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I’m not sure the trolley problem nor Russel’s Teapot are legitimate either; I think the value is in the very clear and specificity of the thought experiment.

(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)

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(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)

No, but they can very rapidly fall into idealist question-begging, though it is worth noting that the prompt you are giving this comparison to is not clear enough to be a useful thought experiment even by liberal standards. It is just a hazy hypothetical.

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i think i really hurt myself in confusion in this thread; i can barely piece together what i was saying or what i meant.

i’ll leave the utopian/idealist thought experiments à la roko’s basilisk & what’s really real to the folks on effectivr altrusim forums…

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(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)

I got some bad news for you there lol

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oh gosh oh crud;

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