De Blasio should have hit him with that Zhou Enlai
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
Wall Street CEO shocks mayor with knowledge of the subway
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Tarnished Ryan
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@InternetTalking That’s clearly a punishment given the amount of rationalization and changing the hypo red-pressers are doing.
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@ry3564 "Your punishment is feeling like a big meanie."
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It’s funny because Red button pushers are free riders taking a defection strategy when Blue is the actually correct game theory rational answer. Lots of Dunning-Kruger rationalists out there.
taoki@justalexoki
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@MrDustyBowl @choffstein “Let me fundamentally change the thought experiment to remove the stakes from my preferred choice so I feel better.” Cope more dissenter.
GIF
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Red button is not save yourself, red button does nothing. Red button exists only so blues can blame reds.
Stop labeling reds as killers. Blue button kills blues. You might not like it, but this is what the choices actually are when you remove the weird phrasing of the original dilemma:
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The red/blue button discourse today has made one thing very clear: framing matters.
Case #1:
Blue Button is labeled: "Save Everyone (if <50% people hit this button, you die)."
Red Button is labeled: "Save yourself."
Case #2:
Blue Button is labeled: "Die (unless >50% of people hit this button)"
Red Button is labeled: "Live"
Case #3:
Blue Button is labeled: "Pacifist"
Red Button is labeled: "Killer (blue button pressers die if >50% people hit this button"
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@InternetTalking Your punishment is either living in a world where your choice contributed to mass death or knowing that you chose mass death and are part of the anti-social minority.
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@ry3564 Wrong. The whole schtick of the red-blue button game is that the individual punishment for mutual defection is gone.
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@CoGs61963545669 Blue is choosing to cooperate so no one dies. By your logic, it’s not rational to ever choose to have children because pregnancy induces unreasonable risk to the everyday norm.
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Tarnished Ryan ری ٹویٹ کیا
Every time this goes around the funniest part is watching the reds freak the fuck out because on some level they all know they only exist because a thousand million times in their ancestral history people chose blue
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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Tarnished Ryan ری ٹویٹ کیا
the joke on the reds is that in real life, blue-pressers who are willing to expensively signal compassion and loyalty end up living in high trust communities while vice-signaling red-pressers die alone and mad screaming "but if everyone just"
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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@vers_laLune No, only the red option guarantees an individual lives. Only the blue option guarantees everyone lives, because in the real world blue will certainly be chosen (e.g. a kid will pick blue bc it’s his favorite color, colorblind person, illiterate people)
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at the risk of opening myself up to this bullshit question again, I need to emphasize, that only the red option guarantees everyone lives, but your moral posturing is forcing you to kill yourself
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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My wife added an interesting twist: whatever button you pick shows up above your head for the rest of your life.
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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@HistoryBoomer There is a problem (keep everyone alive) and the options are a solution that requires 100% compliance and one that requires 50% compliance. Yet a bunch of morons keep insisting the 100% compliance option is the smart one.
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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!
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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@CovfefeAnon @justalexoki The red button is "rational" button, the blue is "emotional" button.
There is a message in this. For most people emotional framing is more important than rational explanation.
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My neighbors just had a baby who cries for 16 hours a day but guess which one of us is getting a lease violation?
I feel like you should have to disclose to potential tenants if anyone on that floor is thinking about getting pregnant, because I would not have signed this lease.
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Ask media pundits to condemn actual murder and theft rather than their hysteric perceptions of a twitch streamers opinions. Difficulty: impossible.
Nada Maucourant Atallah@MaucourantNada
We spoke to reporter Zaynab Faraj, who survived a triple-tap attack that killed her colleague, Amal Khalil. She described how an Israeli strike first hit a car ahead of them, killing two civilians, before a second strike targeted their own vehicle, severely injuring Amal. Ms Faraj said she helped her into an empty house, where they lay wounded and terrified, waiting for help. A third Israeli strike then hit the building where they were hiding, collapsing it on top of them. “Amal was gone,” Ms Faraj said. “And I was left alone.” Throughout the ordeal, the journalists made repeated calls for help. But Israel prevented the Lebanese Army and the Lebanese Red Cross from reaching them, informed sources told us.
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2028 is going to be the first presidential campaign where a candidate outsources their speeches and media entirely to AI.
Rahm Emanuel@RahmEmanuel
We can either be a country of gamblers — or a country of builders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. China is investing in AI, quantum computing, and life sciences. We’re cutting research funding and losing talent overseas. China doesn’t win because they’re better — we lose because we forfeit the game. It’s time to tax prediction markets and online sports betting to invest in American science. Let’s bet on America — not against it. wsj.com/opinion/trumps…
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Congrats Republicans, you get Dershowitz! A legal mind like no other! Someone truly interested in uplifting America’s young people!
Wall Street Journal Opinion@WSJopinion
I am a lifelong Democrat. But the Democratic Party has become the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history. Until something changes, I will vote Republican for representative, senator and president, writes Alan M. Dershowitz on.wsj.com/4sNylmn
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The delusion is Olympic-level. You turned a pre-approved light show into “punk rock rebellion” because it matches your performative outrage playlist. Real courage would be logging off instead of farming 19k likes for caping a band that doesn’t know you exist. Your bio screams “I get bothered easily and pretend I’m deep,” and this post proves it you’re not a revolutionary, you’re a nostalgia tourist with a VPN and too much time.
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For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never set foot in Coachella again! I'm so proud of them #Strokeschella
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FIFA is a corrupt organization and is at fault here, but the stories that come out of the World Cup on American public infrastructure are going to get us demoted to Second World country at least.
The New York Times@nytimes
From @TheAthleticFC: New Jersey Transit confirmed on Friday that World Cup match goers will be charged $150 for a return rail trip from New York's Penn Station to MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this summer. Tickets are ordinarily priced at $12.90. nyti.ms/4sHcLzR
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