I disagree with your first claim (The statement is too brief and ambiguous to say what definitively what it “is about”), but I don’t want to argue it. Let’s leave that kind of interpretationism to the scholastic philosophers, who spend vast amounts of effort figuring out what various famous ancients “really meant”.
The principle “Your goals will be better fulfilled if other agents have them” is very interesting, and I’ll have to think about it.
I disagree with your first claim (The statement is too brief and ambiguous to say what definitively what it “is about”), but I don’t want to argue it. Let’s leave that kind of interpretationism to the scholastic philosophers, who spend vast amounts of effort figuring out what various famous ancients “really meant”.
The principle “Your goals will be better fulfilled if other agents have them” is very interesting, and I’ll have to think about it.