If acquiring bacon was your ONLY terminal goal, then yes, it would be irrational not to do absolutely everything you could to maximize your expected bacon. However, most people have more than just one terminal goal. You seem to be using ‘terminal goal’ to mean ‘a goal more important than any other’. Trouble is, no one else is using it this way.
EDIT: Actually, it seems to me that you’re using ‘terminal goal’ to mean something analogous to a terminal node in a tree search (if you can reach that node, you’re done). No one else is using it that way either.
Feel free to offer the correc definition. But note that you came define it as overridable, since non terminal goals are already defined that way.
There is no evidence that people have one or more terminal goals . At least you need to offer a definition such that multiple TGs don’t collide, and are distinguishable from non TGs.
If acquiring bacon was your ONLY terminal goal, then yes, it would be irrational not to do absolutely everything you could to maximize your expected bacon. However, most people have more than just one terminal goal. You seem to be using ‘terminal goal’ to mean ‘a goal more important than any other’. Trouble is, no one else is using it this way.
EDIT: Actually, it seems to me that you’re using ‘terminal goal’ to mean something analogous to a terminal node in a tree search (if you can reach that node, you’re done). No one else is using it that way either.
Feel free to offer the correc definition. But note that you came define it as overridable, since non terminal goals are already defined that way.
There is no evidence that people have one or more terminal goals . At least you need to offer a definition such that multiple TGs don’t collide, and are distinguishable from non TGs.
Where are you getting these requirements from?