This does seem to correspond to what I am trying to gesture at. Thanks! 

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

Thanks. How many people do you think would understand it if I called myself a "vibe utilitarian"?

Thanks! But no, I think what I am getting at is the opposite of that: 

• Ethical injunctions, as I understand it, means setting up formal rules that override your utility calculus: Never lie, even if it looks like the optimal thing to do.
• What I am talking about is setting up informal guidelines that can be overridden by my utility calculus: Never lie, unless it looks like the optimal thing to do.

What is SBF?

My guess is that the ideal is something like a default Ask culture with specific Guess culture contexts when it genuinely is worth the extra consideration.

IMO the ideal is a culture where everyone puts some reasonable effort into Guessing when feasible, but where Asking is also fully accepted.

The huge problem with that is that the extreme deadliness of one of ideologies that has rushed in to fill the void caused by the discrediting of Christianity: namely, the one (usually referred to vaguely by "progress" or "innovation") that views every personal, organizational and political decision through the lens of which decision best advances or accelerates science and technology.

Is this really a widely held ideology? My impression is that the AI race is driven by greed much more than ideology.

I hope you are no longer married to the woman who used to hit you.

Did you ever make this post?

Very interesting post! I have a question: It seems to me that your "Goodness of Reality" hypothesis implies (or is equivalent to) the following corollary:

For any conscious entity E and any circumstances C, there exists some "attitude" or "interpretation" A which entity E can adopt which will allow entity E to be perfectly content and happy while experiencing circumstances C.

Do you agree with my corollary?

(I am not sure whether "attitude" or "interpretation" are good terms, but at least in my own meditation experience and from what I have read, suffering seems to derive largely or wholly from our "attitude" towards experience.)