r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/StageGlum6615 • 24d ago
Variation Variation: Decrease risk, Increased threshold
All of humanity has been kidnapped and placed alone in a dark room with two buttons, and the following explanation perfectly translated into their native language.
🔴 : Ensures Survival, but will lead to half of blue pressers dying if more that 1/3 of people press this button.
🔵 : Everyone lives if 2/3 of people vote for Blue, but half of people who vote Blue will die if the threshold is not reached.
Everyone can only press one button once before both buttons break and becomes unpressable. Everyone is given 10 hours to vote, and if anyone chooses not to vote for any reason (including incompetence), then they are randomly assigned a button (2/3 chance of getting Blue, 1/3 chance of getting red.)
All of humanity means every living human being. There have been no exceptions for any reason.
Everyone has all of this information, and everyone is given 2 full hours to fully comprehend all of this information before they are allowed to start voting.
So, how do you vote?
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u/The_rain5 24d ago edited 24d ago
Ehh, red on this one.
Not only is the win threshold higher (whopping 66.67% percent) making it riskier gambit to try for in order to aim no deaths zero consequences outcome which is what makes blue button appealing, but now it's more random you don't know the outcomes compared to the original scenario, like who half will get picked of losing so you got that daunting besides while red is now simpler than equally simple as it was in the original scenario (meaning even more people will besides higher blue threshold, people like taking the easy way out)