The way you operate, among other things, effects how things would turn out if you were doing something like playing against copies of yourself. ‘Morally’ (depending on what you think is moral) can perhaps be described a subset of ways of operating. Less ‘a connection to morality’ and more ‘does morality have certain optimality* properties?’, focusing on figuring out said properties and then drawing some comparisons to morality.
The way you operate, among other things, effects how things would turn out if you were doing something like playing against copies of yourself. ‘Morally’ (depending on what you think is moral) can perhaps be described a subset of ways of operating. Less ‘a connection to morality’ and more ‘does morality have certain optimality* properties?’, focusing on figuring out said properties and then drawing some comparisons to morality.
*Hence the game-theoretic issues.