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229: Thought Experiments

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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The Role of Moral Intuitions in Thought Experiments

I asked Chate GPT to solve the trolley problem and it doesn't. They just gave me he's gave me like five ways to solve it through different more old paradigms utilitarianism virtue ethics is kind of stuff. Is it a useful thing I mean is it useful to do thought experiments to come up with moral with moral answers? Yeah. Yes though I think it does get at like moral intuitions in a way that it might be tough to discuss at a higher level you know when is it right to save one life versus another. That's for rationalists. You're new. You're the one on Reddit. What's that cringey new like internet group are

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