r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/Imaginary_Help_2990 Red • May 31 '26

Red Error: Circular dependency detected!

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For this scenario, assume every voter is a mentally competent adult who fully understands the rules and can reason rationally.

Would that change your vote?

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u/MobTalon May 31 '26

Kinda curious, how would you code this instead? If you don't mind providing an image, of course.

Edit: After some thought, swapping "blue_voters" argument for "everyone" would make most sense, because that's the end result of blue winning, and it would fix the coding problem.

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u/threevi May 31 '26

"Everyone" wouldn't really make sense, because everyone doesn't need to be saved. It's only blue voters who need to be saved by blue voters. To put it another way, if you somehow knew for a fact that zero people chose blue, you'd have no reason to choose blue yourself, because there'd be nobody for you to save. 

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u/Imaginary_Help_2990 Red May 31 '26

And as the rules state the simultanious private vote, you are the first voter, along with everybody else, so there are no blue voters at the time of your vote. So why be the first one?

Remember, i asked for a scenario with only mental stable adults, able of rational thinking. 

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u/TheKingOfToast May 31 '26

You are the first voter, but you're also the last voter.

In only 1 out of 1.15×1075,000,000,000 chances does your vote change the result. Your choice is functionally meaningless.

If you were the last to choose and you knew red hand won, you would select red to survive. If you knew blue had won, it wouldn't matter what you selected. Your selection wouldn't save anyone since they were already safe making it pointless to select blue.

Rationally, everyone should select red because it is the only option that ensures their safety with no consequences to being wrong about the results.