Yes, technically you might be able to do something relevant, but this is not why I came up with the thought experiment. So you can just assume that “you” in this scenario will not be able to save the world.
I think I don’t understand what you want to do with the thought experiment. In many cases, it is not needed to understand the purpose of a thought experiment and I think thought experiments are often useful. Including ones like this of putting it into a yes/no question. But this one is special.
I can not “just” “assume” that “I” will not be able to do something. These words mean something and it plays a role here. To assume means the I restrict all possible worlds to those where the scenario holds. That is not easy here—the hypotheical worlds are rare and difficult to get concrete enough to ask my intuition about, thus I cannot “just” do it. Asking me to “just” do it means to let my intuition use heuristics that are mostly based on our current world and will pattern match with things that probably do not correlate with what you are interested in. I’d rather refuse the question. I generally like answering polls and online questions. I think it is a good social habit to cultivate to source input about a wide range of topics. But I refuse to answer those that are ill-posed. I say: “Mu.”
I assume we are either lost in translation (which means I cannot phrase my thoughts clearly or am unable to put myself in your shoes) or you do not want to think about the question for some reason. I think I have to give up here. Nonetheless, thank you very much for the answer.
I guess “I don’t want to answer the question” is a decent summary. I spent so much time on answering why because I felt that there were too many assumption in the scenario.
Thanks for the reminder.
I think I don’t understand what you want to do with the thought experiment. In many cases, it is not needed to understand the purpose of a thought experiment and I think thought experiments are often useful. Including ones like this of putting it into a yes/no question. But this one is special.
I can not “just” “assume” that “I” will not be able to do something. These words mean something and it plays a role here. To assume means the I restrict all possible worlds to those where the scenario holds. That is not easy here—the hypotheical worlds are rare and difficult to get concrete enough to ask my intuition about, thus I cannot “just” do it. Asking me to “just” do it means to let my intuition use heuristics that are mostly based on our current world and will pattern match with things that probably do not correlate with what you are interested in. I’d rather refuse the question. I generally like answering polls and online questions. I think it is a good social habit to cultivate to source input about a wide range of topics. But I refuse to answer those that are ill-posed. I say: “Mu.”
I assume we are either lost in translation (which means I cannot phrase my thoughts clearly or am unable to put myself in your shoes) or you do not want to think about the question for some reason. I think I have to give up here. Nonetheless, thank you very much for the answer.
I guess “I don’t want to answer the question” is a decent summary. I spent so much time on answering why because I felt that there were too many assumption in the scenario.