@rarply @3RenChengHu if it is 49% then my one vote blue would have result in death.
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@3RenChengHu The question is do you understand interdependence at a social level.
I am not attacking you for caring about you.
I'm attacking you for failing to model the consequences of red majorities at 51%, 60% 80% 95%...
How would you be forced to adapt if 5% or 49% of people are dead?
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Since you have virtually no chance of tipping the balance in an election with 8 billion voters, pushing blue might kill you and almost certainly won't save anyone.
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@davidshor 2700 people from america does not represent the world. if the question as for ONLY the USA then blue is a good answer if it is globally red is the only answer
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We asked this to a large sample of nationally representative Americans - blue wins by a 3:1 margin!
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@RepublicApostle Europa: the last battle. but they have to be already questioning somethings like why society is become so degenerate
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@GoodFarmingAdam @gfodor you are assuming people of other cultures, lower IQs, different levels of poverty would have the exact same understanding and mindset as you, they dont. lower the IQ the more likely they are to take the obvious survival choice, same with poverty. I see truth, my soul is intact.
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@00knowledgeable @gfodor Ill pray for your soul
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“I would vote blue to save people who voted blue because they don’t understand the question but those who voted red because they don’t understand the question are horrible people”
Put it in the louvre, this is pure crystal-distilled tribalism
PoliticalAndy@AndyPolitical
@gfodor it was, you're just a horrible person that didn't pay attention to the question and would've killed a bunch of children
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@GoodFarmingAdam @gfodor on a global scale blue will never get close to 50%
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@gfodor A blue vote objectively has more life value than a red vote, the numbers are not debatable.
The only reason to vote Red is pure self interest, its a question of your inner nature as a person.
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@marnie1616 @JohnKempHomes @WSOnlineNews in fact i dont hate natives, i hate lies, i hate scams, the residential school "bodies" is a scam they wont dig because there are zero bodies. federal government paid $250,000 for residential school abuse stories without requiring ANY proof, INCLUDING ATTENDING
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@00knowledgeable @JohnKempHomes @WSOnlineNews Oh stfu with your whataboutism BS. You’re cooked and a hater. Take a seat.
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@SpeculatorArt do the calculation with redistribting to tax payers only.
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@oliveegger it also includes low IQ people who will push red because 100% survival rate is an easy choice. there are significantly more people under 100IQ than over. and there are significantly more selfish cultures than civilized.
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@sp6runderrated just look at their countries currently, oh wait they out number civilized countries population. red is the only logical choice.
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A society of all red pushers would implode *very* fast.
Ivan Kirigin@ikirigin
@waitbutwhy You press red for survival. I press red to cull the blue pressers. We are not the same.
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@ArmadaUGS if you unable to explain the depth and total consequences of the question to people, low IQ people (majority of the world) will push red. guaranteed life is a no brainer. they wont think about the children, the disabled, the color blind they will think about themselves.
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I understand the "game theory" behind red even if it never would work in practice at all
With roughly 800-900 million people below the age of 6 it presents a massive issue with red which all or at least most seem to ignore.
So yeah 400-450 million dead here alone if red decides
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@Mhenderson550 @LordTash2 @Kekius_Sage not even close to 50%. anyone under 80IQ would push red because they cannot comprehend the numbers and 100% for them to live that is a "no brainer", voting blue is trusting that everyone from every culture thinks like you. they dont.
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@LordTash2 @Kekius_Sage You are overestimating the intelligence of blue button pushers
There are two blue button pushers
- well meaning retarded person who wants to save everyone
- person who wants to save the well meaning retarded person and believes ~50% of people are well meaning retards
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this is what it really is
red: you don’t trust people, so you guarantee a worse world
blue: you trust people, with zero control if they betray you
if blue wins, you survived a gamble
if red wins, you proved why trust never stood a chance
either way: the outcome says more about us than the game itself
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@shaggysurvives reds are high IQ and below 80IQ, high IQ reds choose red because of the low IQ people. lower IQ people tend to live in the now and are selfish, plus they cannot comprehend complex ideas. more than half of the world is under 100 IQ.
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very weird to me that people keep saying reds are higher iq
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I just feel like the choice is between keeping all the stupid people who mean well and have loving hearts alive or staying alive with the higher iq but now there’s a higher percentage of selfish people too
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@plasmarob if we are talking the worldwide population red is the only logical choice, there are way more people below 100IQ than over 100, lower IQ people mostly think in the now and are therefore selfish, therefore expecting them to vote blue is suicide.
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The red button advocates really do seem like morally inferior people
Many say I'm signalling virtue
I happen to think my view is more virtuous, and there is no actual praxis here so what is the problem? I do donate a substantial amount to the poor
Find virtue i guess
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@JoeShmo2pt0 @imPenny2x Incorrect, they are risking all the lives that may pick blue including themselves for the only purpose of they think it mean they are good.
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LOTS of discussion about “pretending to be moral” if you pick the blue button.
You can truck right off with the pretend part.
Is it that hard to believe that some of us might choose not to want to muder others even when nobody is looking, and even it’s partially their fault?
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@G0ffThew you are assuming the world thinks like you. almost every poverty stricken country would majority vote red. you are assuming low IQ people will be able to comprehend the numbers, there are way more people in the world under 100 IQ than over.
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The calculus to press red is, to put it kindly, short-sighted idiot math. It begins and ends with “what input gives me the best odds of living” with no regard for what the world you’d be living in - where everyone you can trust is dead and everyone else knows it - would look like
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@venture42069 @SlumRNA_Dog if you are unable to have a discussion with every person before hand do you trust that everyone from every culture will choose blue? over 4 billion people will choose red.
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@SlumRNA_Dog You can tell red has no leg to stand on because they make ridiculous scenarios like this when it's literally "press blue and nothing happens, press red and people die" with the only danger being created by people that press red
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*Man holding gun to his head* “If 51% of the people in this room don’t hold a gun to their head the guns all go off and we die.”
“What if we just didn’t hold a gun to our head?”
“Wow you’re literally only concerned about yourself. Unbelievable.”
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@sergeanttheodor @IterIntellectus red button is logical, blue button is expecting low iq people to think like the average person. blue is communism
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@IterIntellectus No man that’s not correct. The red button is forced hegemony and the blue button is freedom for all.
The red button is communism. The blue button is Americanism.
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@sudosteve_ @The_Memeries @ItsRobbAllen why would you need to coordinate a 100% vote? anyone who wants a 100% chance if living would push red. it is the only logical choice if you want to remain alive.
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@The_Memeries @ItsRobbAllen Coordinating >50% of the population to have empathy is much easier than coordinating 100% to be selfish.
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New Trolley problem has arrived, only it's dumber.
Pres Red - 100% chance of living.
Blue - Non-zero chance of dying.
It has nothing to do with empathy for others unless you're stuck on suicidal empathy, which is YOUR fault, not mine.
There is ZERO logical reason for ANYONE to press blue. NONE.
vittorio@IterIntellectus
why would anyone even press blue?!?
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@BullMooseMemes and imagine if we had the real data, you know, where browns are not continually classified as "Whites".
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Feminists be like: All men are violent and dangerous!
Me: Yeah? What demographic of men? What do these men usually look like?
Feminists: THAT’S RACIST 🤬🤬🤬
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@LerkyLou1 @aas_ker so, not being sarcastic, it works because some people dont follow the logic all the way through. if they did they would know the consequences.
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@00knowledgeable @aas_ker Logic can be used as a weapon against anyone that chooses results they want based on a given action with out including all of the variables. You simply give them what they want in a way that is ultimately self destructive. It works because they can't see the consequences
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