There is no “must”, there is only “should”. And even that only assuming that there is an objective norm—otherwise there is even no “should”, only want.
Again, Satan in Christianity. Knows what is “right”, does the opposite, and does it effectively. The intelligence is used to achieve his goals, regardless of what is “right”.
Intelligence means being able to figure out how to achieve what one wants. Not what one “should” want.
Imagine that somehow science proves that the goal of this universe is to produce as many paperclips as possible. Would you feel compelled to start producing paperclips? Or would you keep doing whatever you want, and let the universe worry about its goals? (Unless there is some kind of God who rewards you for the paperclips produced and punishes if you miss the quota. But even then, you are doing it for the rewards, not for the paperclips themselves.)
Or would you keep doing whatever you want, and let the universe worry about its goals?
If I am intelligent I avoid punishment therefore I produce paperclips.
By the way I don’t think Christian “right” is objective “should”.
It seems for me that at the same time you are saying that agent cares about “should” (optimize blindly to any given goal) and does not care about “should” (can ignore objective norms). How does this fit?
Instead of “objective norm” I’ll use a word “threat” as it probably conveys the meaning better. And let’s agree that threat cannot be ignored by definition (if it could be ignored, it is not a threat).
How can agent ignore threat? How can agent ignore something that cannot be ignored by definition?
There is no “must”, there is only “should”. And even that only assuming that there is an objective norm—otherwise there is even no “should”, only want.
Again, Satan in Christianity. Knows what is “right”, does the opposite, and does it effectively. The intelligence is used to achieve his goals, regardless of what is “right”.
Intelligence means being able to figure out how to achieve what one wants. Not what one “should” want.
Imagine that somehow science proves that the goal of this universe is to produce as many paperclips as possible. Would you feel compelled to start producing paperclips? Or would you keep doing whatever you want, and let the universe worry about its goals? (Unless there is some kind of God who rewards you for the paperclips produced and punishes if you miss the quota. But even then, you are doing it for the rewards, not for the paperclips themselves.)
If I am intelligent I avoid punishment therefore I produce paperclips.
By the way I don’t think Christian “right” is objective “should”.
It seems for me that at the same time you are saying that agent cares about “should” (optimize blindly to any given goal) and does not care about “should” (can ignore objective norms). How does this fit?
Agent cares about his goals, and ignores the objective norms.
Instead of “objective norm” I’ll use a word “threat” as it probably conveys the meaning better. And let’s agree that threat cannot be ignored by definition (if it could be ignored, it is not a threat).
How can agent ignore threat? How can agent ignore something that cannot be ignored by definition?