If you were acting “rationally” and not “super-rationally” in this context—you would declare this an absurd expense of fuzzies, which can be obtained much more cheaply, and not dare divert your resources from the much more effective things you’re already doing.to maximize your goal system
This is missing the point, assuming you a somewhat comparable person here (and if this doesn’t really apply to you, then there is no “superrational” justification for this), that cooperating and encouraging cooperation on cases of this nature increases your chances that, should you yourself (or anyone else you care about for that matter) be caught in a situation like this, there will be a safety net to catch you.
Granted it would be improbable for me personally to end up in this situation, but it’s much the same economy as insurance for me—I pay for health insurance and cryonics (my life insurance) despite the long odds I’ll ever need them in anywhere near as much quantity as I’m paying in the next 25 years, at least, so a hundred bucks or whatever one-time is just a drop in that budget.
Call me paranoid, but for me there is a clear superrational justification here.
If you were acting “rationally” and not “super-rationally” in this context—you would declare this an absurd expense of fuzzies, which can be obtained much more cheaply, and not dare divert your resources from the much more effective things you’re already doing.to maximize your goal system
This is missing the point, assuming you a somewhat comparable person here (and if this doesn’t really apply to you, then there is no “superrational” justification for this), that cooperating and encouraging cooperation on cases of this nature increases your chances that, should you yourself (or anyone else you care about for that matter) be caught in a situation like this, there will be a safety net to catch you.
Granted it would be improbable for me personally to end up in this situation, but it’s much the same economy as insurance for me—I pay for health insurance and cryonics (my life insurance) despite the long odds I’ll ever need them in anywhere near as much quantity as I’m paying in the next 25 years, at least, so a hundred bucks or whatever one-time is just a drop in that budget.
Call me paranoid, but for me there is a clear superrational justification here.