Question stolen from Twitter:
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
my choice and rationale
Blue button because it’s the superior moral choice. Moreover, the red button world becomes shithole tier hell with all of the genuinely cooperative people eliminated. High trust is gone and you have global izzat chicanery. May God have mercy on red buttoners.
re: my choice and rationale
re: my choice and rationale
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
> If an absurd hypothetical, that literally never happened....
But it didn't happen, and you knew it won't. So, pressinng red is the selfish option, and you knew it would be.
re: my choice and rationale
re: my choice and rationale
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
Do you understand the concept of world existing outside of your "everyone agrees with me" framework?
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
Pressing red assumes that everyone is as selfish as you, or that people are not worth saving.
Pressing blue is hoping that at least 50% of people are good people.
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
There is no potential bad outcome, if everyone pushes blue either.
Do you seriously not see, that you wrote a tautology?
You wrote a "there is no bad outcome in 0.001% of cases" while I said that there is no bad outcome if just 50% of people are good.
Imagine if 51% of people vote red? That’s the end of the world. If blue wins that’s a feel-good moral victory, but we have a perfect solution.
If the titanic is sinking, but we have enough lifeboats for everyone, why doesn’t everyone just get in a lifeboat? No one has to be left behind or risk anything.
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
And that worst outcome is exactly, where your thought process lead us to though :D
if 80% of people vote red, that’s the end of the world. Blue would partly be made up of suicidal/people doing it for the lolz, but the majority would be people who feel morally bad about contributing to the death of others. Humanity would be worse off without those people. In a big way.
@Griffith @BowsacNoodle
And yes, I know, that the entire question is a framing issue, but a truly interesting one.