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has xo weighed in on the twitter red/blue button meltodwn amongst morons?
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:25 PM Author: hank_scorpio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844920) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Since op didn't explain for his xo bros, the thought experiment is: Everyone on earth is going to push a blue button or a red button. If > 50% push the blue button, everyone survives. If < 50% push the blue button, everyone who pushed blue dies and everyone who pushed red survives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844960) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:02 PM Author: oomox So it's just the prisoner's dilemma? I'd pick blue no question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845014) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:03 PM Author: hank_scorpio not really, red is just opting out entirely and blue is subjected all of humanity to the possibility of mass death (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845021) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:08 PM Author: oomox What? Either choice could condemn up to 50% of the population to death.
There are two ways everyone survives: 1) Everyone chooses red 2) >50% choose blue
Seems a lot easier to get to the "everyone survives" result with blue, and that's what a lot of us would prefer over guaranteeing our own personal safety. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:10 PM Author: hank_scorpio it is much simpler to simply opt out of the entire thing by choosing red, you could reword the expiriment with no red button and just say there is a blue one that subjects humanity to the possibility that 49% of people die and you can choose to hit it or not, no change in the actual moral calculus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845050) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:18 PM Author: oomox You can't just reword the problem because the decision has to do with what you think other people will do, which is sensitive to framing.
There are two issues with this framing anyway. First, "subjects humanity to the possibility" makes it sound like it's somehow random, not dependent on other people's choices. And you'd also have to specify that everyone else is being asked the same thing and that if you don't push it and other people do, up to half of the population, they'll die. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:21 PM Author: hank_scorpio yes, if you push you participate in the expiriment, if you don't, you don't leaving people to freely choose to do something insane is the correct call, hoping that mass insanity will save us all is...well a good cull |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:22 PM Author: oomox You're saying abstainers just wouldn't count at all toward the percentage that determines the outcome? That's a completely different problem. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845074) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:25 PM Author: hank_scorpio no, they count pricisely the same, they are not subjecting themselves to the expiriment, but the rest of the world is free to do so if they think they can get to 50%, which is fucking retarded (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845081) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:06 PM Author: podcat because you're bad at playing prisoner's dilemma? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845159) |
Date: April 26th, 2026 6:27 PM Author: gay screen addicted retard Yeah just kill all blues pretty straightforward
Too bad this will never happen irl and instead our civilization will just wither and die because all of these useless retards have been enabled to breed |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:30 PM Author: oomox edit nvm saw premise above (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844932) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:30 PM Author: hank_scorpio but virtue signalling on twitter is very important (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844933) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:45 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Oh the civilization (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844971) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:38 PM Author: Nazca Redlines It's an interesting exercise. Picking blue is my gut reaction for the right thing to do and what I'd do.
Side question: What portion of the world could minimally comprehend the issue? See xo scholarship re people who can't even comprehend and engage with a counterfactual. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:43 PM Author: Gavin Newsom Red is obviously the correct answer. If every single person picks red then every single person on Earth lives. Why would anyone pick blue given this fact? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844966) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:47 PM Author: gay screen addicted retard Consider the fact that many “people” are brainless retards who are incapable of independent thought and process everything through instinctive “moral” filters that correspond to absolutely nothing rational in the real world (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844983) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:48 PM Author: Nazca Redlines Is everyone coordinating? Thoughtful people willing to sacrifice for the common good are picking blue, and better not to lose them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49844986) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:09 PM Author: oomox (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845047) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:55 PM Author: Gavin Newsom I would need more than half the other people to pick blue for "the greater good", and if I'm wrong I outright die. Red's the only choice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845146) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:57 PM Author: Mideast "Peace" "Agreement" (No Future) Sure but all we need is for everyone to choose the option that’s in their best interest anyway. It’s not zero sum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845149) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:59 PM Author: hank_scorpio it's entirely about phrasing, it allows you to appear virtuous, but if you just framed it as "Trump has declared a MAGA hunger games, if you choose to participate there will be a winner take all battle royale where everyone else dies, if you choose not to participate you can just say no, but there is a caveat that if half the population chooses to do the hunger games the games are cancelled" and nobody picks that one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845007) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:37 PM Author: Nyolent Vigor Yup (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845125) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:23 PM Author: i gave my cousin head red is a win/win
any other choice is goybait |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 6:58 PM Author: Fucking Fuckface Pressing red as fast as I can and as many times as humanly possible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845004) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:21 PM Author: i gave my cousin head goy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845068) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:55 PM Author: Mideast "Peace" "Agreement" (No Future) Blue is my gut reaction but after a minute of thought it’s obvious red is tcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845147) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 7:58 PM Author: gay screen addicted retard https://x.com/refinedpopulist/status/2048444043701449150?s=46
Ran the Blue/Red experiment with three different groups this weekend. Every time:
> Men picked Red > Women picked Blue > Women admit they didn’t understand the rules, and all picked Red after having it explained.
Surely there are no broader implications we can draw from this. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:03 PM Author: '"'''''''''''''"' xo hypo: If +5% choose black everyone dies. If +95% choose white everyone lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845157) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:08 PM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., Lib nonsense because of the colors (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845163) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:10 PM Author: fear of a faggot planet (🧐) Is this a 2005 college board poast I time warped to after taking too big a hit off the gravity bong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845168) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:14 PM Author: cowgod With red you guarantee your survival? it'll be hard to not pick red. but you get a mass casualty event if blue doesn't get a majority. the split would be like 70/30 in favor of blue in the hypo. but IRL, a literal gun to your head, and red would do better imo, closer to 50/50. IF you get a chance to tell people you care about what to choose. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845183) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: podcat why would anyone push blue except on account of being suicidal? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845201) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:17 PM Author: peeface there's no upside potential here, only downside.
if you push red, no risk no reward.
if you push blue, huge risk, and no potential reward.
everyone should push red.
the only reason you would ever pick blue is if you assumed a lot of people were really fucking dumb and would push blue for no good reason and wanted to seriously risk your life as a tiny wee part of an effort to save these idiots.
i'd push red. |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:21 PM Author: hank_scorpio cr, pushing blue is like volunteering to be a gladiator in Rome just because if you overwhelm the system they'll stop the games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845202) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:24 PM Author: peeface the trolley problem, except instead of sending it down the clear track let's see if we can gum it up with our corpses
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:27 PM Author: Ass Sunstein Always bet on black (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845214) |
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Date: April 26th, 2026 8:34 PM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, if women really picked blue more often, it's like that tilted glass question where women cannot predict the water level. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5860807&forum_id=2...#49845229) |