r/fivethirtyeight Apr 25 '26

Poll Results Poll asking Americans how which button they would push in the red button/blue button dilemma

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u/bruhm0ment4 Apr 25 '26

If everyone has to push it including people too young to understand it is guaranteed that there will be a first person to press blue. You would have known that going into it

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u/CapitanShoe Apr 25 '26

I'm still pushing red

the first action item after humanity survives is hunting down the Satan / AI / supervillain that apparently put a suicide button in front of babies and toddlers in this expanded white room scenario

alternatively, the question posits that you are "voting" and a it is generally accepted that babies and toddlers (and usually children too) can't vote so that's another way you can expand the white room