I’m not sure I understand the hypothesis. Surely you are not suggesting that people signal their adherence to consequentialism rather than deontological versions of ethics as a way of convincing rational agents to trust them.
I think they signal deontological ethics (cached rules), whatever their internal moral engine actually uses. “I am predictable, you can trust me not to defect!” I suspect it ties into ingroup identification as well.
I need to write up my presently half-baked notions as a discussion post, probably after rereading the metaethics and ethical injunctions sequences in case it’s already covered.
I’m not sure I understand the hypothesis. Surely you are not suggesting that people signal their adherence to consequentialism rather than deontological versions of ethics as a way of convincing rational agents to trust them.
I think they signal deontological ethics (cached rules), whatever their internal moral engine actually uses. “I am predictable, you can trust me not to defect!” I suspect it ties into ingroup identification as well.
I need to write up my presently half-baked notions as a discussion post, probably after rereading the metaethics and ethical injunctions sequences in case it’s already covered.