If it’s clearer with an example, suppose that the first action on the [most probable to save the world] path happens to get me a million dollars. Suppose that I take this action.
Should we then say that I did it “for personal gain”? That I can only have done it “for personal gain”?
This seems clearly foolish. That I happen to have gained from an instrumentally-useful-for-the-world action, does not imply that this motivated me. The same applies if I only think this path is the best for the world.
If it’s clearer with an example, suppose that the first action on the [most probable to save the world] path happens to get me a million dollars. Suppose that I take this action.
Should we then say that I did it “for personal gain”?
That I can only have done it “for personal gain”?
This seems clearly foolish. That I happen to have gained from an instrumentally-useful-for-the-world action, does not imply that this motivated me. The same applies if I only think this path is the best for the world.