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@elonmusk This is cool and I love it. There is something about the unprofessional clothing style of the employees that is off-putting for such an important project like this. Bunch of John Fettermans doing brain surgery.

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@ConceptualJames @deadmousefive James, the thought experiment states that if blue looses, only people who press red survive. Then you have to account for the MILLIONS of people that CANNOT press the red button in private, as the experiment dictates. OVER 130 MILLION INFANTS WILL DIE. Thousands in a coma.

@deadmousefive Everyone lives if everyone pushes red. People only die if some people press blue.

It's remarkable because the blue button is like the anti-self-preservation button, like passive-aggressively putting your fate in the hands of others as an exercise in justifying hating them. It's willfully stepping out of self-preservation and being mad that not everyone did.

@IamSean90 If blue looses "only people who pressed the red button survive". There will be a HUGE subset of the global population that CANNOT press the red button at all or will make a mistake. The red majority path condemns non-button pushers, among others. Infants, people in a coma, etc.

Everyone should press red button it's completely risk free & betting on 1/2 + 1 to gamble their own lives on blue is stupid

@aakashgupta Qualitative metrics are overrated like a Scientology E-reader thetan reading.

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is. A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog. 164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything. Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology. The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing. The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it. Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout. The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need. The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

@BeuwenDragon The problem with this thought experiment is blue winning everyone lives, blue loosing only people who press red lives. There is a very large subset of the global population that cannot press a button. Think infants, coma, paralyzed, unconscious, etc etc. Not pressing is a problem

Blue button pushers are easily manipulated by deceptive wording, selfishly resorting to emotional coercion to manipulate other people into gambling their lives to save them from the consequences of their own choice, all while gaslighting everyone to thinking they are altruistic.

@waitbutwhy I realize by the wording of this that if blue looses, all of the people that cannot vote at all will die. Infants, the infirm, people in a coma. Blue is everyone survives, red is only red-button pressers survive. Important detail.

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?

@diegocaleiro @PurpleRetard53 @waitbutwhy You can't cooperate or do anything pro social if you don't care for the self: “In the event of a change in cabin pressure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling. Please put your own oxygen mask on first before assisting others”

It's harsh sounding but it's also how we got here to being the most altruistic ape species who ever lived. We shamed red pushers into oblivion, ostracized them, refused them sex. Over a million years now 95% of humans are extremely pro social, cooperative, loving of other people and willing to help strangers on the street when they have a problem.

@diegocaleiro @3xpops @waitbutwhy What if they don't choose at all? What about people in a coma? What about an infant? What about someone paralyzed from the waste down. This scenario doesn't account for not pressing either.

@3xpops @waitbutwhy That's not true. Children, elders, confused people etc... will pick at random. Good people will pick blue. Only some people will pick red. Only in an abstract imaginary world could everyone pick one option.

@_cherki82_ @waitbutwhy Don't be foolish, press red.

@waitbutwhy Personally, I think blue is the only reasonable option. Sure, if I press red, I live no matter what. But then I am complicit in the death of up to 50% of the global population. And I have to live among the ruins of a totally destabilized world.

@fellowtravelerx @waitbutwhy

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@waitbutwhy Game theory payoff matrix

@JamusFella @CJDGiesen @alphabetralala @waitbutwhy Found the lemming!

@CJDGiesen @alphabetralala @waitbutwhy I'd rather die with my morals than live a coward. If I die saving people so be it im at peace with that. Jump off the bridge to help gurantee everyone survives is an easy pick

@Dorito_Djinn @waitbutwhy Pressing the red button is saying no one is stupid enough to play Russian roulette with the blue button and no one will die because no one will press blue.

You can say red button is the smart choice but you’re just exposing your selfishness. The choice is as easy as pressing a button and you can’t even take that chance to save a significant portion of the population. Then, to feel less bad about your choice you dehumanize blue button pushers. You’re not smart for pressing the red button, you’re just a coward.

@waitbutwhy Cute game theory. You have nothing to lose by pressing the red button, other than loosing the lives of all the dummies that pressed the blue button because they didn't think carefully.

@TakeThatClouds Mountains literally squeeze the water in the air into clouds. Mountains also squeeze the water out of clouds into rain.

Twitter user discovers convective cloud formation.

@PramilaJayapal What he owns is only worth that much because it brings value to billions of people. Many jobs, products, and services are an output of what he owns, therefore the market deems it $805 billion in value. You want to take from that value for something far less valuable.

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.

@jgmac1106 @emptywheel No u

@emptywheel I really wish James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossia would have faced charges for fraudulently trying to publish fake research studies In that case hundreds, if not thousands, of hours were wasted on fraudulent data by academic institutions

Is Tricia claiming investigative journalists have never paid for a source and it is illegal for investigative journalists to pay a source?

@OrevaZSN It's not about how much harder you work, it's about how much everyone else values your product or service. The more others value what you produce, the more they are willing to pay you for it.

You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

@retro_gamess Best video game rental ever

Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure (1994)

@unusual_whales This is a good idea across the board. People can complain all they want about the loss of utility but civilization has thrived for hundreds of years without children with smart phones in schools. Smart phones are a detriment to children. Read: The Anxious Generation

BREAKING: The UK will ban all smartphones from schools, per FT