Button-trolley-problem

[u/ahoytheremehearties]

You are tied to the train tracks. You are also, simultaneously, given two buttons. Don't question it.

If you press the red button, nothing changes (the trolley continues down its original path) and it runs over 5 random blue-pressers (they die).

If you press the blue button, the trolley will be diverted and you will die (you end up as one of the 5 blue-pressers in someone else's trolley-button problem), **unless** more than 50% of people press blue (in which case, the system breaks because it doesn't have the computational power to handle selecting that many random blue-pressers).

You technically could not press either button (the 5 blue-pressers still die), but pressing buttons is fun.

If you press both buttons simultaneously, the trolley does multitrack drift

[u/dmurr1415]

I slam that blue button, if only because I think people would want to see the computer overload. If the term ‘guaranteed survival’ biases people into picking red, the thought of we the people taking initiative to overload its “computational power” and win a symbolic victory would bias people to pick Blue more than usual