Whether we have a specific story of the future or not, we shouldn’t assume a good outcome. But perhaps you’re saying that we should at least have a vision of a good outcome in mind to steer toward.
Yes.
I think of absolutes as a fallacy (whet in the realm of utility as opposed to truth) -- it means you’re not admitting trade-offs.
I may just not know of any principled ways of forming a set of outcomes to begin with, so that it may be treated as a lottery and so forth.
But it would seem that aesthetics or axiology must still have some role in the formation, since precise and certain truths aren’t known about the future and yet at least some structure seems subjectively required—if not objectively required—through the construction of a (firm but mutable) set of highest outcomes.
So far my best attempts have involved not much more than basic automata concepts for personal identity and future configurations.
Yes.
I may just not know of any principled ways of forming a set of outcomes to begin with, so that it may be treated as a lottery and so forth.
But it would seem that aesthetics or axiology must still have some role in the formation, since precise and certain truths aren’t known about the future and yet at least some structure seems subjectively required—if not objectively required—through the construction of a (firm but mutable) set of highest outcomes.
So far my best attempts have involved not much more than basic automata concepts for personal identity and future configurations.