Semi-correct due to further information that you should infer from reality or you would have gotten explicitly with the correct answer of asking for more information. A community has certain expectations when you join it and is likely to take punitive action if you violate those expectations.
As a hint, how is 5 different from 2? Is 2 not rational or not in your best interest?
A community has certain expectations when you join it and is likely to take punitive action if you violate those expectations.
That consequence should factor into your reasoning of "what is in my best interest?", in the same way why you don't usually want to perform petty crimes IRL.
As a hint, how is 5 different from 2? Is 2 not rational or not in your best interest?
I read 2 as "I will perform the most rational actions among the subset of those that lead to a net positive for the community", whereas 5 takes away everything from 'among' onwards.
Premise: There exists a community whose top-most goal is to maximally and fairly fulfill the goals of all of its members. They are approximately as rational as the 50th percentile of this community. They politely invite you to join. You are in no imminent danger.
Do you:
Premise: The only rational answer given the current information is the last one.
What I’m attempting to eventually proveThe hypothesis that I'm investigating iswhether"Option 2 is the only long-term rational answer". (Yes, this directly challenges several major current premises so my arguments are going to have to be totally clear. I am fully aware of the rather extensive Metaethics sequence and the vast majority of what it links to and will not intentionally assume any contradictory premises without clear statement and argument.)It might be an interesting and useful exercise for the reader to stop and specify what information they would be looking next for before continuing. It would be nice if an ordered list could be developed in the comments.
Obvious Questions:
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