The notion of “Approval Reward” reminded me of Adam Smith’s TheTheory of Moral Sentiments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments ) where he says something like “we aren’t motivated to be praised, we are motivated to be praiseworthy”, and that this roundabout moral motivation depends on us (sociopaths excluded) generating a kind of inner impartial spectator
Dipping into this neglected book by Adam Smith may help alignment! Thanks
The notion of “Approval Reward” reminded me of Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments ) where he says something like “we aren’t motivated to be praised, we are motivated to be praiseworthy”, and that this roundabout moral motivation depends on us (sociopaths excluded) generating a kind of inner impartial spectator
Dipping into this neglected book by Adam Smith may help alignment! Thanks