Humans, in the examples provided, are (I think) applying something like the logic “what if everyone did this” to assess the morality of an action. In my experience that is quite a common way of reasoning about morality, it was presented to me as a child as “common sense”, and many years later I learned it was a big deal to Kant , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative (I am really curious if it was already “common sense” before Kant or if he added it to the common sense pile). But all of this is used when discussing the morality of an action.
As I understand it (which I don’t) acausal decision theory is aiming to maximise the effectiveness of actions, not assess their morality. I don’t know if this drives a wedge into things or not.
Humans, in the examples provided, are (I think) applying something like the logic “what if everyone did this” to assess the morality of an action. In my experience that is quite a common way of reasoning about morality, it was presented to me as a child as “common sense”, and many years later I learned it was a big deal to Kant , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative (I am really curious if it was already “common sense” before Kant or if he added it to the common sense pile). But all of this is used when discussing the morality of an action.
As I understand it (which I don’t) acausal decision theory is aiming to maximise the effectiveness of actions, not assess their morality. I don’t know if this drives a wedge into things or not.
Boy do I have a decision theory for you! ;-)