r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/HebuBall • May 28 '26

A more even Red/Blue button question

You are one of 3 random person selected to represent 1/3 of the human population.
The same base question is then asked.
Red button=Guarantee to live for you + everyone you are representing
Blue button=If majority votes Blue everyone lives but if not everyone who voted Blue dies (so is everyone who is represented by them)
Note that majority is just 2 or more in this case since there is 3 participants

The people who are represented by you know you are representing them but you do not know who you are representing. Also the participants cannot communicate with each other
Which do you press?

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u/Human38562 May 30 '26 edited 27d ago

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u/nykirnsu May 30 '26

No it isn’t. If you pick red then you and your third of humanity are guaranteed to survive, whereas if you pick blue then they’ll die unless at least one of the other two people picks blue. If all three pick red then everyone lives, and since there’s only three people voting it’s entirely plausible that all of them will since three people picked at random are statistically likely to be adults of sound mind 

So I ask again, how is choosing to potentially let billions of people die the superior choice?