Well then,
you should want to be powerful yourself - so certainly go and exploit the society:)
the powerful are really not paying for it, and if they are it's completely peanuts to them. If you are screwing up anyone by so-called leeching, it's the middle class:) You are not bad to "them", they don't care about you one way or another.
I am rich and powerful (compared to you, at least), and I hereby command you to do it:)
Heh. I'm coming back to this, now that I'm in a different mindset.
you should want to be powerful yourself - so certainly go and exploit the society:)
Unfortunately, that leads to a "thrashing" unstable loop, because this:
Basically, the strong are morally justified - in a sense, morally compelled - to dominate and torment the weak, because they can. And the weak deserve every minute of it, because fuck them.
is cached shorthand for the actual system, which is "the powerful dictate morality".
In general, "the powerful dictate mo...
You understand Bayes' Theorem. You enter into a situation with an intuitive "common sense" prior. You observe the situation, and then you shut up and multiply.
And then you go to update, you compute the desired behavior to maximize utility... and some cognitive module buried in your brain says "no".
Example:
I realize I need a physical examination. I have no rational reason to fear going to the doctor. I am, in fact, acutely aware that my fear of going to the doctor is based on a fear that they will find something wrong that I can't afford to fix, but the truth is already so. So I bite the bullet, make an appointment, and then at the scheduled time I get in the car and drive to the doctor's office.
And then I just keep driving past the doctor's office, turn around and go home.
I tell myself that if I'm not going, I should call the doctor to avoid a $100 no-show fee, but I don't.
And then I get home, and I tell myself that that was dumb, and that I need to update my behavior - and that physically punishing myself for not going to the doctor is not an efficient use of my energy.
So I punch my hand through a mirror.
NOW, finally, I have an excuse to go to the doctor - so I wrap my hand in bandages and go back to bed, instead.
What do you do when your computed probabilities and utility function have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on your actual behavior?