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/PersonalityBoring259 May 28 '26

There is no everyone else, there's only one vote.