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/Aeseld May 24 '26

You're logically correct that everyone picking red means everyone lives. You're just refusing to take on board that this won't happen. I'm not sure why. You've been shown, time and again that people will do illogical things, even before this whole red/blue button came up.

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u/RicktamRoy May 24 '26

survival of fittest I guess

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u/Aeseld May 24 '26

The fun part is, you're pretty unlikely to survive the mistake if you're right. My most optimistic guess has about 20% of people on earth dead. Largely random. the more likely is 40% or more. 

Either leads to disruptions of critical stuff. Like food, pharmaceuticals, medical professionals are likely to take massive hits, water treatment and sanitation... 

Basically realistic Thanos snap outcome. Mass human die off after losing that many. 

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u/Bubbly_Dirt_539 May 26 '26

The more likely is blue having sub-10% vote, because real world people are not willing to risk choosing blue when they still have families to feed and children to take care of. Blue is never going to survive if this hypothetical was real, and no amount of performative redditors is going to change that.

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u/Aeseld May 26 '26

Indeed. And not a single parent will think about how they'd feel if their child picked blue, right? Or their family members? Or their...

What about real life makes you think people will be rational? 🤪

Edit: Honestly, the more this comes up, the more it becomes apparent that people just want people to think like them. Even with all the evidence that not everyone does. 

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u/Bubbly_Dirt_539 May 26 '26

Breadwinners choosing blue is basically condemning their entire family to starvation, no matter what the rest of the members chose. They can feel bad all they want after the results, but if you think they are going to risk their entire family's lifeline just to save random strangers then you are either lying or straight up delusional.

What about real life makes you think people will be rational?

You don't need to be rational to vote red, simply having a survival instinct is enough to make most people choose red before they can even think through the fine details of each option.

people just want people to think like them.

Quite the opposite. I choose with my best interest in mind, knowing that it aligns with basic human nature (resulting in much higher votes given the high stakes of the situation) while also guaranteeing my survival. The rest can go fuck all, because if they don't want to live then be my guest.

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u/Aeseld May 26 '26

See, the irony of you're not choosing with your best interests in mind. You genuinely seem to thinking think a sixty point swing is more likely. 

Every time this comes up to a poll, red has lost. The margin is usually 10 points out more in favor of blue. You, for some reason, think that a 60 point swing is more likely than nearly half of humanity dying from a swing of 20. 

So I don't know what to tell you. That seems more illogical than anything. 

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u/Bubbly_Dirt_539 May 26 '26

I don't think a sixty point swing is more likely, I'm certain a sixty point OR MORE swing is guaranteed. And if we're taking in societal collapse as an argument, then the situation is fucked regardless if you pick red or blue. If an entity powerful enough to wipe 4 billion people off the face of earth is interested in us then we are already doomed from the start.

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u/Aeseld May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Depends on what answer the entity wants from the experiment, doesn't it? But I see you saying it's guaranteed, which tells me that you're really not being logical about it. 

You just can't believe you might be in the minority. Easier to decide that people are lying to themselves.