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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I'm on team blue, except that this thought experiment doesn't allow for iteration, making it entirely unrealistic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/12/oooh-a-provocative-philosophical-conundrum/

@angus.bsky.social<!-- raw HTML omitted -->Elder daughter just told me about the red button / blue button ethical dilemma that's been going around, and | find it FASCINATING.<!-- raw HTML omitted -->Short version: Everyone on earth has to press a button. If a majority presses the blue button, everyone lives. If a majority presses the red button, everyone who presses the biue button dies.<!-- raw HTML omitted -->She told me about this, and my immediate response was "That's not interesting at all. Obviously everyone just pushes the biue button." And then she started explaining the red button folks' arguments, and |realized that it's a question about how you understand what it is to be a human in community.