I wouldn’t dismiss those that quickly. The more unrealistic assumptions you make, the less the answer to the dilemma in the thought experiment will be relevant to any decision I’ll ever have to make in the real world.
Yes it’s less relevant to that, but the thought experiment isn’t intended to directly glean information about what you’d do in the real world, it’s supposed to gain information about the processes that decide what you would do in the real world. Once enough of this information is gained, it can be used to predict what you’d do in the real world, and also to identify real-world situations where your behavior is determined by your ignorance of facts in the real world, or otherwise deviating from your goals, and in doing so perhaps change that behavior.
I wouldn’t dismiss those that quickly. The more unrealistic assumptions you make, the less the answer to the dilemma in the thought experiment will be relevant to any decision I’ll ever have to make in the real world.
Yes it’s less relevant to that, but the thought experiment isn’t intended to directly glean information about what you’d do in the real world, it’s supposed to gain information about the processes that decide what you would do in the real world. Once enough of this information is gained, it can be used to predict what you’d do in the real world, and also to identify real-world situations where your behavior is determined by your ignorance of facts in the real world, or otherwise deviating from your goals, and in doing so perhaps change that behavior.