If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
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Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#2I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#3I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
Choosing the red pill isn't selfish, it's logical. There is no good reason for choosing blue. If everyone goes red, everyone's fine. If the rest of the world wants to try to collaborate on blue for some reason good luck to them. Not my problem. It's safer and simpler to go red.
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#4I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
Choosing the red pill isn't selfish, it's logical. There is no good reason for choosing blue. If everyone goes red, everyone's fine. If the rest of the world wants to try to collaborate on blue for some reason good luck to them. Not my problem. It's safer and simpler to go red.
Yes, I’d guess the Nash equilibrium is everyone chooses red.
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#5At time of writing, this is 65 blue, 35 red.
My instinct was to choose blue, but thinking about it, red is the safer choice with 100% survival rate.
Am wondering if it is the phrasing. For blue it only mentions “live”, but red also mentions “dies”.
> Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill.
- if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives
- if not, red pills live and blue pills die
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#6At time of writing, this is 65 blue, 35 red. My instinct was to choose blue, but thinking about it, red is the safer choice with 100% survival rate. Am wondering if it is the phrasing. For blue it only mentions “live”, but red also mentions “dies”. > Everyone responding to this poll chooses between a blue pill or red pill. - if > 50% of ppl choose blue pill, everyone lives - if not, red pills live and blue pills die
Yeah I think the results would be different if it were phrased in terms of consequences to the individual:
If you choose red pill, you are guaranteed to live. If you choose blue pill, you will die if less than 50% of people also choose blue pill.
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#7I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
It's not selfish to choose red in this case.
One way has a chance to die. The other way has no chance to die. And the safe choice doesn't force anyone else to suffer the fate you avoided. They can and should choose red too.
No one anywhere should pick blue, not because of "stupid, let someone else take the fall" reasons, but because there is no reason for anyone to take the fall, and the benefit from choosing red does not come at the expense of forcing someone else to choose blue.
Basically the scenario was not as well constructed as the asker probably wished.
Re: If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
#8I don’t think I’d want to live in a world populated only by people who took the red pill.
It's not selfish to choose red in this case. One way has a chance to die. The other way has no chance to die. And the safe choice doesn't force anyone else to suffer the fate you avoided. They can and should choose red too. No one anywhere should pick blue, not because of "stupid, let someone else take the fall" reasons, but because there is no reason for anyone to take the fall, and the benefit from choosing red doe…
> Basically the scenario was not as well constructed as the asker probably wished.
I think it was perfectly constructed, it showed that 65% of the poll answerers are either illogical or liars.