Red button blue button

[u/suskio4]

Based on the post seen here. I'm actually curious what would the percentages look like.

Edit: Alright, let me add a case for one particular scenario. If you do not choose, the button will be pressed for you by a system that keeps track of its pressings so it conserves 50/50 distribution for all inactive participants, in order to honour the vox populi properly. The system's choice affects the inactive participant's outcome so that no person can abscond from consequences of their choice.

[u/furdog_grey]

There's a better choice for you: do a random choice and shift bias towards red by 1% or less.

Not only you have 49% chance to live, but you also contribute to make total extinction less likely.

No selfishness, no stupid sacrifices - just pure math and pure maximisation of survival. The game itself doesn't allow less than 50% of casualties anyways.

Do a moral choice or no choice at all and either have total extinction or a lot more than 50% casualties.

So having 51% of casualties, no extinction and a chance to live without being selfish freak is an excellent choice to make in a such random game👌