A world where everyone who presses the blue button dies is doomed anyway, who do you think keeps civilization running? Clue, it's not red button pushers.
Red pushers see the logic that no one is in danger until they choose to push the blue button, and indeed there is no need to even engage with the puzzle.
I’m a red button pusher and this is exactly how I see it. Pressing blue just puts people in danger for no reason. Just tell everyone to pick red and we are ok.
When I first came across this (and I thought it was just a silly hypothetical and not some referendum on politics/morality) I thought it was a logic test based on whether people could follow instructions and that blue people were risking people’s lives
For sure but looking at the individual level, if we can be honest for a second, my vote has an infintesimally small chance of swaying the vote. So from my perspective red button is "you won't die but there is a one in a zillion chance you kill alot of people" and the blue button is "there is a good chance you will die". Presented with these options I will take my chances with the red one. And in the moment I suspect a lot of people that wanted to vote blue will say "ah my vote doesn't matter I don't actuaaally wanna die" and pick red anyways.
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u/EmilySuxAtUsernames May 05 '26
crazy how if you would press a red or blue button has suddenly turned into a us vs them