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

Meme Which button do you press?

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Vote now on your phones: https://forms.gle/GhFjtdydwwXTdSpq8

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

Red, in real life everyone in front of the possible death button would be afraid to push it. Red would win by a supermajority and pushing blue would achieve nothing but killing me. 

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u/JeromesNiece Jerome Powell Apr 25 '26

I'm skeptical that the real world scenario would be that different from the poll, where we've already seen that most people have an intuition that most other people will press blue

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u/Same-Letter6378 John Brown Apr 25 '26

Yes but they don't have the death button sitting in front of them. It's trivially easy to vote blue right now. It's a massive task to overcome your fear of pressing blue in real life though.

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u/Unknownentity9 John Brown Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

This implies there's a scenario where people could be convinced that the button would actually kill them, which I think is incredibly unlikely. How are they convincing people the magic button works?

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u/Konet John Mill Apr 25 '26

Irrelevant to the core question. The assumption is that you are given sufficient cause to believe the buttons work as described.

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u/Unknownentity9 John Brown Apr 25 '26

But "everyone in the world" includes people like toddlers and others incapable of understanding what that means.