I honestly can’t imagine a non-at-least-slightly-problematic reason you’d bring this up… but putting that aside for a moment, in general I agree with you that overanalysing these can be tiresome. The problem with this one in particular is it’s such a contrived variation that it really brings it upon itself. In fact, it’s precisely because it’s particularly context dependent, that I have more of an issue with it.
It’s more that it doesn’t meet the bar of an abstract thought experiment that can be discussed without context in the first place that it’s the issue, and most thought experiments do, including the original one.
Basically I’m saying “this one would require contextualizing and overanalysis in order to get anywhere at all, and that’s tiresome, therefore that’s why it’s bad”. Do you see?
P.S. There’s also no part where we’re taking this “literally” per se.
Not to call anyone out but trying to be literal, contextualize and overanalyze abstract though experiments is one of the neurodivergent test questions
And this is no way means to be assigning value, more of an awareness notion
I honestly can’t imagine a non-at-least-slightly-problematic reason you’d bring this up… but putting that aside for a moment, in general I agree with you that overanalysing these can be tiresome. The problem with this one in particular is it’s such a contrived variation that it really brings it upon itself. In fact, it’s precisely because it’s particularly context dependent, that I have more of an issue with it.
It’s more that it doesn’t meet the bar of an abstract thought experiment that can be discussed without context in the first place that it’s the issue, and most thought experiments do, including the original one.
Basically I’m saying “this one would require contextualizing and overanalysis in order to get anywhere at all, and that’s tiresome, therefore that’s why it’s bad”. Do you see?
P.S. There’s also no part where we’re taking this “literally” per se.
I do and have seen what you’re trying to mean (and I tried to frame in a way that’d alleviate the known problematics.)
But we’re also going into the overthinking direction.