@Mayzomatic They arent going to actually do that when push comes to shove and the entire third world including china and india are pressing red. Your not fighting against that successfully.
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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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@insertjokeh3r3 @MatMvB @gfodor the blue voters are obviously better people man, i know what side i'm on, i know who im trying to protect
if i lose you can stay here to clean up the 3 billion bodies with the wretched ones.
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“I would vote blue to save people who voted blue because they don’t understand the question but those who voted red because they don’t understand the question are horrible people”
Put it in the louvre, this is pure crystal-distilled tribalism
PoliticalAndy@AndyPolitical
@gfodor it was, you're just a horrible person that didn't pay attention to the question and would've killed a bunch of children
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@mnardone123 @SCHIZO_FREQ Because they bring up whataboutisms like babies the disabled and other people that cant really vote for own interests.
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@SCHIZO_FREQ What I don’t understand is why 100% of people wouldn’t pick the red button. Doesn’t seem like an interesting situation if everyone can survive picking the “selfish” option.
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People somehow don’t realize that posting about how you’d pick the blue button online is totally different than picking the blue button in real life
There is no actual downside to posting online about how you’d press the blue button
But if this example were made real life, pressing the blue button means actually risking your life
Everybody can pick the happy chungus meme option when there are no consequences, but if you think the results wouldn’t change substantially if people were actually staring down the barrel of the gun you’re just retarded
Peter Hague@peterrhague
Amazing how lots of self appointed game theory experts confidently asserting that blue is the stupid choice. But every time this poll is run blue wins. Not only is the “game theory” answer predicting the wrong outcome, its explanatory power is based on it being able to predict the right answer. So it’s doubly wrong.
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@peterrhague Nobody ever brought up game theory except you and the only one grandstanding about what they pushed is also you.
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It’s also worth noting that red voters have a stronger personal need to be vindicated in this scenario (look at the replies…) and so are probably more motivated to vote in this poll.
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Amazing how lots of self appointed game theory experts confidently asserting that blue is the stupid choice. But every time this poll is run blue wins. Not only is the “game theory” answer predicting the wrong outcome, its explanatory power is based on it being able to predict the right answer. So it’s doubly wrong.
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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@GoodFarmingAdam @MatMvB @gfodor No they arent they’re just retarded, niave and want to play at being a hero.
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@insertjokeh3r3 @MatMvB @gfodor the blues are doing their best to save the world, and the reds are doing their best to ensure only the third-world and den of thieves survive.
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@keirimin @ChrisHowald @BlackDumpling Nobody has ever said game theory. The only people bringing it up is you.
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@ChrisHowald @BlackDumpling The fact many reds are citing game theory as their logical basis and not any moral or ethical code indicates most you understand that it is in fact against your belief systems
You just don't want to examine what that says about you
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Publicly announcing I'm not responsible to keep stupid people alive doesn't confront me much. If you select the Blue button you do solely and exclusively to create a responsibility in others to preserve your life for you when you won't do it for yourself. That's not moral.
You force an unnecessarily gutwrenching choice onto others just so you can smugly tell yourself you're their superior because you'd super duper save them if the places were reversed when... NO, you're the only creating risk for others to begin with.
You had a chance to save everyone BY PICKING THE RED BUTTON. You elected instead to create a nightmare scenario for others.
No one is compelled to press the blue button. No one. It is purely voluntary. Which means if you did you KNOWINGLY created a scenario where other people would have to risk death just to save you.
You made the least moral choice possible and if you're willing to create a scenario that risks murdering billions then I have zero problem letting you go.
Unfathomable Studios@NfthmblStudios
publicly announcing you're a redbutton excises you from polite society, you might be useful 3nough to keep around as a side acquaintance, but now nobody can ever assume you'll do anything besides act to maximize your personal stake a stray flea-bitten dog, no more appropriate for an up and coming influencer
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@GoodFarmingAdam @MatMvB @gfodor Well first you have india which obviously around 90%+ red. then you have the entire continent of africa. Then you have the arabs who dont even let their woman make most choices for themselves so they arent gonna let others make a choice for them. More to so blues just unwinnable.
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@walasavagephoto @BlackDumpling Actually it saves everyone.
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@BlackDumpling Picking the red button saves nobody but yourself. Hope this helps.
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@CloudKenshiro @ErnestPlacido @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor most of the countries in the world have an average iq 80iq or below which is already borderline mentally disabled. Picking blue assumes those people all of which live in third world countries actually care about anything beyond themselves in the here and now.
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@insertjokeh3r3 @ErnestPlacido @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor The thing is, red side loves to make assumptions with nothing to back them.
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Rational people know intrinsically that everyone should press red, it eliminates any question of anyone dying
Irrational (emotionally-driven) people will be compelled to press blue because “it’s the right thing to do”
And the more you try to convince them otherwise the more they’ll dig in
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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@ErnestPlacido @CloudKenshiro @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor So you choose to contribute to dying and not helping. Shocker.
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@insertjokeh3r3 @CloudKenshiro @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor Then I pick blue to avoid the societal and economic collapse that will come after then. S.Korea and Japan are struggling with slow and gradual decline in birth rate. An immediate change in demographics is sure to collapse society. That can't be fixed in your life time.
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@PITTpersons @RudyAmbiento Every time a detransitioner speaks out you people harass them and tell them to kill themselves because you cant stand them existing.
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@RudyAmbiento Anecdata reddit screen cap? Totally legit👍
See row 18 of my pinned tweet.
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@ErnestPlacido @CloudKenshiro @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor Doesnt change that places like india are going to vote 95%+ red so you're already working uphill against the 2nd most populous country on the planet and everyone else like them. Your not gonna outvote that and more people will be born after.
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@insertjokeh3r3 @CloudKenshiro @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor Even if we assume they vote randomly (50%), that's half a generation gone. 1.3 billion children, over 10% of the population. That's half a generation not entering the workforce and paying taxes. This would cause total societal and economic collapse.
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@painmute @JustinMacmahan Its the opposite. Idiots are going to press red cause why would they risk it and the intelligent know that fighting against every third world country on the planet who vote red 99% is unlikely to work requiring too many blue votes and will vote red.
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It’s crazy how many people believe this 54% vote would hold up in real life. We clearly learned nothing from the last election. Nobody voting red in the poll would defect to the altruistic choice, but many blue voters will defect to red with their life at stake. Blue would lose
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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@CloudKenshiro @christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor You assume they would all vote blue which they wont. Either way its pretty easy to guess which countries are voting which way and in what ratio. to counteract the amount of red pushes would take big countries like the us to vote like 90+% blue which isnt happening.
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@PresidentToguro The red button society is explicitly high trust. A society built on guilt tripping everyone to vote blue so you dont die is a hellhole.
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Everyone talks about living in a high trust society, that would not exist in a red button one
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I'd pick blue because I'd rather live in a society of blue people than survive and live among red button SF vampires
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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red is an unbelievably phenomenally disgustingly selfish decision and i do not have theory of mind for anyone who would choose it
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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@christoaivalis @AbeLopezAuthor The blues are trying to use human shields again.
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@AbeLopezAuthor there are 700,000,000 humans under the age of 5
All of them have to press a button, and their parents don't know how they pressed
This means pressing red kills 350,000,000 young kids
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@ThePaulineIndex @Aella_Girl No the most moral is to push red and tell others to do that to because one, guilt tripping suicide is evil and two it could cause them to choose blue to save you.
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@LilUziVartan @robertgraham “Erm akshually” proceeds to make false equivalencies and spew other retarded posts to pretend to be smart.
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@robertgraham Correct, red is the incorrect choice made due to an irrational fear response. It's understandable but still incorrect, like running up the stairs instead of out the front door when chased by a monster.
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I keep seeing this in my feed.
No.
If it's a hypothetical question, when your life isn't actually on the line, most people choose "blue". More would choose "red" if their life were actually at stake.
Economists experience this all the time, where surveys asking people what they WOULD buy for a price differ strongly from what they actually DO buy when the price changes.
If we cut movie ticket prices in half, how many times more often would you go to the movies? What people answer on such a survey differs a lot from how they actually respond to changes in movie ticket prices.
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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@Shawn_Farash Im shocked that the group that never helped anyone and just lines their pockets does something like this.
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The NAACP is now defending the people who quite literally funded the KKK.
What a time to be alive.
NAACP@NAACP
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