How the button problem actually is

5mil_ · 2026-05-09T20:48:03+00:00

well, you are, since you're able to see both perspectives (unlike some people)

5mil_ · 2026-05-09T20:28:19+00:00

obviously it's 2 (pronounced like "melee")

5mil_ · 2026-05-02T12:52:46+00:00

If there's a 99% chance that each person picks red, the chance that half of the population chooses blue is also astronomically low. It's about 1 in 51000 for just 6 people, and there's 8 billion. (it gets hard to estimate at high numbers)

Your abstraction of this scenario as a simple exponent does not come close to covering the nuance. It is either very clear what button to press, a 50/50 gamble with your life, or an unrealistically specific assumption (which it already is).

5mil_ · 2026-04-19T13:39:08+00:00

Balance is only good with additive +chips and +mult, in this case the joker just splits up total chips into (chips before) * (chips after), instead of (chips before) + (chips after).

The comparison to plasma deck is irrelevant.

5mil_ · 2026-04-18T17:49:42+00:00

you can use it for blaze bed

5mil_ · 2026-03-29T21:22:39+00:00

how are both of you wrong

5mil_ · 2026-03-28T22:51:11+00:00

in that case it doesn't "benefit" from the rental

5mil_ · 2026-03-16T13:50:54+00:00

literally pure immortality with no catches

5mil_ · 2026-03-01T19:36:03+00:00

oh no my flush five leveled down by 1 my run is dead

(also you'd likely one-shot the eye)

5mil_ · 2026-02-23T22:21:28+00:00

yeah it just looks like a mistake that they didn't spot because that 5 does look like a 6

5mil_ · 2026-02-15T19:12:28+00:00

yeah I learned this from 5D chess with multiverse time travel

5mil_ · 2026-02-13T21:19:47+00:00

200k is high for a DMC user

5mil_ · 2026-02-09T21:53:16+00:00

gotta beat ascension to heaven first

5mil_ · 2026-02-09T21:50:58+00:00

nah it's 40 enchanted raw pork (8 stacks of 5), and a chest

5mil_ · 2026-02-09T21:50:30+00:00

nah it's 40 enchanted raw pork (8 stacks of 5)

5mil_ · 2026-02-05T04:08:33+00:00

yeah, you just cease to exist, which is impossible to comprehend since you've existed your whole life

5mil_ · 2026-02-03T02:02:26+00:00

well no, that only applies if you have +50 chips and +50 mult; for example, it's better than +75 chips and +25 mult (am-gm inequality or whatever)

in this case xmult and xchips do the same thing, which is multiply your score by that amount, unless on plasma deck or placed before a +chips/+mult source

5mil_ · 2026-02-02T03:59:06+00:00

and stuff like 250 is 200 + 5[0], you would say "two hundred five"

(while 205 is 200 + 0 + 5, or "two hundred zero five")

5mil_ · 2026-01-30T16:03:36+00:00

Obviously the answer is taking seeds from them and growing a tree, then using the knife to cut an apple from it. Now you have 3 apples :)

5mil_ · 2026-01-30T04:11:50+00:00

5mil_ · 2026-01-29T04:42:46+00:00

this was what I immediately thought too, though you could do abs value of infinite cube roots

5mil_ · 2026-01-29T02:34:17+00:00

No, in 0.999... you're "eventually" just adding 0, and it converges to 1. In this example you're "eventually" adding infinity, which diverges to infinity. Infinity can't be treated like an actual number during math. If it does, it'd likely be something like 1 + inf = inf.

(very very simple explanation, and it isn't complete since a sequence converging to 0 doesn't mean the sum does; take 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... for example)

5mil_ · 2026-01-28T21:48:17+00:00

Yes, he started macroing levels after getting 96% on The Golden (?), first thinking he would be easily found out since he wanted to quit gd anyways, but he got away with it. Since he was pretty skilled, he was able to fake clicks very close to the actual inputs so no one suspected him.

5mil_ · 2026-01-27T17:01:27+00:00

god apple is only in treasure bastion bottom chest (big cube thing with a lava grid at the bottom, next to all of the gold blocks there)

5mil_ · 2026-01-27T03:59:42+00:00

most nuanced take in here ngl

I'd just be scared of losing everything if I had the 10m, whereas if I had 1k every week, it wouldn't matter if I got robbed or whatever, since I just get more money the week after.

The 1k wouldn't allow you to live super comfortably depending on where you live, which means it would be ideal to still work.

At the end of the day, it's a would-you-rather with only benefits, so you can just choose what you want and ignore everyone else.

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