positronic guy

HASAN FINDS OUT THAT A MAJORITY OF HIS COMMUNITY (88%) DID NOT GET TAUGHT IN SCHOOL ABOUT WHAT LED TO PEARL HARBOR AND HE IS SHOOK

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.

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.

Something I noticed.

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?

The funniest thing about the blue button pushers is that they keep telling us about all the other people who are going to push blue: the illiterate, the illogical, people who have dementia or choose their favorite color... And that's supposed to make us want to save them!

— The Suicide Button — No need for a Red button at all. Just have a single (Blue) button labeled, “Press me to commit suicide by midnight.” And then in fine print it says, “Guaranteed to work unless more than 50% of humans end up pressing their button.” Are you suggesting it’s now selfish to not press the button? Because that’s exactly the Red button answer in the equivalent Res/Blue button case.

Imagine the button experiement was slightly different. There is no red button. Only a blue button sitting somewhere where everyone can see it. There's a sign on it that reads: "Pushing this button will kill you unless 50% + 1 of the population also push this button". Should you push the button? If you say no here, but yes to the original, what makes you think this is fundamentally different?

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?