FancyHitchPin
345 posts
Ladies: you’re passed out drunk at a party. Which one is going to prey on you and which one is going to keep you safe?
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@plasmarob What are you talking about? In this scenario third world votes count the same as "civilized" votes. Third world mindset is reality.
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“I am not obligated to risk my life for retards.” is third world mindset.
Civilization remains because its blue votes actually count 10x so you only need 5-10% or less of people to be decent for it to work.
Abraham and Sodom, etc
bldsre@bLdsire
What the red team won’t admit, is that even if “unwise,” everyone voting blue is the only way to guarantee that the chance of a deadly outcome is reduced to 0%. They won’t admit this—can’t, in fact—because they either: a) Believe other people are selfish and cowards and would select red for themselves. b) They themselves are selfish and cowardly. c) Are both selfish and cowardly and believe most people are too. They CORRECTLY point out that the red button eliminates any risk, and is the smart answer, but in this they are lost. Their genius intellect that enables them to reach this conclusion, for some reason, prevents them from realizing that in ANY binary contest (let alone one run over 8billion instances) there will be a spread of BOTH choices, regardless of which one is “more logical.” There will be millions, who select blue. Here, the red team is prepared to let these people simply die. Their reason? “I am not obligated to risk my life for retards.” It is only a risk if A, B, or C is true above. Yet the blue team keeps winning…So there we have it: Selfish *and* cowardly. No one has to die.
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@plasmarob @14th_Choice Then you should understand putting your wellbeing in the hands of the majority is neither wise, nor virtuous.
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@14th_Choice I never got the v
I lost job seeking opportunities because of it
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@TheCartoonLoon How do you not understand that your vote doesn't affect the outcome?
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If rather my kid have a chance at living than myself living and him dying
I don't really understand why people don't get this.
Its literally built into being a parent
HighJayster@HighJayster
@TheCartoonLoon So you gave him a .000000025% more of MAYBE livivng if he DID pick it, while putting your life at risk rather then take the 100% chance to just survive and him not be an orphan on the premise that someone MIGHT take care of the kid if you died....
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@TheJamie @jimiuorio This doesn't change the outcome in any way.
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@jimiuorio Original red-blue scenario, but if blue wins as well as everyone surviving everyone who voted red is only allowed out in public in a red t-shirt that says “I’m a silly little individualist”, and blue voters are allowed to throw eggs at them. What are you voting?
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The red button blue button debate is way more layered than I originally thought. The hypothetical nature of the consequences allows the blue button people to view themselves as heroic saviors. They predict thier own behavior based on these delusions. The logical thinking skills of the red button people actually move to the next level thinking; how will the majority behave when the consequences graduate from hypothetical? History gives us a pretty conclusive answer..
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@TheCartoonLoon But you don't increase his chance of survival, you only increase the likelihood he loses his father.
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I mean I am willing to sacrifice myself if it ensures the liklihood that my son would survive
As he is like 3. There is a 50 50 chance he will hit blue as he isn't old enough the understand the question
Lady Gravemaster@LadyGravemaster
For anyone still confused; If everyone pushes the red button, everyone survives. Done. If anyone pushes the blue button, they're committing suicide unless they can convince at least half of everyone else to also risk suicide in order for none of them to have to actually do it, but they want to, and now get to, brag they were willing to kill themselves & convince a multitude of others to as well, even though there was a perfectly logical, non-suicidal option the entire time that wouldn't have risked any of the population.
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I did not need to learn about pelican spiders
here is one impaling another spider (its exclusive prey) on one of its elongated jawparts
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@FightWithMemes No, this is Free Bird. I was expecting Rush when I clicked.
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@GreeneMan6 Why waste time on the date? Just jump up on the pinball machine at the back of the bar and spread your legs. If it doesn't work out how you hoped, just call Gloria Allred and get rich.
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@RealDonKeith This is the strongest open borders argument I've seen.
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@newenglander86 @AsianPatDixon Starlings are way too smart for that.
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@AsianPatDixon No don’t hurt them. Get one of those plastic owl things you see at campgrounds to keep them away.
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Need your help, Catholic Twitter:
Ethical to shoot starlings invasion birds who murder other baby birds, and mogg at the suet feeder?
With a pellet gun*
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@ryanlongcomedy Holy shit. Did Corrine get all that work done, or is that like prosthetics for the bit?
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@iheilhoppe These words, except isn't the Austrian who actually dies.
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@kalezelden I'll never forget how obviously amped with nervous energy one of my closest friends was, at whatever am it was, as his reception was ending, and he says to me in a rushed tone "I don't know if I'm going to have the energy tonight!?!" (twitching, pacing).
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If you’ve waited until the wedding to consummate the marriage (still a thing) I guarantee you have the energy, even for evening weddings.
This is all so obvious people.
LCPS AP CRT Teacher of the Year@tinioril
@LeahLibresco Don't know if I know anyone who had the energy for it after the wedding.
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@GreeneMan6 I think it's actually a test in one's(ostensible) belief in democracy. "I can save the world by voting" vs. "I accept I can only take responsibility for myself, and influence those who trust me"
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“All internet thought experiments are variations on either ‘The Trolley Problem’ or ‘The Prisoner’s Dilemma’. ‘Red Button vs Blue Button’ looks like ‘The Trolley Problem’ but it’s actually just ‘The Prisoner’s Dilemma’!”
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@redrummarts "I'd rather k¡II myself than live with people who think differently than me."
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Decided I'm picking blue cause all the posts I'm seeing from the red button pushers are deeply reddit and I don't want to live in that world
Red Drummarts@redrummarts
Everyone who's picking red thinks blue is the suicide button. And everyone who picks blue thinks red is the murder button That's the only conclusion I'm getting from this
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@liminal_warmth "I would rather die than live with people who think differently than me."
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I hope all the red button pushers will enjoy their new world without empathetic and prosocial people (and significantly fewer women).
Good luck with that
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