Maybe. Or maybe the wish itself is about climbing the mountain, just like it says, and the other benefits (which you can unwind all the way back to evolutionary ones) are more like part of the history of the wish.
Quite possibly, but without SOME framework of evaluating wishes, it’s hard to know which wishes (even of oneself) to support and which to fight/deprioritize.
Humans (or at least this one) often have desires or ideas that aren’t, when considered, actually good ideas. Also, humans (again, at least this one) have conflicting desires, only a subset of which CAN be pursued.
It’s not perfect, and it doesn’t work when extended too far into the tails (because nothing does), but consequentialism is one of the better options for judging one’s desires and picking which to pursue.
This is tricky. In the post I mentioned “playing”, where you do stuff without caring about any goal, and most play doesn’t lead to anything interesting. But it’s amazing how many of humanity’s advances were made in this non-goal-directed, playing mode. This is mentioned for example in Feynman’s book, the bit about the wobbling plate.
Maybe. Or maybe the wish itself is about climbing the mountain, just like it says, and the other benefits (which you can unwind all the way back to evolutionary ones) are more like part of the history of the wish.
Quite possibly, but without SOME framework of evaluating wishes, it’s hard to know which wishes (even of oneself) to support and which to fight/deprioritize.
Humans (or at least this one) often have desires or ideas that aren’t, when considered, actually good ideas. Also, humans (again, at least this one) have conflicting desires, only a subset of which CAN be pursued.
It’s not perfect, and it doesn’t work when extended too far into the tails (because nothing does), but consequentialism is one of the better options for judging one’s desires and picking which to pursue.
This is tricky. In the post I mentioned “playing”, where you do stuff without caring about any goal, and most play doesn’t lead to anything interesting. But it’s amazing how many of humanity’s advances were made in this non-goal-directed, playing mode. This is mentioned for example in Feynman’s book, the bit about the wobbling plate.