I am saying the opposite. Having a goal, in Eliezer’s sense, is contrary to being intelligent. That is, doing everything you do for the sake of one thing and only one thing, and not being capable of doing anything else, is the behavior of an idiotic fanatic, not of an intelligent being.
I said that to be intelligent you need to understand the concept of a goal. That does not mean having one; in fact it means the ability to have many different goals, because your general understanding enables you to see that there is nothing forcing you to pursue one particular goal fanatically.
Do you mean how do you decide which goal to choose? Many different causes. For example if someone tells you that something is good, you might do it, just because you trust them and they told you it was good. They don’t even have to say what goal it will accomplish, other than the fact that it will be something good.
Note that when you do that, you are not trying to accomplish any particular goal, other than “something good,” which is completely general, and could be paperclips, for all you know, if the person who told you that was a paperclipper, and might be something entirely different.
I am saying the opposite. Having a goal, in Eliezer’s sense, is contrary to being intelligent. That is, doing everything you do for the sake of one thing and only one thing, and not being capable of doing anything else, is the behavior of an idiotic fanatic, not of an intelligent being.
I said that to be intelligent you need to understand the concept of a goal. That does not mean having one; in fact it means the ability to have many different goals, because your general understanding enables you to see that there is nothing forcing you to pursue one particular goal fanatically.
Smells like a homunculus. What guides your reasoning about your goals?
Do you mean how do you decide which goal to choose? Many different causes. For example if someone tells you that something is good, you might do it, just because you trust them and they told you it was good. They don’t even have to say what goal it will accomplish, other than the fact that it will be something good.
Note that when you do that, you are not trying to accomplish any particular goal, other than “something good,” which is completely general, and could be paperclips, for all you know, if the person who told you that was a paperclipper, and might be something entirely different.