Yes and no. You could just decide on some definition of terminal goals or ultimate criteria, and ask the genie what we should do to achieve the goals as you define them. But it’s up to you (or someone else who you trust) to come up with that definition first, and the only “objective” criteria for what that definition should be like is something along the lines of “am I happy with this definition and its likely consequences”.
and the only “objective” criteria for what that definition should be like is something along the lines of “am I happy with this definition and its likely consequences”.
And you would say that the above doesn’t involve any antecedent criteria upon which this judgement is based, say for determining the value of this or that consequence?
Yes and no. You could just decide on some definition of terminal goals or ultimate criteria, and ask the genie what we should do to achieve the goals as you define them. But it’s up to you (or someone else who you trust) to come up with that definition first, and the only “objective” criteria for what that definition should be like is something along the lines of “am I happy with this definition and its likely consequences”.
And you would say that the above doesn’t involve any antecedent criteria upon which this judgement is based, say for determining the value of this or that consequence?