we have only said that P2B is the convergent instrumental goal. Whenever there are obvious actions that directly lead towards the goal, a planner should take them instead.
Hmm, given your general definition of planning, shouldn’t it include realizations (and their corresponding guided actions) of the form “further thinking about this plan is worse than already acquiring some value now”, so that P2B itself already includes acquiring the terminal goal (and optimizing solely for P2B is thus optimal)?
I guess your idea is “plan to P2B better” means “plan with the sole goal of improving P2B”, so that it’s a “non-value-laden” instrumental goal.
I guess your idea is “plan to P2B better” means “plan with the sole goal of improving P2B”, so that it’s a “non-value-laden” instrumental goal.
Yeah. Here’s another way of putting it: The best way to achieve goal X, for almost all goals X, is to mostly focus on achieving the goal of P2B, and just devote a tiny amount of cognitive effort every once in a while to think about how to achieve X.
Hmm, given your general definition of planning, shouldn’t it include realizations (and their corresponding guided actions) of the form “further thinking about this plan is worse than already acquiring some value now”, so that P2B itself already includes acquiring the terminal goal (and optimizing solely for P2B is thus optimal)?
I guess your idea is “plan to P2B better” means “plan with the sole goal of improving P2B”, so that it’s a “non-value-laden” instrumental goal.
Yeah. Here’s another way of putting it: The best way to achieve goal X, for almost all goals X, is to mostly focus on achieving the goal of P2B, and just devote a tiny amount of cognitive effort every once in a while to think about how to achieve X.