Coordination: a) To do more win-win stuff. b) To band against some outgroup (win-win-lose).
Selfish genes: E.g., your genes make you care about your family directly, as they are carrying your genes.
Empathy: E.g., just thinking about how being tortured sucks so much makes someone want to stop others from being tortured.
Signaling and reputation: E.g., having a reputation for being fair can give you power and status. Inversely, having a reputation for dishonesty can close a lot of opportunities.
Insurance: Reducing variance of outcomes (e.g., bats sharing food).
Hardwired assumptions: E.g., incest leads to flawed children.
Fear of punishment: E.g., murder probably won’t go unanswered.
Rewards of subserviency: E.g., respecting high-status people is not without benefits.
Power/status games: Enforcing norms can increase your own status and decrease others’.
Optimizing trade-offs for personal benefits: E.g., net-neutrality is good for middle-class people, bad for poor people. “Bravery debates” might fall under this umbrella as well.
Instinctual game-theoretic strategies: E.g., people like having more control and agency (“freedom”). Note that this is different from coordination (coordination is a subset of this); A lot of these strategies are win-lose.
Abdicating responsibility: E.g., the current fiasco of Covid vaccines. People prefer passive harm to risky interventions because any activity brings responsibility.
What more can you think of? (Of course, a lot of these have some overlap.)
My unbundling of morality
Inspired by seeing Morality as “Coordination”, vs “Altruism”.
Coordination: a) To do more win-win stuff. b) To band against some outgroup (win-win-lose).
Selfish genes: E.g., your genes make you care about your family directly, as they are carrying your genes.
Empathy: E.g., just thinking about how being tortured sucks so much makes someone want to stop others from being tortured.
Signaling and reputation: E.g., having a reputation for being fair can give you power and status. Inversely, having a reputation for dishonesty can close a lot of opportunities.
Insurance: Reducing variance of outcomes (e.g., bats sharing food).
Hardwired assumptions: E.g., incest leads to flawed children.
Fear of punishment: E.g., murder probably won’t go unanswered.
Rewards of subserviency: E.g., respecting high-status people is not without benefits.
Power/status games: Enforcing norms can increase your own status and decrease others’.
Optimizing trade-offs for personal benefits: E.g., net-neutrality is good for middle-class people, bad for poor people. “Bravery debates” might fall under this umbrella as well.
Instinctual game-theoretic strategies: E.g., people like having more control and agency (“freedom”). Note that this is different from coordination (coordination is a subset of this); A lot of these strategies are win-lose.
Abdicating responsibility: E.g., the current fiasco of Covid vaccines. People prefer passive harm to risky interventions because any activity brings responsibility.
What more can you think of? (Of course, a lot of these have some overlap.)