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TheOtherDave comments on Please Don't Fight the Hypothetical - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: TimS 20 April 2012 02:29PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 April 2012 01:04:44PM 0 points [-]

In general, thought experiments that depend on an achievable epistemic state can actually be performed and don't need to remain thought experiments.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 23 April 2012 02:16:09PM 2 points [-]

They can depend on an achievable epistemic state, but be horribly impractical or immoral to set up (hello trolley problems).