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I'm a solipsist in the sense that I don't think it makes sense to believe in things that I can't see or touch or hear or deduce the existence of from things that I can see or touch or hear. That seems like realism, to me. It involves solipsist elements only insofar as existence isn't an absolute state but is amenable to probabilities, as a consequence of the fact that probabilities are fundamentally subjective, as is evidence.
I endorse a broad form of selfishness. It makes me happy to make others happy or to see others happy or to know that my actions made others happy. I don't really care to define altruism right now. I don't think that will be relevant?
I have a broad definition of interaction in mind here. If they connect to me through a chain of variables, then that is interaction. I think the more direct the chain the more interaction that is and the more valuable the person becomes, this is why I care more for family members than people in other universes who I will never meet. So, I will interact with the victim and rescue team, under my understanding of interaction. And $1 is cheap. So I help them.