Post #1754809
2026-04-28 12:57 UTC
If this isn’t pure engagement bait, what’s the real world situation this is supposed to map to? Pressing red means you always live, and if everyone pushes red everyone lives so…
I mean if blue is supposed to be a proxy for altruism, that usually doesn’t come with a certain death conditional.
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@corbin@awful.systems 2026-04-28 15:18
I rather like my examples because they iterate. If we don’t cooperate on food this year then we starve next year, so voting red only means one year of selfish life. If we don’t cooperate on water this year then we can try again in a subsequent year, but eventually a drought will wipe us out. Rationalists love to talk about iterated game theory but they’re so hesitant to recognize instances of it!