Um… no, I don’t think this quite suffices. Not every step needs to have terminal value, or even affective instrumental value.
I didn’t think the grandparent was suggesting that. My interpretation was something like:
Sometimes steps to achieve terminal values do have their own terminal value and you might not realize it without asking, “is this first step worth my time?”
I didn’t think the grandparent was suggesting that. My interpretation was something like:
I would think the better question to ask is “which intermediate steps have terminal value in their own right?”