(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.
I whined about cracker being a slur and those mean ol Hexbears just called me a cracker more instead of debating me
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.
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…