> An argument against it is that there are clearly people driven by the desire for "more", with no visible upper bound. The real problem is that the distincti

> An argument against it is that there are clearly people driven by the desire for "more", with no visible upper bound. The real problem is that the distinction is meaningless. These people could just be described as "minimizing the risk of running out of money" (or paperclips, or whatever). Any "maximizing system" is isomorphic with a "minimizing system" using the inverse of the metric.