If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive
a month ago
- #decision-making
- #game theory
- #ethics
- If more than 50% press the blue button, everyone survives; otherwise, only red button pressers survive.
- The author argues it's immoral to encourage pressing blue, as empirical evidence and psychological factors suggest unlikely that >50% would choose blue in real-life scenarios, risking lives.
- Encouraging red ensures survival regardless, akin to advising against self-harm in an equivalent framing where blue represents shooting oneself with a conditional saving grace.
- The case for blue involves altruism and protecting imperfect decision-makers, but the author contends reaching >50% is improbable given human self-preservation instincts, making blue advocacy dangerous.