Wouldn’t the fact that you’re even considering pushing the button(because if only a psychopath would push the button then it follows that a non-psychopath would never push the button) indicate that you are a psychopath and therefore you should not push the button?
Another way to put it is:
If you are a psychopath and you push the button, you die. If you are not a psychopath and you push the button, pushing the button would make you a psychopath(since only a psychopath would push), and therefore you die.
What I’m interested in is whether this method is applicable to social situations as well. I am not a naturally social person, but have studied how people interact and general social behaviors well enough that I can create a simulation of a “socially acceptable helltank”.
I already have mental triggers (what I like to call “scripts”) in place for a simulation of my rational mind—or rather a portion of my rational mind kept in isolation from bias and metaphorically disconnected from the other parts of my mind to override my “main” portion of my mind in case the main portion becomes irrational at some point, similar to a backup system overriding a corrupted main system.
Until today, however, I have not thought of using them to simulate social skills. I suppose I might eventually spread out a bunch of simulations, what eli_sennesh called a Parliament of different aspects of your personality in his cancelled post, in order to guide my decision making in certain situations, with a “master aspect” (the aforementioned rational simulation) controlling when to give an aspect override privileges.
Still a very good post. Thank you for it.