Strange7 comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong
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Blatant because-I-felt-like-it speculation: "ethics" is really game theory for agents who share some of their values.
Pretty much. Start with the prior that everyone is a potential future ally, and has just enough information about your plans to cause serious trouble if you give them a reason to (such as those plans being bad for their own interests), and a set of behaviors known colloquially as "not being a dick" are the logical result.