"Buuut, it just so happens that this here permutation-based formula is the only possible formula that has those four properties.  Which is why, if dath ilan ever runs into aliens, they'll be at least sort of hopeful that the aliens also think this is the fairness formula as specialized for crisp games like these."

"This is how humans, from their chaotic beginnings, come to know Law.  There's a sort of - bootstrapping, reflection, seeing something inside yourself - where you recognize the higher pattern and coherence within your own intuitions - where you find four crisp things to say should obviously, intuitively, be true, that appeal to the pre-Lawful notions inside you - and those four crisp properties pinpoint and identify a single possible Law - and then you look back at the intuitions inside you, and say, 'Oh, so that's what it was reflecting, that's what it was grasping towards, all along.'"

"Buuut, it just so happens that this here permutation-based formula is the only possible formula that has those four properties.  Which is why, if dath ilan ever runs into aliens, they'll be at least sort of hopeful that the aliens also think this is the fairness formula as specialized for crisp games like these."

"This is how humans, from their chaotic beginnings, come to know Law.  There's a sort of - bootstrapping, reflection, seeing something inside yourself - where you recognize the higher pattern and coherence within your own intuitions - where you find four crisp requirements that seem obviously, intuitively like they should hold if there's any way to get them, that appeal to the pre-Lawful notions inside you - and those four crisp properties pinpoint and identify a single possible Law - and then you look back at the intuitions inside you, and say, 'Oh, so that's what it was reflecting, that's what it was a shadow of, all along.'"

"Buuut, it just so happens that this here permutation-based formula is the only possible formula that has those four properties.  Which is why, if dath ilan ever runs into aliens, they'll be at least sort of hopeful that the aliens also think this is the fairness formula as specialized for crisp games like these."

"This is how humans, from their chaotic beginnings, come to know Law.  There's a sort of - bootstrapping, reflection, seeing something inside yourself - where you recognize the higher pattern and coherence within your own intuitions - where you find four crisp requirements that seem obviously, intuitively like they should hold if there's any way to get them, that appeal to the pre-Lawful notions inside you - and those four crisp properties pinpoint and identify a single possible Law - and then you look back at the intuitions inside you, and say, 'Oh, so that's what it was reflecting, that's what it was a shadow of, all along.'  You didn't know that Law when you saw the Ultimatum Game, but you gave that Law's answer of 6:6."

"Buuut, it just so happens that this here permutation-based formula is the only possible formula that has those four properties.  Which is why, if dath ilan ever runs into aliens, they'll be at least sort of hopeful that the aliens also think this is the fairness formula as specialized for crisp games like these."

"This is how humans, from their chaotic beginnings, come to know Law.  There's a sort of - bootstrapping, reflection, seeing something inside yourself - where you recognize the higher pattern and coherence within your own intuitions - where you find four crisp requirements that seem obviously, intuitively like they should hold if there's any way to get them, that appeal to the pre-Lawful notions inside you - and those four crisp properties pinpoint and identify a single possible Law - and then you look back at the intuitions inside you, and say, 'Oh, so that's what it was reflecting, that's what it was a shadow of, all along.'  You didn't know that Law when you first saw the Ultimatum Game, but you gave that Law's answer of 6:6."