People are only in favor of shortcuts in some areas—generally, where the “point” of that reward isn’t the person’s own goal. So, people will use contraceptives if they want to have sex for pleasure, even if the reward exists to make them reproduce (to anthropomorphize evolution). People might use drugs to feel okay because they are trying to feel okay, not accomplish goals by feeling okay (only an example). On the other hand, many (most?) people interested in, say, solving world hunger would reject a pill that gives them a false sense of having solved world hunger, because they’re trying to accomplish an external goal, rather than induce the mental state associated with accomplishing that goal. At least, all that’s according to my understanding at this point.
People are only in favor of shortcuts in some areas—generally, where the “point” of that reward isn’t the person’s own goal. So, people will use contraceptives if they want to have sex for pleasure, even if the reward exists to make them reproduce (to anthropomorphize evolution). People might use drugs to feel okay because they are trying to feel okay, not accomplish goals by feeling okay (only an example). On the other hand, many (most?) people interested in, say, solving world hunger would reject a pill that gives them a false sense of having solved world hunger, because they’re trying to accomplish an external goal, rather than induce the mental state associated with accomplishing that goal. At least, all that’s according to my understanding at this point.