"So to do things that risk deterring many others in society (at a population-wide level) from following utilitarian ethics is to risk immense harm".
For a while, I was thinking about trying to write an economic model of this sort of thing with repeated games, collective reputation, and evolutionary dynamics based on the fraction of util…
"So to do things that risk deterring many others in society (at a population-wide level) from following utilitarian ethics is to risk immense harm".
For a while, I was thinking about trying to write an economic model of this sort of thing with repeated games, collective reputation, and evolutionary dynamics based on the fraction of utilitarians in society (and/or the frequency of their 'transgressive' behavior) vis-a-vis other 'types'. It didn't seem worth pursuing at the time, but maybe could interesting at some point.
Some relevant stuff I looked at though in case anyone cares:
"So to do things that risk deterring many others in society (at a population-wide level) from following utilitarian ethics is to risk immense harm".
For a while, I was thinking about trying to write an economic model of this sort of thing with repeated games, collective reputation, and evolutionary dynamics based on the fraction of utilitarians in society (and/or the frequency of their 'transgressive' behavior) vis-a-vis other 'types'. It didn't seem worth pursuing at the time, but maybe could interesting at some point.
Some relevant stuff I looked at though in case anyone cares:
- Jonathan Levin on Collective Reputation https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/dynamics-collective-reputation
- Ingela Alger "Evolution and Kantian morality" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825616300410