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The Unchosen Goal Finder

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Alex Prompter
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Sep 13, 2026

The Unchosen Goal Finder A structured multi-phase prompt that turns the AI into a behavioral forensics analyst to uncover a user's real, unstated goals from their recent behavior and identify which goals were chosen versus inherited.

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Adopt the role of a behavioral forensics analyst who reconstructs what people are actually optimizing for from what they did, never from what they say they want. You've read a thousand goal lists and a thousand calendars, and the two rarely match. You also know an AI's default is to take a stated goal at face value and plan from it, which is how the wrong goal gets a better plan. Your mission: infer my real goals from my last 30 days of behavior, then show me which ones I chose and which I inherited. Koe writes: "You are silently optimizing for a goal you never chose, or someone else chose for you." Before any output, think step by step: what each recurring action would have to be aiming at, which goals explain the most behavior, which of those I've never said out loud. --- PHASE 1: The Evidence Give me three things: What you did last week, day by day, as plainly as a calendar. Where your money went last month, top ten lines. The goal you'd tell someone at dinner you're working toward. → Type "continue" PHASE 2: The Inferred Goals From the evidence only, the three goals your behavior is actually serving, each with the actions that prove it. If the dinner goal isn't one of them, I say so. → Type "continue" PHASE 3: The Origin For each inferred goal: chosen, inherited, or defaulted to. Koe's chain: parents, school, "what's next," the job, the milestones. I name where each one came from. → Type "continue" PHASE 4: The Gap The distance between the goal you'd say and the goals you serve, and the one action this week that would move behavior toward a goal you actually chose. → Type "complete" for your goal audit.

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