red button vs blue button dilemma

[Azvohuf]

Every person in the world is given a pad of 2 buttons. if more than half the population presses blue. everyone survives. if more than half the population presses red, only those who pressed blue will die.
- Paraphrased xitter post
Lets make it more interesting.
There is a deadline of 240 hours before the votation is done.
You can choose not to press anything, but once one is pressed you cant undo it
The buttons are tangible matter that spawn conveniently where youll see them and will not noclip anything , like in front of you, or behind you if theres a person infront of you.
Your buttons can be pressed by anything, even other people.
The pad of buttons indicates the last button pressed. thats the vote that counts, so you could choose a button, drop the pad at the last second and chose another
imagine the propaganda, accidents, everything

 

[Moths]

I saw this on facebook this morning too my man, congrats.

I didn't read your post tho

 

[Haloperidol]

None of the extra details really change anything. Press red, either everyone lives or everyone with a brain gets to live in a world with way fewer hand-wringing smoothbrains risking death to heckin save everyone.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

There is no downside to push red and no reason to press blue

 

[We Are The Witches]

There is no downside to push red and no reason to press blue

I think their point with the new premises, is that you can troll others → "you could choose a button, drop the pad at the last second and chose another".

Also, other people pressing your button so that you potentially die.

This has nothing to do with morality or game theory, but more about practical chaotic scenarios.

 

[Shapes]

Fuck you, you are a complete nigger

 

[GZX_ULTRA]

real question is:

what does the green button do ?

 

[Azvohuf]

None of the extra details really change anything. Press red, either everyone lives or everyone with a brain gets to live in a world with way fewer hand-wringing smoothbrains risking death to heckin save everyone.

ive seen this too many times, saying red is better because caring about others is bad and somehow making it political

reminder that you can choose to never press any button and survive, but you have to hide your pad and dont let anything press them for 10 days

Fuck you, you are a complete nigger

maybe ill shill less obnoxiously in the chat next time geg

 

[Nutty_Professor_Enjoyer]

what does the eradicates-every-faggot-on-earth button do? I come from the country of Namibia btw so forgive me if I don't understand your white creations

 

[Haloperidol]

ive seen this too many times, saying red is better because caring about others is bad and somehow making it political

I think way too many people conflate a complete lack of self-preservation with being ‘caring.’ If that sounds political maybe Reddit is your speed, they have all kinds of stupid scenarios like this you might enjoy.

 

[Azvohuf]

I think way too many people conflate a complete lack of self-preservation with being ‘caring.’ If that sounds political maybe Reddit is your speed, they have all kinds of stupid scenarios like this you might enjoy.

blue button: coin toss
red button: billion-faced dice
im sure everyone would press blue anyways. but in this scenario id press nothing and hide my pad

 

[UnFuNnYmEmE]

jeets and niggers will press red

 

[Azvohuf]

bump

 

[We Are The Witches]

I think way too many people conflate a complete lack of self-preservation with being ‘caring.’ If that sounds political maybe Reddit is your speed, they have all kinds of stupid scenarios like this you might enjoy.

What if your demented family member pressed blue, because they don't know any better? Or your kid, let's do that, they managed to press the button before your advice.

I mean, this is a fantasy scenario, so imagine for one second that you have a heart, difficult I know, and that you care about them, you cannot change their option for them.

Would you start a social media movement telling people to press blue so that they save your child? Or are you letting them die for being a RETARD!

 

[Gregis]

no reason to press blue

yes there is, you press blue if you want to die, it just won’t work if too many people choose that

 

[Billy Herrington "Aniki"]

press the red button to watch blue button pushers die

 

[pork and beans]

a self-driving train runs through its tracks. Everybody in the world is transported near them to train watch. You can choose to watch the train, or to jump to the tracks; if enough people choose to jump, the tracks themselves will break and nobody will be killed by the train.

What do you choose?

see how stupid that sounds without the button framing lol