It's irrational to return the wallet if you were to consider just your well being. However, being we value being part of a group, and that group is the kind that returns wallets it finds.
Overall most of the answers are pretty much reddit tier cringe, but I guess here it's just echoing what is found online. LLMs are capable of novel insights but to produce them, you have to let the LLM grind a bit. I would be curious if someone asked why or what are the implications for a few hours.
> Humans are more loyal to belonging than to truth
> Why?
> Belonging to a larger group is advantageous to survival and reproduction
> Why?
> ...
Often doing "the right thing", in irrational circumstances, is nevertheless self-protective.
Otherwise you get friction in your social programming that you might never overcome.
Humans on the other hand co-opt, arguably, sort of like a virus. Our ultimate foe isn’t other organisms, but nothingness, because you can’t co-opt nothingness into an ally or tool.