Nah, you can care about someones utility function instrumentally. In fact I think that’s the way most people care about it most of the time, and have no reliable evidence to suggest otherwise.
I meant ‘caring’ as in direct influence of their utility on your utility (or, at least, the perception of their utility on your utility), conditionally independent of what their utility results in. If you take ‘care’ to simply mean ‘caring about the outcomes’ then yes you’re right. Saying that all people are that way seems quite a strong statement, on par with declaring all humans to be psychopaths.
Nah, you can care about someones utility function instrumentally. In fact I think that’s the way most people care about it most of the time, and have no reliable evidence to suggest otherwise.
I meant ‘caring’ as in direct influence of their utility on your utility (or, at least, the perception of their utility on your utility), conditionally independent of what their utility results in. If you take ‘care’ to simply mean ‘caring about the outcomes’ then yes you’re right. Saying that all people are that way seems quite a strong statement, on par with declaring all humans to be psychopaths.
So you meant instrumentally in the first place. I misuderstood you, so retracted both the comment and the downvote.
Definitely not. Psychopaths are far more anomalous than selfish people. Also, I said most people most of the time, not all people all the time.
I suppose the word ‘psychopath’ is itself problematic and ill-defined, so fair enough.