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▲ 5 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: Decrease risk, Increased threshold

All of humanity has been kidnapped and placed alone in a dark room with two buttons, and the following explanation perfectly translated into their native language.

🔴 : Ensures Survival, but will lead to half of blue pressers dying if more that 1/3 of people press this button.

🔵 : Everyone lives if 2/3 of people vote for Blue, but half of people who vote Blue will die if the threshold is not reached.

Everyone can only press one button once before both buttons break and becomes unpressable. Everyone is given 10 hours to vote, and if anyone chooses not to vote for any reason (including incompetence), then they are randomly assigned a button (2/3 chance of getting Blue, 1/3 chance of getting red.)

All of humanity means every living human being. There have been no exceptions for any reason.

Everyone has all of this information, and everyone is given 2 full hours to fully comprehend all of this information before they are allowed to start voting.

So, how do you vote?

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u/StageGlum6615 — 3 days ago
▲ 0 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: No matter what you do, Someone is going to die.

All of humanity has been kidnapped by super-advanced alien AI and has been randomly sorted into small dark rooms with all necessary things for a person to survive.

80% of rooms have a Blue and Red button with the following text perfectly translated into whatever the person can read (assuming that they can read).

Red: If I get more votes than the Blue button, then everyone who pressed me will survive this game, but anyone who pressed the Blue button or didn't press any button will face certain death. (A minimum of 10% of people will die if this wins. There is no maximum.)

Blue: If I get more votes than the Red button, then everyone will have to face a 1% chance of death (killing a minimum of 0.9% and a maximum of 1.1% of people.)

However, 10% of rooms have only the Blue button, and another 10% of rooms have only the Red button. (Although they do have the information that the other button exists and what it does.)

Everyone can only press one button once before both buttons break and becomes unpressable. Also, regardless of the outcome, the AI will reveal your choice to all people who survived, regardless of whether you survive or not.

Everyone is given 10 hours to vote, and if anyone chooses not to vote for any reason (including incompetence), then they are treated as a non-voter and don't add to either total. This doesn't grant any safety.

There are exactly enough rooms for every human to have their own room. (So, no wacky probability can happen with the assignment of the rooms.)

All of humanity means every living human being. There have been no exceptions for any reason.

Also, just to be crystal clear, voting Red doesn't protect you from a Blue victory.

Every room has all of this information, and everyone is given 2 full hours to fully comprehend all of this information before they are allowed to start voting.

(For this scenario, please assume that you are part of the 80% that has access to both buttons.)

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u/StageGlum6615 — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: One Red Dies

One day the entirety of Humanity was kidnapped and thrown into a dark room with the following two buttons.

Red: If a simple majority of people press the Red button than everyone who pressed the Blue button will die, immediately. On top of that, a single red voter will be killed at random.

Blue: If more people press the Blue button than the Red button everyone who Red and Blue button is spared from death.

Everyone is given a 24-hour time frame to make their own choice, and if they fail to vote in the time frame, they are counted as a Red button pusher.

If the Red and Blue buttons have the same number of voters, then it will be effectively the same as the Blue button getting the majority.

You can press only press one button, once before both button become inactive.

So, which button do you choose to press? Feel free to comment your reasoning (or anything else) below. (I like reading your comments.)

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u/StageGlum6615 — 1 month ago
▲ 12 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: You can do nothing.

Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown force that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. Everyone wakes up in a 15ft by 15ft room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue in the middle with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:

Red: If more people press the Red button than the Blue button, then everyone who pressed or was assigned the blue button will be killed.

Yellow: Everyone who pressed Yellow lives unless more than 35% of the total population chooses to press the Yellow button. If more than 35% of people press the Yellow, then every Yellow pusher will be killed.

Blue: If more people press the Blue button than the Red button, then everyone alive who pressed or was assigned the Blue button is spared from death. However, pressing the blue button will result in a painful electric shock that has a 0.5% chance of killing you.

Everyone is given a 10-hour time frame to make their own choice, and if they fail to vote in the time frame, they are equally distributed among the red and Blue buttons. (In the event of an odd number of non-voters, the extra person is assigned to Red.) (Also, those assigned to the Blue button will not receive the electric shock.)

The electric shock from pressing the Blue button can kill a max of 44,000 people. (This is to prevent statistical anomalies.) However, if you die to the Blue button, you still add to the total number of blue pressers.

If the Red and Blue buttons have the same number of voters, then it will be effectively the same as the Blue button getting the majority.

Once any button is pushed once, then all buttons are deactivated and can't be pushed, and it's impossible to press two buttons at the same time.

So, which button would you press in this scenario? Or do you not press any button and let others decide what happens?

(I ran this through a spelling and grammar checker. So, their shouldn't be any typos, but if any managed to slip through then I'm sorry.)

u/StageGlum6615 — 2 months ago
▲ 122 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: the Useless button.

Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown forced that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. (Let's call them Buttan, the god of buttons.) Everyone wakes up in a small cramped room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:

Red: If more people press the Red button the Blue button then everyone who failed to press red will die, immediately.

Yellow: Does Nothing.

Blue: If more people press the Blue button then the Red button everyone is spared from death.

Everyone is giving a 6 hour timer to make their own choice and if they fail to vote in the time frame they are counted and treated as a yellow button presser.

Lastly, it the event of a tie between Red and Blue, Blue wins.

So, does the useless button (yellow) change anything for you? And which button do you press?

(Please forgive any typos.)

u/StageGlum6615 — 2 months ago
▲ 79 r/redbuttonbluebutton

Variation: Three bad options.

Everyone (meaning all currently alive people) is kidnapped by an unknown forced that everyone instinctively knows is completely unable to lie and is far more powerful than them. (Let's call them Buttan, the god of buttons.) Everyone wakes up in a small cramped room with 3 buttons, Red, Yellow, and Blue with the following signs under each of them that have been perfectly translated into their native language:

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Red: If a simple majority of people press the Red button then everyone who failed to press red will die, immediately.

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Yellow: If a simple majority of people press Yellow then everyone over the age of five will have a 1% chance to be selected (and no more that 1.1% of the population can be selected) at pure random. Those who got selected will be given a mark on the back of their hand and will die 1 week after the vote.

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Blue: If a simple majority of people press Blue then everyone is spared from death. However, a database of everyone in the world is created revealing which button everyone had pressed and is made available to everyone and their is no way to prevent people from seeing the database. On top of that, Everyone will be kidnapped again next year and forced to press these exact same buttons again.

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Everyone is giving a 6 hour timer to make their own choice and if they fail to vote in the time frame they are randomly assigned buttons. (It’s worth noting that those assigned red will still die in a red victory because they didn't press the red button.)

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Lastly, it the event of a tie, Blue wins if it's a part of the tie, otherwise Yellow wins.

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So, which button are you pressing?

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(Please forgive any typos.)

u/StageGlum6615 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/CriticalState

Let's remove all AI from controlling our missile systems and deciding what targets to strike. That how you end up blowing up school children. We should also crucify the generals that put an unauthorized AI into our missile system..

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u/StageGlum6615 — 2 months ago