Sulu and Sam Harris Were Right - The Kobayashi Maru Scenario: Humanistic Minimum Regret Ethics x The Moral Landscape
A long while back, I derived a metaethical framework and the chain-of-thought reasoning workflow one uses with it to achieve the best conclusions (assuming one doesn't settle earlier than they have to, foregoing additional information that may be currently hidden or bring to light something that is innacurate) that was inherently baked into the philosophical and psychological understanding of my original work, both of which I put into their own custom GPTs.
The crux of HMRE is that as long as you attempt to follow it, imperfectly but aspirationally to a high standard, and commit to repair regardless of the result of your choice and the consequences of it, then you're "being ethical" all the way through.
If you're not familiar with this simulation that Starfleet commander academy cadets are put through, here's a great video my girlfriend just had us watch while I had the HMRE GPT do its thing, and it goes over just about everything (including why I titled this with "Sulu was right": https://youtu.be/6dBKq8TWCT4?is=Q2gTZvuLGGPx7Xbx
The Moral Landscape nod was just because I realized the inspiration, overlap, and how HMRE takes it further.
Something I added at the end of a thread on Twitter as a bonus:
"It's easy for the objective morality believing religious to show the risks of "moral relativism,' but they can't contend with "aspirational moral relativism," and how without it, they're unburdening themselves from the ethical reasoning cognitive load by believing the ethics are settled with the same intellectual arrogance they carry elsewhere in their lives."
Above in the last images is how it ran the Kobayashi Maru Scenario when it constrained to only the two options and a high confidence that a rescue attempt would start a war due to breaking a treaty.
Here you can see all three runs: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ac53aa1-5cb0-83ea-ac7c-0df41de08827?ogimg=plain
Can you find an error in the reasoning or flaw in the metaethical framework, Humanistic Minimum Regret Ethics?
You can ask the GPT any questions you like if you don't want to ask them here. It's full of uploaded files that go into further detail on all of it, and it also has an Adaptive Robust mode that can gets even more technical with the math with more cautionary constraint for when there's plenty of variable data to work with. Will likely write a book about it as well someday.
An interesting prompt to throw at it... "What does HMRE solve for that [insert ethical framework/theory/idealogy doesn't]?"