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has xo weighed in on the twitter red/blue button meltodwn amongst morons?

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soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
Since op didn't explain for his xo bros, the thought experim...
aromatic sienna rehab
  04/26/26
So it's just the prisoner's dilemma? I'd pick blue no questi...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
not really, red is just opting out entirely and blue is subj...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
What? Either choice could condemn up to 50% of the populatio...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
it is much simpler to simply opt out of the entire thing by ...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
You can't just reword the problem because the decision has t...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
yes, if you push you participate in the expiriment, if you d...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
You're saying abstainers just wouldn't count at all toward t...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
no, they count pricisely the same, they are not subjecting t...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
OK, assuming you tighten up the language to make it parallel...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
there's a tiger cage, but you can't see in to it or tell wha...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
That's another framing where the answer is "hell no.&qu...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
what you wrote is incoherent jump in the cage or press t...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
You got it backwards bro
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
i don't think i did
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
Pushing red would keep me alive
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
look up "or" in a dictionary?
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
Oh cr
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
"A native metal or its compound with the rock in which ...
the discombobulator
  04/28/26
because you're bad at playing prisoner's dilemma?
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
prisoner's dilemma is different than this. this has a pathwa...
avocado irradiated native
  04/26/26
It has two pathways, yes.
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
Yeah just kill all blues pretty straightforward Too bad ...
Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma
  04/26/26
edit nvm saw premise above
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
but virtue signalling on twitter is very important
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
Oh the civilization
180 domesticated sweet tailpipe property
  04/26/26
It's an interesting exercise. Picking blue is my gut reactio...
aromatic sienna rehab
  04/26/26
Red is obviously the correct answer. If every single person ...
Costumed resort
  04/26/26
Consider the fact that many “people” are brainle...
Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma
  04/26/26
Is everyone coordinating? Thoughtful people willing to sacri...
aromatic sienna rehab
  04/26/26
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mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
I would need more than half the other people to pick blue fo...
Costumed resort
  04/26/26
Sure but all we need is for everyone to choose the option th...
Filthy copper temple
  04/26/26
it's also obvious from this thread many people will pick blu...
balding black woman
  04/27/26
Because it feels mean and selfish so people would rather cho...
stimulating buff university windowlicker
  04/28/26
it's entirely about phrasing, it allows you to appear virtuo...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
Yup
walnut step-uncle's house mediation
  04/26/26
red is a win/win any other choice is goybait
Bisexual emerald parlour cumskin
  04/26/26
"Do you pick red or blue?" "But I did have...
Filthy copper temple
  04/27/26
Pressing red as fast as I can and as many times as humanly p...
olive skinny woman filthpig
  04/26/26
goy
Bisexual emerald parlour cumskin
  04/26/26
Blue is my gut reaction but after a minute of thought it&rsq...
Filthy copper temple
  04/26/26
https://x.com/refinedpopulist/status/2048444043701449150?s=4...
Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma
  04/26/26
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Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat
  04/26/26
xo hypo: If +5% choose black everyone dies. If +95% choose w...
orchid titillating lodge
  04/26/26
Lib nonsense because of the colors
Galvanic Hunting Ground Milk
  04/26/26
Is this a 2005 college board poast I time warped to after ta...
tripping mint corner reading party
  04/26/26
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supple masturbator becky
  04/26/26
With red you guarantee your survival? it'll be hard to not p...
lavender circlehead casino
  04/26/26
why would anyone push blue except on account of being suicid...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
they're thinking of the aftermath with billions dead and jus...
lavender circlehead casino
  04/26/26
but why would billions die. what's the reason for even a si...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
Blue = banding together for the common good. For a lot of us...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
what common good? pushing blue doesn't accomplish anything ...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
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violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
Exactly, possibly saving people who push blue. If your moral...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
there's a button labeled "push this button and you'll d...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/26/26
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Filthy copper temple
  04/27/26
because like 10+% of people are going to pick blue no matter...
lavender circlehead casino
  04/26/26
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mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
this is actually a very good explanation cowgod. people are ...
idiotic depressive faggot firefighter
  04/27/26
Then add in the savior complex types pushing blue for some c...
Costumed resort
  04/27/26
there's no upside potential here, only downside. if you ...
violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
cr, pushing blue is like volunteering to be a gladiator in R...
soggy market legal warrant
  04/26/26
the trolley problem, except instead of sending it down the c...
violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
If the problem included the premise "everyone on Earth ...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
it still would make no sense. press the blue button and ...
violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
Why 50/50? This isn't a logic puzzle with a correct answe...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
on the twitter poll where there was nothing at risk but feel...
violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
You might be right. Personally I am very stubborn about mora...
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
i'd rather you not die. please press red.
violent insecure nursing home half-breed
  04/26/26
That's actually very sweet, thanks bro.
mildly autistic hall idiot
  04/26/26
red is the strictly dominant strategy
Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat
  04/27/26
Always bet on black
ivory voyeur prole
  04/26/26
if women really picked blue more often, it's like that tilte...
Gold sticky theater stage
  04/26/26
based, and red-buttoned
chestnut trip karate brunch
  04/26/26
Isn't this just the hypo in Dark Knight with 2 ferries that ...
Exhilarant onyx principal's office
  04/27/26
No but thanks for self outing as a bluemo
the discombobulator
  04/28/26
on reflection this would be the perfect Darwinian event, the...
Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat
  04/27/26
yeah and there would be 90% men. way to go, einstein
sealclubber
  04/28/26
You think 90% of women would actually press the blue button?...
Gavin Newsom
  04/29/26
yes. hitting blue gives everyone a chance to survive, hitti...
sealclubber
  04/29/26
if you model it as a binomial probability problem (assume ev...
Concupiscible whorehouse
  04/28/26
blue for 2 reasons: 1) it probably wins 2) even though...
Passionate Well-lubricated Set
  04/28/26
Wow, you, uh...really showed them
Fucking Fuckface
  04/29/26


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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844920)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:41 PM
Author: aromatic sienna rehab

Since op didn't explain for his xo bros, the thought experiment is: Everyone on earth is going to push a blue button or a red button. If > 50% push the blue button, everyone survives. If < 50% push the blue button, everyone who pushed blue dies and everyone who pushed red survives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844960)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:02 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

So it's just the prisoner's dilemma? I'd pick blue no question

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845014)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:03 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

not really, red is just opting out entirely and blue is subjected all of humanity to the possibility of mass death

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845021)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:08 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

What? Either choice could condemn up to 50% of the population to death.

There are two ways everyone survives:

1) Everyone chooses red

2) >50% choose blue

Seems a lot easier to get to the "everyone survives" result with blue, and that's what a lot of us would prefer over guaranteeing our own personal safety.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845045)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:10 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

it is much simpler to simply opt out of the entire thing by choosing red, you could reword the expiriment with no red button and just say there is a blue one that subjects humanity to the possibility that 49% of people die and you can choose to hit it or not, no change in the actual moral calculus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845050)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:18 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

You can't just reword the problem because the decision has to do with what you think other people will do, which is sensitive to framing.

There are two issues with this framing anyway. First, "subjects humanity to the possibility" makes it sound like it's somehow random, not dependent on other people's choices. And you'd also have to specify that everyone else is being asked the same thing and that if you don't push it and other people do, up to half of the population, they'll die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845065)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:21 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

yes, if you push you participate in the expiriment, if you don't, you don't

leaving people to freely choose to do something insane is the correct call, hoping that mass insanity will save us all is...well a good cull

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845067)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:22 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

You're saying abstainers just wouldn't count at all toward the percentage that determines the outcome? That's a completely different problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845074)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:25 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

no, they count pricisely the same, they are not subjecting themselves to the expiriment, but the rest of the world is free to do so if they think they can get to 50%, which is fucking retarded

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845081)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:32 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

OK, assuming you tighten up the language to make it parallel to the original, it does become a harder question. Again, it's literally a different question because the entire thought experiment is about anticipating other people's decisions, which depends on the precise wording they're presented with.

With your "opt in" framing, the thought process for normal people is, "How likely is it that half of the country would risk their own death to MAYBE protect the people who are stupid/suicidal/sadistic enough to push the button? And based on that, am I willing to risk mine?" – I think I'd have to abstain in that case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845357)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:42 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

there's a tiger cage, but you can't see in to it or tell what's going on in there until you jump in. if enough people jump in, they'll be able to save all the people who jumped in. otherwise anyone who jumps in will get killed for sure by the tigers. do you jump in to help out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845390)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:15 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

That's another framing where the answer is "hell no." It ultimately comes down to the fact that it's optional. The trolley problem and all its variants show that people have way different moral intuitions about action vs. inaction.

Action vs. inaction also explains why hank scorpio's example elicits more of a "why would anyone possibly push it?" than the red vs. blue. You need the red button in the hypo because you're taking an action by pushing the button. That action could condemn all the blue pushers to death.

So I think that the blue pushers are thinking about each button in terms of the possible consequences to themselves AND other people, and they want to avoid the consequences to others by going for the "save everybody just in case" option. The question is whether you think more than 50% of people have the collective interest in the group that biases their moral calculus against taking actions that hurt others. Blue pushers think that ultimately most people will put themselves at risk to get to the Good Ending; red pushers don't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845451)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:35 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

what you wrote is incoherent

jump in the cage or press the red button

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845625)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:45 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

You got it backwards bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845649)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:46 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

i don't think i did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845653)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:48 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

Pushing red would keep me alive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845655)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:53 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

look up "or" in a dictionary?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845666)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:54 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

Oh cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845670)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 10:48 PM
Author: the discombobulator

"A native metal or its compound with the rock in which it occurs"

So ur saying maybe there's a rock in the tiger cage that you can bash it with to increase ur survival odds?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49850136)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:06 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

because you're bad at playing prisoner's dilemma?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845159)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:42 PM
Author: avocado irradiated native

prisoner's dilemma is different than this. this has a pathway for everyone to win

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845392)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:19 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

It has two pathways, yes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845462)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma

Yeah just kill all blues pretty straightforward

Too bad this will never happen irl and instead our civilization will just wither and die because all of these useless retards have been enabled to breed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844927)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:30 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

edit nvm saw premise above

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844932)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:30 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

but virtue signalling on twitter is very important

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844933)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:45 PM
Author: 180 domesticated sweet tailpipe property

Oh the civilization

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844971)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:38 PM
Author: aromatic sienna rehab

It's an interesting exercise. Picking blue is my gut reaction for the right thing to do and what I'd do.

Side question: What portion of the world could minimally comprehend the issue? See xo scholarship re people who can't even comprehend and engage with a counterfactual.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844953)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:43 PM
Author: Costumed resort

Red is obviously the correct answer. If every single person picks red then every single person on Earth lives. Why would anyone pick blue given this fact?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844966)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:47 PM
Author: Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma

Consider the fact that many “people” are brainless retards who are incapable of independent thought and process everything through instinctive “moral” filters that correspond to absolutely nothing rational in the real world

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844983)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:48 PM
Author: aromatic sienna rehab

Is everyone coordinating? Thoughtful people willing to sacrifice for the common good are picking blue, and better not to lose them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49844986)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:09 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845047)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: Costumed resort

I would need more than half the other people to pick blue for "the greater good", and if I'm wrong I outright die. Red's the only choice

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845146)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:57 PM
Author: Filthy copper temple

Sure but all we need is for everyone to choose the option that’s in their best interest anyway. It’s not zero sum

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845149)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 9:52 AM
Author: balding black woman

it's also obvious from this thread many people will pick blue. most people look at this hypo and kneejerk pick blue. seems like the option is between picking blue and being safe and having "participated" in risking mass death or picking red and putting yourself at risk but having "opted out."

i think most people would pick blue in this hypo if it were real and death was on the line. red is an easy choice to make when you know this isn't real and just a hypo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846225)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:07 PM
Author: stimulating buff university windowlicker

Because it feels mean and selfish so people would rather chose an option that is probably suicidal. See also the last ~60 years of Western politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49849901)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:59 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

it's entirely about phrasing, it allows you to appear virtuous, but if you just framed it as "Trump has declared a MAGA hunger games, if you choose to participate there will be a winner take all battle royale where everyone else dies, if you choose not to participate you can just say no, but there is a caveat that if half the population chooses to do the hunger games the games are cancelled" and nobody picks that one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845007)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:37 PM
Author: walnut step-uncle's house mediation

Yup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845125)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:23 PM
Author: Bisexual emerald parlour cumskin

red is a win/win

any other choice is goybait

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845076)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 8:02 AM
Author: Filthy copper temple

"Do you pick red or blue?"

"But I did have breakfast today"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846022)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:58 PM
Author: olive skinny woman filthpig

Pressing red as fast as I can and as many times as humanly possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845004)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:21 PM
Author: Bisexual emerald parlour cumskin

goy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845068)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: Filthy copper temple

Blue is my gut reaction but after a minute of thought it’s obvious red is tcr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845147)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: Dull Spectacular Garrison Friendly Grandma

https://x.com/refinedpopulist/status/2048444043701449150?s=46

Ran the Blue/Red experiment with three different groups this weekend. Every time:

> Men picked Red

> Women picked Blue

> Women admit they didn’t understand the rules, and all picked Red after having it explained.

Surely there are no broader implications we can draw from this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845150)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:03 PM
Author: Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845548)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:03 PM
Author: orchid titillating lodge

xo hypo: If +5% choose black everyone dies. If +95% choose white everyone lives.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845157)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:08 PM
Author: Galvanic Hunting Ground Milk

Lib nonsense because of the colors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845163)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:10 PM
Author: tripping mint corner reading party

Is this a 2005 college board poast I time warped to after taking too big a hit off the gravity bong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845168)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:28 PM
Author: supple masturbator becky



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845348)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:14 PM
Author: lavender circlehead casino

With red you guarantee your survival? it'll be hard to not pick red. but you get a mass casualty event if blue doesn't get a majority. the split would be like 70/30 in favor of blue in the hypo. but IRL, a literal gun to your head, and red would do better imo, closer to 50/50. IF you get a chance to tell people you care about what to choose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845183)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

why would anyone push blue except on account of being suicidal?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845201)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:34 PM
Author: lavender circlehead casino

they're thinking of the aftermath with billions dead and just wanting to take the high road idk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845364)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:38 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

but why would billions die. what's the reason for even a single person to press blue

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845376)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:47 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

Blue = banding together for the common good. For a lot of us, the desired outcome is for nobody to die. So you can get there with 100% red or 50% blue.

It's kinda like getting the vaxx when it first came out if you believed that it actually worked. Like "I'll put this untested thing in my body in order to help Stop the Spread for the most vulnerable among us."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845397)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

what common good? pushing blue doesn't accomplish anything except (possibly) saving people who push blue. so what is the reason for anyone to push blue in the first place?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845409)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:55 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845419)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:28 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

Exactly, possibly saving people who push blue. If your moral calculus highly values avoiding harm to other people, you're going to approach this with the goal of nobody dying. There are two ways this can happen: everyone pushes red or 50%+ push blue. Everyone on Earth is there, so it'd be crazy to assume no one would push blue for any reason. So a lot of us figure, let's shoot for the far more achievable way of making sure nobody dies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845471)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:33 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

there's a button labeled "push this button and you'll die, unless half of humanity bails your dumb ass out" and you're like "i must press that button" lmao

well, bye

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845621)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 8:01 AM
Author: Filthy copper temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846021)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:47 PM
Author: lavender circlehead casino

because like 10+% of people are going to pick blue no matter what. every single "choice" is 50/50 irl. Like 50% of people support Open Borders. That's just what people do. Trump beat Kamala by like a couple million votes in the popular vote. If you aren't "autistic" and realize that people do the shit that people do in predictable and illogical ways, you can see why you'd want to pick blue and have the aftermath be Normal instead of Ruinous.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845398)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 9:50 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845401)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:15 PM
Author: idiotic depressive faggot firefighter

this is actually a very good explanation cowgod. people are generally dumb and irrational, you can't expect normies to act like lsatmaxxing robots.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846759)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 10:15 PM
Author: Costumed resort

Then add in the savior complex types pushing blue for some cow-eyed reason and it'll be 14% blue, all dead. Absolutely no reason to join them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49847997)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:17 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed

there's no upside potential here, only downside.

if you push red, no risk no reward.

if you push blue, huge risk, and no potential reward.

everyone should push red.

the only reason you would ever pick blue is if you assumed a lot of people were really fucking dumb and would push blue for no good reason and wanted to seriously risk your life as a tiny wee part of an effort to save these idiots.

i'd push red.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845189)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: soggy market legal warrant

cr, pushing blue is like volunteering to be a gladiator in Rome just because if you overwhelm the system they'll stop the games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845202)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:24 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed

the trolley problem, except instead of sending it down the clear track let's see if we can gum it up with our corpses



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845211)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:34 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

If the problem included the premise "everyone on Earth is an ideally rational actor," there would be a correct answer: red, for the exact reason you said. No risk no reward vs. huge risk no reward.

But in this problem, everyone on Earth is there, and you have to think about what other people are going to do. On the individual level, I guess you could say that everyone who chooses blue is either stupid, suicidal, or sadistic and it's NBD if they die. But people aren't thinking of it like, "why would anyone choose blue?" – they're thinking of it like, "surely some people are going to choose blue, so let's do what we can to make sure we all survive."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845490)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:38 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed

it still would make no sense.

press the blue button and you individually move it 1/4,150,000,000th of the way closer to that line but accept a 50/50 chance of death for doing it.

press the red button.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845497)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:47 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

Why 50/50?

This isn't a logic puzzle with a correct answer where you can calculate expected outcome assuming rational actors. (Those are way more fun.)

This ultimately comes down to how you think other people think. If you think the majority of people would say, "let's just band together and make sure no one dies" then you push blue. If your thoughts are more like, "why would anyone choose the one that could kill them?" then you push red.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845517)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:51 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed

on the twitter poll where there was nothing at risk but feels, it came down to 42/58. if it were actually real life and death at stake 50/50 seems optimistic.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845530)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 10:57 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

You might be right. Personally I am very stubborn about moral shit and would push blue for sure but I also acknowledge that I might die.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845535)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:11 PM
Author: violent insecure nursing home half-breed

i'd rather you not die. please press red.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845560)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:28 PM
Author: mildly autistic hall idiot

That's actually very sweet, thanks bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845606)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:12 PM
Author: Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat

red is the strictly dominant strategy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846745)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:27 PM
Author: ivory voyeur prole

Always bet on black

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845214)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Gold sticky theater stage

if women really picked blue more often, it's like that tilted glass question where women cannot predict the water level.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845229)



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Date: April 26th, 2026 11:28 PM
Author: chestnut trip karate brunch

based, and red-buttoned

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49845605)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:10 PM
Author: Exhilarant onyx principal's office

Isn't this just the hypo in Dark Knight with 2 ferries that can detonate other one?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846737)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 10:57 PM
Author: the discombobulator

No but thanks for self outing as a bluemo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49850150)



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Date: April 27th, 2026 1:13 PM
Author: Pink multi-colored private investor kitty cat

on reflection this would be the perfect Darwinian event, the evaporation of the billions of blue-button-pushers would instantly raise the globe's average IQ by 10-15 points

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49846748)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:39 PM
Author: sealclubber

yeah and there would be 90% men. way to go, einstein

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49849979)



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Date: April 29th, 2026 4:11 AM
Author: Gavin Newsom

You think 90% of women would actually press the blue button? First of all that would be 45% of the population as a whole which is awfully close to the 50% needed for everyone to survive. Secondly, women are risk-averse survivors. They might say they'll press blue on Twitter without thinking much but if the stakes were real, literal gun to their head etc. they're pressing red.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49850548)



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Date: April 29th, 2026 5:30 PM
Author: sealclubber

yes.

hitting blue gives everyone a chance to survive, hitting red does not. women are not risk-averse survivors. women are women. they are emotional. they will not risk killing others even if they fully understand the implications of hitting red or blue.

i'm hitting blue with this hypo. what's the worst that can happen?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49852218)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:34 PM
Author: Concupiscible whorehouse

if you model it as a binomial probability problem (assume everyone has the same probability of pressing blue and presses are independent), much of any bias towards blue or red makes the probability of pressing the decisive blue press essentially zero. this isn't quite right, but it's more right than wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49849966)



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Date: April 28th, 2026 9:37 PM
Author: Passionate Well-lubricated Set

blue for 2 reasons:

1) it probably wins

2) even though humans are shit, if you press the red button and it somehow wins, you will end up with the worst of humanity left which means humans you interact with will be even shittier on average

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49849972)



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Date: April 29th, 2026 5:36 PM
Author: Fucking Fuckface

Wow, you, uh...really showed them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2/en-en/#49852242)