Reminder to all: thought experiments are limited in what you can learn. Situations which are significantly out-of-domain for our evolved and trained experiences simply cannot be analyzed by our intuitions. You can sometimes test a model to see if it remains useful in novel/fictional situations, but you really can’t trust the results.
For real decisions and behaviors, details matter. And thought experiments CANNOT provide the details, or they’d be just situations, not hypotheticals.
Reminder to all: thought experiments are limited in what you can learn. Situations which are significantly out-of-domain for our evolved and trained experiences simply cannot be analyzed by our intuitions. You can sometimes test a model to see if it remains useful in novel/fictional situations, but you really can’t trust the results.
For real decisions and behaviors, details matter. And thought experiments CANNOT provide the details, or they’d be just situations, not hypotheticals.