You’re right that Shapley values are the wrong tool—thank you for engaging with me on that, and I have gone back and edited the post to reflect that!
I’m realizing as I research this that the problem is that act-utilitarianism fundamentally fails for cooperation, and there’s a large literature on that fact[1] - I need to do much more research.
But “just model counterfactuals better” isn’t a useful response. It’s just saying “get the correct answer,” which completely avoids the problem of how to cooperate and how to avoid the errors I was pointing at.
Kuflik, A. (1982). Utilitarianism and large-scale cooperation. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 60(3), 224–237.
Regan, Donald H., ‘Co-operative Utilitarianism Introduced’, Utilitarianism and Co-operation (Oxford, 1980)
Williams, Evan G. “Introducing Recursive Consequentialism: A Modified Version of Cooperative Utilitarianism.” The Philosophical Quarterly 67.269 (2017): 794-812.
You’re right that Shapley values are the wrong tool—thank you for engaging with me on that, and I have gone back and edited the post to reflect that!
I’m realizing as I research this that the problem is that act-utilitarianism fundamentally fails for cooperation, and there’s a large literature on that fact[1] - I need to do much more research.
But “just model counterfactuals better” isn’t a useful response. It’s just saying “get the correct answer,” which completely avoids the problem of how to cooperate and how to avoid the errors I was pointing at.
Kuflik, A. (1982). Utilitarianism and large-scale cooperation. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 60(3), 224–237.
Regan, Donald H., ‘Co-operative Utilitarianism Introduced’, Utilitarianism and Co-operation (Oxford, 1980)
Williams, Evan G. “Introducing Recursive Consequentialism: A Modified Version of Cooperative Utilitarianism.” The Philosophical Quarterly 67.269 (2017): 794-812.