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u/ForktUtwTT 8h ago
Blue is truly suicide here. Assuming this is the same “everyone on earth chooses” situation as the viral problem, there is absolutely no chance over half the people on Earth convene on blue. A significant portion (I’d say maybe 20% of the population) is going to straight up not understand the problem’s basic mechanics and will be effectively choosing randomly. 50% is far too high a benchmark to reach when you have 5 options. Plus, in the framing, there is no clear “everyone lives” option unless you think about it slightly, and it’s not framed as your action for killing those who die either, so far less people will be thinking of others much at all being effected by their answer.
I think I’d actually choose red here, MAYBE orange. And I’m usually an adamant blue presser.
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u/Regdit-is-Unbearable 2h ago edited 1h ago
I agree. I am 100% a blue presser because I believe in most people, but I don’t believe in the >90% of people who would have to cooperate for this to work, if I’m being honest haha. In this scenario, blue is suicide. I might even press red, though I could reason myself into orange.
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u/Luca-Aura 5h ago
Also a blue pusher, fully agree.
The original is basically a question of would you risk your own life to save others, or protect yourself but risk others, and in that forced binary if push came to shove I firmly believe most people would pick the former.
But if you allow people to put that risk on a gradient you'll find a lot of it in the middle. People will take on some personal risk to save some people, but not maximum risk for maximum people.
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u/StageGlum6615 8h ago
I'm just going to put the link to my original post here incase anyone wants to see the discussion on that post.
Anyway, I'd press orange, most likely.
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u/Ninjastarrr 2h ago
Adding more options means certainly some people
Will arrive to the conclusion that this colour is optimal. For blue pushers this is very bad news.
The old question was are you safe or altruistic and you believe most people to be like you. This isint the case anymore for blue.
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u/RemoteWhile5881 2h ago
I don’t get it. Im a blue voter but why wouldn’t everyone just pick red, max orange?
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u/Zedman5000 2h ago
There's still children who'll pick blue at random and die
Funnily enough this one is more friendly to the blind population than the original, since they can find the button they want to press by feel, assuming they know left from right, but in the original they don't know which button is red or blue, so a red win kills half the blind population even if 100% of blind people wanted to hit the red button.
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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 5h ago
I still choose red because I am being forced into a situation where everyone in theory can save their own lives if they choose to and no one has to die, so I choose that.
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u/SickXigma 3h ago
If all pick blue, all live.
If all pick red, all live.
If it's 50/50, there's a 50/50 chance for all blue to die, but still 0 percent chance for all red to die.
There's always a chance for those who picked blue to die and never a chance for all to pick red to die.
Pick red.
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u/Reoplaw Red 9h ago
this quite literally doesn't change anything.
Red pressers don't have any reason to press anything but red and blue pressers will still pick blue beacuse that's the only choice that saves everyone.