
Miksus
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@IntractableLion Game theorists often conflate a self-interested rationality choice as the right choice. Once the right choice is defined as a form of “payoff” and you think in terms of maximization, you lose the ability to think in terms honor and fidelity. Virtue doesn’t live in a calculus.
























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?


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?



I think people are choosing "blue" because then they can feel noble, but in the real world, with their life on the line, they'd press red. I'd certainly press red! Just have the whole world press red, and nobody dies!










