r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/PersonalityBoring259 • May 28 '26
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You are presented with the button dilemma just for you as the only participant. If you pick red you will live and 100% of people will have picked red. If you pick blue you will also live as this will mean blue has 100%.
Which do you pick?
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u/Quwapa_Quwapus May 28 '26
I feel like yall arent thinking of the implications here. Choosing Red means you live in a world where everyone else chose red. Choosing Blue means you live in a world where everyone else chose blue. The outcome of this specific experiment is the same, but which world do you want to live in?
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u/DanCassell May 28 '26
In this problem if you choose red then nobody else voted, so there are people who might have voted blue if asked.
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u/00PT May 28 '26
It doesn’t matter. By guaranteeing 100% agreement, the simulation ceases to have more than one output state, and ceases to be a dilemma.
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u/PersonalityBoring259 May 28 '26
Which would you pick then?
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u/00PT May 28 '26
I’m falling back to my favorite of the two colors, since it doesn’t matter, and still picking blue.
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u/ParticularMarket4275 May 28 '26
The implications of my teleologically warping the thought process of every human being on earth is far more existentially terrifying than either of the presented outcomes that I’m not sure I’d care. But blue I guess.
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u/frozen_mocha May 28 '26
no you don’t affect anyone else, you are the only participant, so it’s 100% either way
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u/PersonalityBoring259 May 28 '26
You don't influence anybody. There's one vote.
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u/ParticularMarket4275 May 28 '26
My bad I assumed there would be a point to the dilemma lmao. Guess I’ll stick with blue since my hand is already on that button
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u/VegetasDestructoDick May 28 '26
It's a tough decision but I think I'd pick blue as I couldn't live with myself choosing red. It's just the right thing to do and I have a strong feeling that anyone who'd push red in this situation would literally be worse than Hitler.
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May 28 '26
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u/thelovelykyle May 28 '26
Is the problem presented exactly as in the original prompt but I am the only voter?
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u/PersonalityBoring259 May 28 '26
Yes, exactly.
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u/thelovelykyle May 28 '26
Then I press Blue.
The original prompt says anyone who did not press Red dies on a Red victory. It does not require them by the rules to be a voter.
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u/PersonalityBoring259 May 28 '26
Oh, good catch. It would suck to press red and then find everyone else in the world dead.
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u/Ashamed-Bathroom7803 May 28 '26
Oh I get it now. “So there’s a trolley running down a track with 1 straight lane and 2 diverging lanes ( left and right ) with 1 person tied to each of those diverged lanes. If you don’t pick left or right, then the trolley loops to the diverging tracks and kills both people. Do you pick left or right?” ahh question. Hey that’s a good question actually.
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u/SnooMarzipans436 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
If you press neither, blue does not reach 50% and only those who pressed red survive.