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  1. Deleted a tweet earlier because I thought I had gotten Derek Parfit and Robert Nozick mixed up, but then I re-checked and found out I actually had it right in the first place, so I guess I could've actually kept it up... oh well...
    1. …in reply to @cooljeanius
      Anyways if I had the money to be a game dev I’d just fund projects based on making games out of famous philosophical thought experiments… the trolley problem has already been done to death (by pretty much every game touting “tough moral decisions”), but, beyond that…
      1. …in reply to @cooljeanius
        …like, Frank Jackson’s “Color Blind Mary” (a.k.a. “Mary’s Room”, “Mary the Super-Scientist”, or “What Mary Didn’t Know”) could make the basis for an interesting (mini-)game: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
        1. …in reply to @cooljeanius
          Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” could also be the basis for an interesting game along the lines of Snake Pass, Untitled Goose Game, or Stray: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F