I forget who made this argument, but it was in a large-group OODA loop discussion in New York: the higher the VUCA in a large-scale conflict environment, the more virtue ethics is strategically adaptive because it can accumulate a following via imitability.
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Think of the heat signatures of the 3 ethical orientations under VUCA
Virtue ethics looks like a fixed point
Consequentialist ethics looks like orienteering towards a fixed point
Deontological ethics looks like inscrutable behavior that needs explanation
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Consequentialst ethics are impossible b/c you have to simulate everyone else. Then they have to simulate you simulating them, etc etc. Virtue ethics breaks the logjam by approximating with bounded compute the right answer.
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It computes an answer, the "right" part is necessarily solipsistic though, the other two run into intractability because they attempt non-solipsistic computations
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It computes an answer. I don't see say, a computation limited version of the categorical imperative as being solipsistic, even if it doesn't perfectly capture the preferences of others.

