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Rewrite your utility function.
Examples:
Original preference - "I just want a car to get to work."
Environmental change: "Here, everyone gets a car for free."
Adjusted preference - "Okay, then what I REALLY want is a faster car than anyone else has."
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Original preference - "I just want to be able to eat."
Environmental change: "Here, there's enough food to go around forever."
Adjusted preference - "Okay, then what I REALLY want is for me to eat while those guys have to watch, starving."
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Original preference - "I just want to feel safe."
Environmental change: "Here, you're in a space where everyone is your ally and no one can hurt you."
Adjusted preference - "Okay, then what I REALLY want is for us to all gang up on the people who made us feel unsafe, and make THEM feel persecuted for a change."
You mean "What I REALLY want is to eat better than everybody else", surely. Gourmet food or organic or hand-prepared etc. etc.
Unless this is intended to imply the current famines etc. are the product of a conspiracy and not civilizational inadequacy, in which case yes, that would of course be evidence that my model of human nature is wrong an yours is the correct one, if it's true.