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

Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by davebren on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:03PM (#47915738)

Nah pretty much everyone picks red if it was a real scenario. It's also bizarre to call everyone picking red a sociopath because they don't want to gamble their life on some naive and idealistic view of humans.

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Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by selfhoster1312 on Monday April 27, 2026 @02:45AM (#47918446)

Believe what you want, the numbers disagree with you. As for the sociopath label, assuming psychopathy and sociopathy are the same thing, egocentrism and impaired empathy are central traits.

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Re:If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red press... by gus_massa on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:20AM (#47921227)

So I guess a sociopaths...

> the numbers disagree with you

It was a pool in X where people that press blue were not going to die. They just lied to feel better.

Try again with money, everyone puts $1000 so it's real but nobody dies. Red pushers get their money back, everyone if >50% press blue. I like my version where 10% have miss wired buttons, so the % of people that will vote "incorrectly" is inside the model. Send the lost money to an Khmer Rouge advocacy group so nobody feels good about losing the money.

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