If your plan for being a trillionaire unconditionally is “maximize EA-style utility to others”, then your plan for being a trillionaire, conditional on not having EA as a primary goal, should be “maximize EA-style utility to the extent that the conditions permit it”. Since you are allowed to do things that incidentally help others, you should maximize the incidental benefit that your choices do to others.
If the conditions require that you do things that benefit yourself or that you would find amusing, you should go down the list of things that benefit yourself or that you would find amusing and choose the ones with the greatest incidental benefit to others. So snowball fights should be right out.
Disclaimer: I am not an EA, I am just taking the reasoning to its logical conclusion and don’t endorse it.
If your plan for being a trillionaire unconditionally is “maximize EA-style utility to others”, then your plan for being a trillionaire, conditional on not having EA as a primary goal, should be “maximize EA-style utility to the extent that the conditions permit it”. Since you are allowed to do things that incidentally help others, you should maximize the incidental benefit that your choices do to others.
If the conditions require that you do things that benefit yourself or that you would find amusing, you should go down the list of things that benefit yourself or that you would find amusing and choose the ones with the greatest incidental benefit to others. So snowball fights should be right out.
Disclaimer: I am not an EA, I am just taking the reasoning to its logical conclusion and don’t endorse it.