Maybe some aversion can be justified because of differences in empirical beliefs and to reduce risks from motivated reasoning, and typical mind fallacy or paternalism, leading to kinds of tragedies of the commons, e.g. everyone exploiting one another mistakenly believing it’s in people’s best interests overall but it’s not, so people are made worse off overall. And if people are more averse to exploiting or otherwise harming others, they’re more trustworthy and cooperation is easier.
But, there are very probably cases where very minor exploitation for very significant benefits (including preventing very significant harms) would be worth it.
Agreed. I haven’t worked out the details but I imagine the long-run ideal competitive decision apps would resemble Kantianism and resemble preference-rule-utilitarianism, but be importantly different from each. Idk. I’d love for someone to work out the details!
Maybe some aversion can be justified because of differences in empirical beliefs and to reduce risks from motivated reasoning, and typical mind fallacy or paternalism, leading to kinds of tragedies of the commons, e.g. everyone exploiting one another mistakenly believing it’s in people’s best interests overall but it’s not, so people are made worse off overall. And if people are more averse to exploiting or otherwise harming others, they’re more trustworthy and cooperation is easier.
But, there are very probably cases where very minor exploitation for very significant benefits (including preventing very significant harms) would be worth it.
Agreed. I haven’t worked out the details but I imagine the long-run ideal competitive decision apps would resemble Kantianism and resemble preference-rule-utilitarianism, but be importantly different from each. Idk. I’d love for someone to work out the details!