Jef,

> In what sense do human have pre-programmed super-goals?

Genom.

> It seems to me that our evolved "programming" is about as far from a super-goal as 
> can
> be conceived,

What is "evolved programming"?
"Conceived" by who?

> responding in ways that provided superior fitness in the
> ancestral environment but certainly not forward-looking.

"Responding" to who?

Super-goals are not "looking" at all.
Goals themselves don't have conscious.

> I can't see how this concept of a *system* modifying its supergoals even
> makes sense.

I agree: It doesn't have sense to modify its own supergoals.

> Indeed, the concept of a supergoal doesn't make sense, except from a
> point of view at a higher level of context than the system itself.

Disagree.
Why do you think that concept of supergoal doesn't make sense for the
intelligent system with supergoals?




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