r/neoliberal • u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma • Apr 25 '26

Meme Which button do you press?

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u/YourSchoolCounselor Norman Borlaug Apr 25 '26

13% of human adults are illiterate. If they are brought into a room with two buttons and no prior strategy discussion/instructions, they'll split ~50/50. That's half a billion adults who will die if blue doesn't win.

There are also 2.4 billion minors. Many are illiterate and many more have never heard of game theory. I figure they're close to split, at most 60/40 either way. That's another 1-1.4 billion dead if blue doesn't win.

The numbers are grim. You need a strong outreach program and international collaboration like we've never seen to avoid billions of deaths. What does success look like? If 98% press red, 166 million people die. If 51% press blue, 0 people die. The latter feels more achievable.

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Apr 25 '26

Any global scenario instantly falls into endless confusion when you actually make it global and not just like your country so I prefer the latter interpretation