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Patric Calhoun
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@mgmtarham I love people arguing over the price of sn avocado (one of first things we are meant to give up if we have trouble saving).... but totally ignoring the big question..... what the heck is the grated pile.
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@dynastyinfo411 @LiteBolts His splits are even better vs Lhp, but they probably platoon anyways, unfortunately.. vs a lot of lefties next week
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@LiteBolts They both started today
He will sit vs most LHP, but most days it should be Rooker, Butler, Soderstrom and Cortes occupying the DH and 3 OF spots
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Carlos Cortes
2026 Season
67 PA
.377 AVG
.433 OBP
.689 SLG
1.122 OPS
4 HR
13 RBI
6 BB
4 K
Major League Career
166 PA
.335 AVG
.367 OBP
.600 SLG
.967 OPS
8 HR
27 RBI
2025 Season at AAA
314 PA
.322 AVG
.414 OBP
.603 SLG
1.017 OPS
17 HR
77 RBI
41 BB
46 K
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@Mayzomatic Yeah, and then you'd press blue and most of them would change their mind 😂
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I was initially a red button guy. Seems like the obvious, more intelligent choice. Everyone in control of their own lives. No one needs to die, just press red
However there have been so many people arguing blue that it in turn makes them correct. Way too many people are going to push blue regardless so therefore blue becomes the correct answer
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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@GodotIsW8ing4U Yes. There's going to be some peoples stand on the track and I don't want to live in a world where we let them get runned over
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There is a runaway trolley careening down a railroad track. Nobody is on the track and it’s not going to hit anything, but if more than 50% of the population stand on the track, it will derail harmlessly, otherwise it will kill them all. Do you stand on the track?
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Bond Villain: "Press blue... or don't."
Me: "What if I don't?"
BV: "Nothing. You go home."
Me: "And if I press it?"
BV: "You die, along with everyone else who pressed blue, unless half of humanity also presses it."
Me: "But I can just leave?"
BV: "Correct."
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@MarkChangizi Yeah, and then they'll change their minds, and you'll be the sucker that presses blue
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The real dilemma is this:
There is zero reason to press Blue.
Everyone has the easy ability to save himself, with no downside to anyone else, by simply pressing Red. So this is not a variant of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. There is no collective-action trap. There is no strategic sacrifice required. There is just one correct button.
And yet we see that vast numbers of humans fall for the cognitive illusion and pick Blue.
Which means that, once we know this about human beings, the situation does become a dilemma.
We can joke that we’ll just let the Blues commit suicide — they’re dumb, they’re virtue-signaling, they chose it, whatever.
But in reality, it could easily be a third, maybe almost half, of humanity. Billions of people dying not from logic, but from a moral-cognitive mirage.
And we do not, in fact, want billions to die. Not to mention that the loss would devastate every society on Earth.
So the dilemma becomes genuine not because it was ever a real logico-ethical conundrum, but because human cognitive fallacies make it into one.
The world-ender is not the buttons.
The world-ender is the human mind.
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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@ladboy0 @plasmarob Imagine it's you and 30 strangers.. in front of you is a gun.. you can A. walk away or B. point the gun at your head.
If less than 50% point the gun at head, a bullet is fired.
What do you expect majority to pick, and what do you pick?
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@Patric_cal @plasmarob Is emposed by a third party not connected to either button.
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@matterasmachine Blue button: point gun at head
Red button: put gun down
Just don't point gun at head
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The blue button is not a suicide button; it’s a genetic memory of a strategy that let humanity survive through millions of years. And here the right comes and calls it a suicide button. Ridiculous.
Matter as Machine@matterasmachine
Predators cannot attack the entire herd. They will have to wait until the herd begins to run away, and then attack the stragglers. That's all you need to know about the team red. Those who press the red button cause panic and deaths.
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@aoinxsco Option 1: don't point gun at head
Option 2: point gun at head
Pull trigger if less than 50% choose to point gun at head
Hint: don't point gun at head
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> Those who didn’t realize this and pressed blue get culled
caring about these people is the fucking test yall are dumb as hell
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@davidshor @KooHo_jin Imagine you have a gun in your hand.
Press red: put gun down
Press blue: point gun at head
If less than 50% press blue, pull trigger
If more than 50% press blue, put gun down
(Just don't point gun at your head)
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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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@Hidden_Collect Have gun in hand
Press red: put gun down
Press blue: point gun at head
If less than 50% press blue: pull trigger
If more than 50% press blue: put gun down
Hint: don't point gun at head
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i picked blue because people would pick blue and i like people 👍
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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You have gun in hand
Press red: put gun down
Press blue: point gun at head
>50% press blue, put gun down
<50% press blue, pull trigger
Hint: don't point gun at head
I,Hypocrite@lporiginalg
You have to admit this is a hilarious tweet. Blue has won and everyone lives but all the red pressers are coping about their high IQs or whatever while having to love the rest of their lives knowing they would cowardly condemn their fellow man to death to save their own skin.
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@0xCOSM0 Morons pick blue, and they think they are morally superior, because they are too stupid to understand the problem.
Option 1: Live
Option 2: Die
If >50% choose to die, then everyone lives
Just choose to live bro
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most people would try to justify picking red.
and you honestly cannot blame them, they aren't necessarily evil, just because they want to guarantee their survival.
this is just sad for people picking blue, cause they are thinking for the collective survival of everyone
betting with their life that complete strangers are good people
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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@TwinkRegimer This is the point, it's literally the same exact scenario, there's absolutely no difference
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"Just press red it's the only way to guarantee your life" I'd rather die than let billions die to guarantee my own life.
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@TwinkRegimer Huh? It's literally the same question, just without the colors
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@Patric_cal If you only consider yourself and ignore everyone else, yeah
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@neosovietposter I'm giving you 2 options:
You can live or you can die.
But there's a catch: if 50% choose to die, then everyone lives.
Hint: just choose to live 😉
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Red Pushers are really fucking desperate for everyone to be as weak and selfish as they are lol
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This kind of child’s first game theory intro thought argument hinges on the idea that if taken seriously the vast majority of people would conceivably want to live in a world populated entirely by red button pushers. Come on now
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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