It describes how to compute that-which-should-be-optimized.
As a descriptor that people find useful when analyzing cultures.
Because not being itself my entire utility function doesn’t mean it or related components thereof doesn’t have a significant part in it.
It’s still only marginally useful. For example I don’t believe I have ever used the phrase before and if I have it was because it was necessary to guess the password of a teacher.
Very nearly everything does not happen to be that-which-should-be-optimised.
Then why is “moral progress” a useful concept?
Shoes aren’t that-which-should-be-optimized either, but that doesn’t mean that the concept of shoe is not useful.
It describes how to compute that-which-should-be-optimized.
EDIT: Replied to wrong message. (Curse my android!)
As a descriptor that people find useful when analyzing cultures.
Because not being itself my entire utility function doesn’t mean it or related components thereof doesn’t have a significant part in it.
It’s still only marginally useful. For example I don’t believe I have ever used the phrase before and if I have it was because it was necessary to guess the password of a teacher.
Very nearly everything does not happen to be that-which-should-be-optimised.