Maybe that’s the point. Maybe the way we evolved to demonstrate group loyalty and therefore, trustworthiness, was to forfeit our rationality as a rite of initiation. We agree to be irrationally loyal.
If so, can’t we dispense with that by now?
I like Drescher’s derivation of a logical foundation for the Golden Rule even when it benefits no one to abide by it. It’s essentially the same logic that leads one to forgo the $1,000 in Newcomb’s problem.
If I know you’re committed to rationality, then I can trust you to abide by the golden rule.
Maybe that’s the point. Maybe the way we evolved to demonstrate group loyalty and therefore, trustworthiness, was to forfeit our rationality as a rite of initiation. We agree to be irrationally loyal.
If so, can’t we dispense with that by now?
I like Drescher’s derivation of a logical foundation for the Golden Rule even when it benefits no one to abide by it. It’s essentially the same logic that leads one to forgo the $1,000 in Newcomb’s problem.
If I know you’re committed to rationality, then I can trust you to abide by the golden rule.