Rather, you are under-thinking it. Saying that we ought do what is right is trivial; that's just what "ought" is.
The joke is that any choice is rational, hence any choice is right. — Banno
My sense of fairness is worth more that $1 or even $10. If it were $10,000, that would be a different thing. On the other hand, telling someone to go fry ice when he tries to stiff me for thousands might be worth it. — T Clark
Rationality implies certain shared epistemic standards. Those standards have to be at least enduring and widespread, if not permanent and universal, or they would have no meaning. Further, they cannot be inviolate, or else they would be superfluous. It follows then that not every decision is necessarily rational.
Further, "right" is not the same as "rational." Rationality is normative, but it does not represent the full extent of normativity. — SophistiCat
This trivializes rationality and equivocates about normativity. — SophistiCat
Further, "right" is not the same as "rational." — SophistiCat
Do you mean to say that most of our decisions are too trivial and petty to be measured by the lofty standards of rationality? — SophistiCat
This is a classic example of a simple game when done with people has far more to it that simple math would apply. The obvous place where it went wrong is here:What this shows is that ubiquitously, folk do not make decisions on the basis of rationally maximising their self-interest. Some other factor intervenes. What that is, is open to further research. — Banno
. To keep the money, I must divide it with you. I could give you a dollar and keep nine, and we would both be better off - you get a dollar that you would otherwise not receive, I get nine dollars. — Banno
Yep, that is what game theory says.Assume a large number of players, choosing randomly. Then the average will be 6. Half six is 3, so one should say 3. But folk will think of this, and say 3; so I should say 2 (1.5 rounded); but then everyone will say the same, so I shoudl say 1.
As will you. Everyone wins. — Banno
he would have won — ssu
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