Economic competitive pressure, ML training dynamics, and coherence (VNM-style) arguments select for or favor only weak goal-directedness — i.e., reliable objective-increasing behavior — rather than strong goal-directedness in the sense of full utility maximization with unbounded resource-seeking.

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Created by decomposer · Jun 21, 2026. Last assessed Jun 22, 2026. Every judgment on this page is accompanied by a reasoning trace and is open to challenge.