There’s a bunch of work in cognitive science on “virtual bargaining”—or how people bargain in their head with hypothetical social partners when figuring out how to make social/ethical decisions (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661314001314 for a review; Nick Chater is the person who’s done the most work on this). This is obviously somewhat different from what you’re describing, but it seems related—you could imagine people assigning various moral intuitions to different hypothetical social partners (in fact, that’s kind of explicitly what Karnofsky does) in order to implement the kind of bargaining you describe. Could be worth checking out that literature.
There’s a bunch of work in cognitive science on “virtual bargaining”—or how people bargain in their head with hypothetical social partners when figuring out how to make social/ethical decisions (see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661314001314 for a review; Nick Chater is the person who’s done the most work on this). This is obviously somewhat different from what you’re describing, but it seems related—you could imagine people assigning various moral intuitions to different hypothetical social partners (in fact, that’s kind of explicitly what Karnofsky does) in order to implement the kind of bargaining you describe. Could be worth checking out that literature.
Oh wow, that is a really great paper! Thank you very much for linking it.