But that’s the thing: it doesn’t matter if the mad scientist is telling the truth; your strategy is still to maximize the number of survivors capable of seeking justice.
See, you think the mad scientist is putting you in a game-theory thought-experiment with a weird symmetry-breakage. I think the mad scientist is putting himself in a game-theory thought-experiment with a weird symmetry-breakage. And people shouldn’t go around doing that!
That’s fine, I guess, but besides the thing that of interest to me. Like, suppose there is no mad scientists, you just randomly stumbled on piece of industrial machinery, that has this property. E.g. it will give random one of you ability to divert it from 5 others to kill another.
Then, in another variant, one of them is at more risk to be singled out, etc.
But that’s the thing: it doesn’t matter if the mad scientist is telling the truth; your strategy is still to maximize the number of survivors capable of seeking justice.
See, you think the mad scientist is putting you in a game-theory thought-experiment with a weird symmetry-breakage. I think the mad scientist is putting himself in a game-theory thought-experiment with a weird symmetry-breakage. And people shouldn’t go around doing that!
That’s fine, I guess, but besides the thing that of interest to me. Like, suppose there is no mad scientists, you just randomly stumbled on piece of industrial machinery, that has this property. E.g. it will give random one of you ability to divert it from 5 others to kill another.
Then, in another variant, one of them is at more risk to be singled out, etc.