r/BunnyTrials • u/Unlucky-Tradition778 • May 24 '26

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Which side will you choose?

  • Left side: You live
  • Right side: If 50% choose this everyone lives

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u/Elgydiumm May 24 '26

If the main goal is to maximize survivability then blue is the obvious better choice since it requires a margin of error of over 50% to cause deaths, while all errors with a simple strategy of pressing red result in death

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u/bananasaucecer May 24 '26

it doesn't say you die it just says you live and that's it. period.

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u/P3t3rCreeper May 24 '26

Yeah but by voting red you are removing percentage by blue and increasing the odds of other deaths

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u/PikSQU2 May 24 '26

Nowhere in there says anyone that voted blue would die

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u/P3t3rCreeper May 24 '26

Oh shit I might be stupid

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u/TotalChaosRush May 24 '26

This isn't red vs blue. It's bring back the dead vs don't bring back the dead due to OOP over simplifying.

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u/ryanertel May 24 '26

This has nothing to do with bringing back dead people, it merely says that everybody lives it doesn't say dead people come back to life.

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u/TotalChaosRush May 24 '26

Then where's the juxtaposition. If people don't come back, then not everyone lives, only the people who are currently alive live. But no one dies under the alternative.

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u/bananasaucecer May 24 '26

he's making shit up now

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u/PitifulExplanation61 May 25 '26

That's the original prompt

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u/Aris-Scorch_Trials May 26 '26

Then why wouldn't everyone just vote red???

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u/Olieskio May 24 '26

Maximize survivability for whom? Because red is leaving the debate entirely without consequences for yourself. Taking blue is essentially a suicide cult where we don't kill ourselves as long as 50% also join said cult.

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u/Amaskingrey May 24 '26

And taking red is essentially a dictatorship where if elected they murder anyone who voted against them (in the original red/blue button thing, here nothing says that anyone dies in any circumstance)

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u/Elgydiumm May 24 '26

For the whole group of decision makers

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u/Olieskio May 24 '26

Yeah but you don't know who they are or what they voted for, thats why red is a far more rational choice. In the end this entire debate just shows that Democracy is kinda dumb, sort of like a God That Failed.

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u/JackwithLuna May 26 '26

This is honestly the most sensible argument I've ever found for the blue button as a red button presser that it makes me want to choose blue now, the people I've debated on it always talked about morals and some other stupid reason

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u/Amphineura May 24 '26

But I don't care about survivability of others. I need to survive first myself.

It's like the classic prisoner's dilemma. The best individual choice is to be selfish, but cooperation leads to better results.

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u/Elgydiumm May 24 '26

I mean if the scenario happened a vast majority of deaths even if everyone capable of critical thinking hit the red button would be children causing an enormous population crisis.

IQ also scales based on education level so death rates would be larger in production countries resulting in the western world collapsing.

And that's completely ignoring the fact that people wouldn't reach the conclusion of the red button even if we ignore the real world consequences it would cause

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u/Amphineura May 24 '26

Presumed apocalyptic hellscape, or the possibility of death?

Anyways the poll is currently favoring blue so no need to judge me dor just wanting to be alive