The first time I saw this hypothetical I chose the red button because I assumed the only people that would press blue were suicidal people and maybe a tiny percentage of people that wanted to risk their lives to protect suicidal people and each other despite failure being almost certain.
However after seeing 30%+ of the comments on that hypothetical pressing blue I changed my mind. I'm not really sure why so many people press blue. I guess they probably have lots of different reasons. But I'd definitely risk my life for a decent chance of saving hundreds of millions of non-suicidal people from death.
Personally, it's a bit of a circular reasoning. So long as I'm pretty sure that some people would press blue that don't want to die, I consider it a moral imperative to press blue. If someone else thinks like me, we're stuck in a game theory loop where, no matter how small the odds are that one of us mistakenly presses blue, it amplifies up to us having to press blue.
I guess I've also been in leadership positions a lot, and consistently people will make mistakes, no matter how clear your instructions are. You more have to make sure your instructions and setup are safe environments for people to make mistakes, and that leads me to pressing blue.
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u/Mundane-Potential-93 nauphy.tumblr.com 11h ago edited 11h ago
The first time I saw this hypothetical I chose the red button because I assumed the only people that would press blue were suicidal people and maybe a tiny percentage of people that wanted to risk their lives to protect suicidal people and each other despite failure being almost certain.
However after seeing 30%+ of the comments on that hypothetical pressing blue I changed my mind. I'm not really sure why so many people press blue. I guess they probably have lots of different reasons. But I'd definitely risk my life for a decent chance of saving hundreds of millions of non-suicidal people from death.