I found the cake-dividing and roommate algorithms promising. If I’m in situations in the future that seem isomorphic, I’ll be sure to do some research to try and find a fair division method that’s most likely to make everyone feel they got what’s coming to them.
But as far as how to cultivate the virtue of fairness… I dunno. The best I came up with was to be much more cautious about my self-assessment of how fair I’m being if I have skin in the game. I should definitely assume that my brain is going to be feeding me some good reasons why fairness and my self interest happen to coincide again.
Some of the experiments suggest “hacks” that might help (e.g. sometimes people engaged in “fairer” dictator-style divisions if there was a mirror in the room with them when they made the division) but I don’t have a good feel for how reliable those would be generally.
Don’t bother to google how to become more fair unless you’re in the market for skin cream.
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I found the cake-dividing and roommate algorithms promising. If I’m in situations in the future that seem isomorphic, I’ll be sure to do some research to try and find a fair division method that’s most likely to make everyone feel they got what’s coming to them.
But as far as how to cultivate the virtue of fairness… I dunno. The best I came up with was to be much more cautious about my self-assessment of how fair I’m being if I have skin in the game. I should definitely assume that my brain is going to be feeding me some good reasons why fairness and my self interest happen to coincide again.
Some of the experiments suggest “hacks” that might help (e.g. sometimes people engaged in “fairer” dictator-style divisions if there was a mirror in the room with them when they made the division) but I don’t have a good feel for how reliable those would be generally.
Don’t bother to google how to become more fair unless you’re in the market for skin cream.