But “COVID-19 cases decreasing” is probably not your ultimate goal: more likely, it’s an instrumental goal for something like “prevent humans from dying” or “help society” or whatever… in other words, it’s a proxy for some other value. And if you walk back the chain of goals enough, you are likely to arrive at something that isn’t well defined anymore.
But “COVID-19 cases decreasing” is probably not your ultimate goal: more likely, it’s an instrumental goal for something like “prevent humans from dying” or “help society” or whatever… in other words, it’s a proxy for some other value. And if you walk back the chain of goals enough, you are likely to arrive at something that isn’t well defined anymore.