This is confusing. Does your use of violence change your intended destination, or does it just exert certain optimization pressures on future world-states, as do all of your other actions?
Read the (long) linked-to article from which the quote stems. Basically the point is that using violence to achieve a goal teaches the people involved that violence is an effective, legitimate way to achieve goals—and at some later point they will invariably have conflicting goals.
I’m not sure there’s a useful distinction between those two options. Your future selves are part of the future world-states that it’s exerting pressure on, and not exempt from that pressure.
This is confusing. Does your use of violence change your intended destination, or does it just exert certain optimization pressures on future world-states, as do all of your other actions?
Read the (long) linked-to article from which the quote stems. Basically the point is that using violence to achieve a goal teaches the people involved that violence is an effective, legitimate way to achieve goals—and at some later point they will invariably have conflicting goals.
See also: Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I’m not sure there’s a useful distinction between those two options. Your future selves are part of the future world-states that it’s exerting pressure on, and not exempt from that pressure.