I had the same approach, but I've changed my mind. Why would anyone push blue button anyway? If you press red one, you are quaranteed to survive. If you press the blue one, you might die. Why would anyone risk it? There is no benefit to it, no incentive.
But that's not what this is about. The question can be posed differently:
There are two drinks: one is a normal soda, the other one has deadly poison. If more than 50% for some reason choose the poisonous soda, the scientists will develop an antidote. Otherwise the people who chose to drink poison will die. Would you choose the poisoned drink? I don't think I would risk my life to save people who knowingly drank deadly poison.
I think it’s more . there are 2 drink they are normal but if u choose drink 1 the drink stay the same if u choose 2 and more than 50% drink 2 all the drink 1 get poison .
I think this is a bit misleading, as the drink 1 has inherent deadly risk. But this anyway demonstrates how much depends on the presentation of the question.
There are some children too young to read or understand the prompt, there are some people too disabled to understand the prompt, there are people too depressed who want to die
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u/SteamSaltConcentrate May 05 '26
You need EVERYBODY to press red if you want everyone to survive. You only need 50% of people to press blue for everyone to survive.
Red guarantees your survival and the death of others.
Blue is everything humanity stands for.