Sounds like you’ve written the bottom line of wanting to prove your status to others before you found the excuse of it being important to people to know not to mess with you.
We should not give more status to those who determine the fate of the world because then it will be determined not by those that seek to optimize it but those that seek status.
To measure soul you must pick some anthropic definition. If it’s “who is most desperately-for-precision modeled by onlookers?”, to measure it you acquire omnipotence, model all the onlookers, and check who they look at.
Sounds like you’ve written the bottom line of wanting to prove your status to others before you found the excuse of it being important to people to know not to mess with you.
We should not give more status to those who determine the fate of the world because then it will be determined not by those that seek to optimize it but those that seek status.
To measure soul you must pick some anthropic definition. If it’s “who is most desperately-for-precision modeled by onlookers?”, to measure it you acquire omnipotence, model all the onlookers, and check who they look at.