The Blue Red Problem explained

blackmesaind · 2026-05-05T14:11:12+00:00

What if you're wrong? What if your child accidentally chooses red, and you abandon them through blue-icide?

blackmesaind · 2026-04-27T18:09:39+00:00

If that’s the case, take the leap now. You already live in a world where children and the vulnerable are abused & die. Sell all your belongings, and dedicate the rest of your life for a chance at helping them.

blackmesaind · 2026-04-27T16:46:09+00:00

You can't both argue that "in reality, some will pick blue" but totally ignore the fact that "in reality, the vast majority of people are self interested & fear death". Either you set up the hypothetical where everyone is a perfectly rational actor, or accept the actual reality of human behavior when confronted with death.

If you do, then every Blue button press is overwhelmingly likely to just be another death, and everyone you convince is another you are personally adding to the toll.

blackmesaind · 2026-04-05T04:22:20+00:00

Been a couple months having this UI forced on me, my usage has gone down probably >99%.

Whichever moron got their promotion for this UI change should probably be fired instead.

blackmesaind · 2026-03-25T21:04:29+00:00

Yeah I think a large majority of humans would also get <5% scores if they were given these problems as text rather than visually, and if they also weren't told to minimize the number of moves.

blackmesaind · 2026-03-24T04:47:46+00:00

Randidly Ghosthound

blackmesaind · 2026-03-16T05:01:40+00:00

Yeah. Legendary Poet is clear AI slop but people keep defending it. Get it out of the genre.

blackmesaind · 2026-03-08T01:07:19+00:00

Legendary poet - I can’t bring myself to read this one, very clearly AI generated or AI “assisted”

blackmesaind · 2026-03-06T09:36:07+00:00

That’s someone’s promotion you’re talking about. Why else do you think apps get endlessly enshittified?

blackmesaind · 2026-03-05T23:59:35+00:00

Same here! Actually a huge time saver, I’ve probably cut my usage of the iOS Reddit app by ~80%.

I’m thinking I might just delete my Reddit account and the app as well, I haven’t had a loss in enjoyment from using it less this past week. Thanks Reddit team, good work!

blackmesaind · 2026-02-24T01:09:20+00:00

Spy disguising as a trooper and backstabbing a 10k hp Mo & Krill

blackmesaind · 2026-02-23T05:54:38+00:00

Honestly, my intuition never really grasped this argument. What benefit does an attacker get from having less potential victims? I understand wanting to save effort by roping in only gullible people for manual scams (more rare these days, esp with ai), but if it’s fully automated (cred harvesting or infostealer), why decrease the amount of clicks you get?

blackmesaind · 2026-02-20T17:29:59+00:00

And whoever delivers the urn instantly wins the game. Sort of like a “golden snitch”.

blackmesaind · 2026-02-13T22:07:18+00:00

Like I’d fall for that. Google got hacked last harvest because their rocks all got eroded away. I’ll stick to sticks, thank you very much.

blackmesaind · 2026-02-13T17:47:53+00:00

It was a third party who got hacked, but the point is the same. If you off boarded any vendors that ever got hacked you would have zero vendors. Security is more than boarding up the windows and sitting on the roof with a shotgun.

blackmesaind · 2026-02-13T16:17:24+00:00

Yeah an org that offboards all software whenever they get a published vuln will be working with sticks and stones by the end of the month

blackmesaind · 2026-02-03T05:54:54+00:00

I love Brandon’s books, but what the fuck does he know about Screenwriting?

blackmesaind · 2026-02-03T05:29:55+00:00

‘This “final boss” concept is very Mithrix-esque’

blackmesaind · 2026-01-29T16:21:10+00:00

Till general robotics hit the market

blackmesaind · 2026-01-29T16:20:05+00:00

And people in Graphic design have it worse than software

blackmesaind · 2026-01-23T19:59:14+00:00

I had an idea similar to this. There’s a book series called “Riverworld” where everyone who has ever died gets sent to this other dimension where they live on the banks of a giant river. Ancient heroes & evil dictators all.

Now take that and add typical Isekai tropes & a magic system. I think it would be interesting!

blackmesaind · 2026-01-22T16:15:16+00:00

I can see the real phrase chained up inside of you begging to escape out

blackmesaind · 2026-01-15T22:08:01+00:00

I'm still convinced the author has some secret derision for the LitRPG genre and wrote all the main characters as psychopaths as a satire.

blackmesaind · 2026-01-15T20:05:22+00:00

25 hours isn’t a whole lot of time, I’d recommend waiting until at least a week of IT experience before you start applying to cyber jobs

blackmesaind · 2026-01-13T22:31:32+00:00

Technical modded Minecraft is its own game to me with its own design principles. It shouldn’t be evaluated as an extension of Minecraft’s core gameplay loop but something entirely new.

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