What are your favorite and or famous thought experiments?
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I was influenced greatly by Robert Axelrod's short essay about the Prisoner's Dilemma titled "The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation" (link PDF warning)
tl;dr The essay explores an iterative game of Prisoner's Dilemma, and demonstrates how cooperation can emerge from a group of self interested participants. It has implications for the statistical emergence of morality, and even remarks on politics.