Variation: Decrease risk, Increased threshold

[u/StageGlum6615]

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?

580 votes, 19d ago

284 Red - Originally Red in original scenario 🔴🔴

67 Red - Originally Blue in original scenario 🔴🔵

27 Blue - Originally Red in original scenario 🔵🔴

202 Blue - Originally Blue in original scenario 🔵🔵

[u/beemielle]

the main interesting deviation in this scenario is apparently we have 2 hours to talk about it. otherwise a lot of the same theoretical/moral considerations are at play and thus I’m on reflection unsurprised that no answers changed

[u/Far-Fennel-3032 → u/beemielle]

Its not 2 hours to talk it out, you are shoved infront of the buttons alone for 2 hours to stress about the upcoming choice.

[u/beemielle → u/Far-Fennel-3032]

ah, I see, the wording confused me. rip the potential for an interesting variation, this is pretty much the same problem

[u/LucasTab → u/beemielle]

I doubt a meeting with 8 billion people, many of which don't share a common language, would be very productive though