self modifying to the point where these answers are as consistent as possible in the largest subset of scenarios as possible…
...weighted by the likelihood of those scenarios, and the severities of the likely consequences of behaving inconsistently in those scenarios.
Most problems of this sort are phrased in ways that render the situation epistemicly unreachable, which makes their likelihood so low as to be worth ignoring.
Re: your side note… am I correct in understanding you to mean that you find imagining killing a fat man less uncomfortable than imagining killing a healthy young traveler?
...weighted by the likelihood of those scenarios, and the severities of the likely consequences of behaving inconsistently in those scenarios.
Most problems of this sort are phrased in ways that render the situation epistemicly unreachable, which makes their likelihood so low as to be worth ignoring.
Re: your side note… am I correct in understanding you to mean that you find imagining killing a fat man less uncomfortable than imagining killing a healthy young traveler?