Alan Garcia Cardenas

You could've just said "I pick red because I want to live no matter what, but I hope blue wins because all else being equal it'd be better if a button game didn't kill a bunch of people." But you really went with "If not literally 100% of people press red, they deserve to die."

It took DeSantis two days to get this done. Dude is simply a legend.

We need a crash effort to cure sleep. It’s appalling that we have to waste a third of our life insensate. If we were able to cut everyone’s sleep from 8 to 4 hours a night, this would be the equivalent of raising life expectancy from 80 to 100!

everyone in the world has to press one of two buttons. 🟢 🟣 if you press green, you will be straight, unless >90% of people press it, in which case you will be gay. if you press purple, you will be gay, unless >10% of people press it, in which case, you will be straight.

@DanielleFong It took me a minute but purple is the obviously correct choice here.

@Truth_Dragon500 It's not an intelligence test, it's a preference test. Self preservation isn't the only preference. The inability to recognise this fact is not indicative of intelligence. (Wait maybe it is an intelligence test)

@eigenrobot Now do Nietzsche, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Bertrand Russell, and John Von Neumann.

@uubzu This is embarrassing for you. Please stop.

Visualization of the red/blue poll results

@cremieuxrecueil Must be nice 😒

The final version of this study just went online. TL;DR: People with genetic variants that disrupt myostatin are naturally more muscular, less fat, and stronger, without apparent downsides.

Pro-red responses I've seen, when confronted with the possibility someone they care about might press blue: (1) No one I care about would ever press blue (really?) (2) [insert problematic group] aren't included in the hypo (wrong) (3) Those loved ones have to die (psychopathic)

@augusteprompt Incorrect

@GcAlan1093 @MrBeast You don’t understand. It’s eugenic.

Everyone on earth takes 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? BE HONEST.

Never forget that Tom Brady and the literal 6 foot 6 king of Span both got cheated on. Women are broken. It’s over, man.

@ChrisBospos5xc @razibkhan Dear God. NO

@razibkhan Ryan grim. The rare reasonable and likeable lib

is there a thinker who i should reach out to make a proactive case for liberal/democratic policies for my podcast? (i asked a reasonable centrist once and they accept but pulled out cuz optics; fair enough)

@razibkhan I don't know if @DerekPederson3 does podcasts, but he's a fantastic advocate for liberal democracy.

@TheEbonyMaw That's not unreasonable. But have you factored in the possibility that in a large enough group of even people who are hostile to each other, they would likely still be interested in saving the few people close to them with whom they were unable to coordinate?

I have opinions on the new red/blue button debate. I interpret it as a test of whether or not you are in a high trust or low trust environment. Choosing the red button guarantees your own safety but also ensures people will die because there is invariably going to be people who will vote blue for whatever reason. But choosing the blue button is only a viable option IF you are in a high trust environment. The blue/red button question, in my opinion, is more of a question of “do you trust the group you’re in?” Pure altruism & trust vs. guaranteed self-preservation So it depends on the group. All other things being equal, I don’t particularly want blue voters to die, so I’d ideally vote blue. But I’m not going to stake my life on that if the group I’m in is particularly untrustworthy. So again… it depends on the group. If I was in a situation where all the other voters were my closest friends & family, obviously I would choose blue. But if I’m in a group of people who don’t know each other and are openly hostile to each other, I am pressing red.

the fact that psychopaths see that half the population chooses blue and thus if a few more voted red half the population would die and they still say "you get nothing beneficial of a blue vote" is genuinely unhinged

@Romy_Holland I'm afraid to ask my friends because if any of them goes red I will never look at them the same.

I've only talked to maybe a dozen friends about whether they're red or blue button pushers, but within that group there's an obvious correlation between being worse at modeling others and pushing the red button. I think it's easy to paint it as an empathy thing, and that's true in some instances, but I think for many people it might be about an inability to grasp that other people think in radically different ways.

@bongdadovich @nomanautomata I'm right wing, unvaxxed, mostly unmasked (but wasn't a hill I would die on), and strongly Blue.

@nomanautomata Ya just like they yelled at everyone who didn’t get the vax or wear a mask.

What red button pushers might not understand is that what they perceive as "virtue signaling" is people intentionally applying social pressure to achieve pro-social outcomes. It's not purely narcissistic, there is a real purpose to it.

@PunishedAltus Don't care I love both

Breasts feed and nurture life. They are the bedrock of civilization. The ass expels waste and can only destroy. The boob man is a creator, the butt man worships chaos.

@adrusi Based

how i became a blue-pusher i have a confession: years ago, in the first button poll, i pressed red "well theres a correct answer here, right?" then i saw the results and that we all won bc blue won and i didnt get mad, just realized i was wrong and switched allegiances