You can’t duplicate this protective effect by trying to be clever and calculate the course of “highest utility”. The expected utility just takes into account the things you know to expect. It really is amazing, looking over my history, the extent to which my ethics put me in a recoverable position from my unanticipated, fundamental mistakes, the things completely outside my plans and beliefs.
You acted as though you anticipated the unanticipated?
Probably either: you were lucky; your utility function isn’t what you consciously thought it was; - or you have supernatural moral powers.
You acted as though you anticipated the unanticipated?
Probably either: you were lucky; your utility function isn’t what you consciously thought it was; - or you have supernatural moral powers.