Shane

Two buttons lie before you Button A - if you can get 50%+1 of people to agree with you, no one dies Button B - if you can get 100% of people to agree with you, no one dies

All the red button pushers are mad but as you can see by the results, they lived. And they will live to cry about it.

Red is unambiguously the "game theoretically correct" position, but it's actually encouraging that the majority still picks Blue, because it means that a majority of people are willing to take on meaningful personal risk to save their neighbor, which I think is beautiful

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.

Nuclear-powered shipping is so obviously the right solution, it pains me we didn’t go this direction decades ago: - 10,000x fuel-density: less space for fuel, more cargo, more revenue. - 5-10 yrs between refuels: less stops, longer or new routes, higher uptime. - 7,600 U.S. military naval reactor-years: nuclear at sea is already proven. - 440 civilian land reactors: no reason civilians can't do it at sea as well. - Already proven with NS Savannah. - No dirty exhaust. Can't wait to see what Nick and his team do to push this forward.

every time this goes around I’m honestly flabbergasted by this justification for picking “red” everyone won’t do that. like that’s just an empirical fact. moreover the fact that there’s discourse about it should immediately prove that to you. many, many people will choose blue

I think the strongest argument for blue button is that if even like 30% or 40% press blue (but <50%), that's basically an apocalypse scenario, total societal collapse and you'll probably die soon anyways. But imo this goes beyond the main hypothetical?

CM Punk will be very dangerous if he has a live mic this week he was very fond of Kairi this stuff needs to be called out.

There are roughly 1.6 billion children under the age of 12. The question boils down to will these children press the button on their own or do guardians get to influence or press on their behalf. If the children are on their own, pressing blue is the moral imperative.

Reds are so high iq that they can’t think hard enough to understand that many kids will choose at random, people won’t read hard enough to understand if everyone hit red everyone lives, etc. Blue obvious choice if you value living in a society at all. We do have an obligation to not wipe other people off the earth if it’s preventable.

For those claiming that voting red isn’t a symptom of selfishness, imagine a variant of this where your vote doesn’t determine your own life, but the life of a random person assigned to you...

Great example of where abstract game theory breaks down. Normal people will push blue, normal people won’t jump into a wood chipper!

“If everyone just pushes red they survive” Well if everyone just pushes blue we all survive too so what now

The calculus to press red is, to put it kindly, short-sighted idiot math. It begins and ends with “what input gives me the best odds of living” with no regard for what the world you’d be living in - where everyone you can trust is dead and everyone else knows it - would look like

why is no energy drink company making uncaffienated drinks??? i wanna drink 10 alani's a day without dying.

Getting retirees into gaming and off of Fox could save the brains of a whole generation.

ok starting a thread of bad national parks, next up: Saguaro NP. This is the photo they put on postcards. It's like a thousand middle fingers saying "ha ha you wasted your vacation on a cactus, idiot":

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today?