Terminal value

A terminal value is an ultimate goal, and end-in-itself. In an AI with a utility or reward function, the terminal value is the maximization of that function. (In some of Eliezer Yudkowsky's earlier wrirings, this is called a [[Subgoal stomp|supergoal].)

• Terminal values vs instrumental
• The terminal values of humanity?
  • A partial list
  • The complexity of human values
• The paperclip maximizer and AIXI an examples
• Benevolence as an instrumental and as a terminal value
• Shifts in human terminal values
  • Kantian
  • Other
• Subgoal stomp ("goal displacement")
  • A person wants to get rich to better enjoy life, and because of a total focus on money, becomes a workaholic focused on money for its own sake.
  • Humans as adaptation executors

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Terminal Values and Instrumental Values