Eneasz comments on Seeking advice on a moral dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eneasz 10 May 2011 07:18:57AM -1 points [-]

Actually, while I still hold to my below reply, I'd like to add that I find The Prisoner's Dilemma to be the foundational question of morality. The purpose of morality is to persuade/coerce everyone to always cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma situations (simplification, but that's the essence). If you find money in a shared living space, cooperation = trying to return it, defecting = keeping it. Unless there's extreme justifying circumstances (which you shouldn't trust anyway, we are all running on corrupted hardware, better to let a disinterested 3rd party decide what counts) you should cooperate.

Comment author: Document 15 May 2011 09:38:18PM *  0 points [-]

There's (at least) also the question of what structures and processes count as other players in the dilemma, but you did say it was a simplification.