TheOtherDave comments on Please Don't Fight the Hypothetical - Less Wrong
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In general, thought experiments that depend on an achievable epistemic state can actually be performed and don't need to remain thought experiments.
They can depend on an achievable epistemic state, but be horribly impractical or immoral to set up (hello trolley problems).