If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive

Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by selfhoster1312 on Sunday April 26, 2026 @05:30PM (#47914765)

Same as with the original dilemma. Most people are not sociopaths and will choose to cooperate with empathy for everyone else. That's just how species survive and adapt. (1) Alternatively, some people believe that sustained cooperation is in itself a sustained equilibrium. (2)

Most of the world is not as individualistic as Silicon Valley engineers believe in their own ivory towers after decades of reading Ayn Rand.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut...

(2) https://www.optimallyirrational.com/p/the-true-story-of-the-...

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Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by riffraff on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:05AM (#47919681)

but in the original dilemma you have an advantage by taking a choice at the disadvantage of the other.

But there is no advantage here to pick blue, nobody should pick blue because if we all pick red we all win.

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Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by selfhoster1312 on Monday April 27, 2026 @12:02PM (#47923351)

Somewhat true, though in my view ensuring everyone lives sounds like a fair advantage. An interesting variant would be if >50% vote red, only those who voted red die.

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