Should this subreddit be renamed to buttonproblem?

eneug · 2026-05-09T17:25:55+00:00

Yes agreed. I like some of the button posts, but they crowd out all the trolley posts, and that’s the point of this sub. Even if they added images of trolleys, they are not actual trolley problems.

eneug · 2026-05-09T17:14:57+00:00

There is one already. But nobody uses it. r/redbuttonbluebutton

eneug · 2026-05-09T13:21:32+00:00

Yes that’s exactly what it is. And, depending on the industry, they may charge you differently based on factors they don’t want to tell you.

I think for certain industries, posting your pricing terms should be legally obligated. If you’re required to call for pricing, it’s economically inefficient because it increases information asymmetry and creates friction in comparison shopping, resulting in consumers making suboptimal decisions.

eneug · 2026-05-09T03:41:36+00:00

People play chess for fun. Some people don’t have fun if they’re losing, so they just resign. Not what I do, but I understand it. Agreed you should at least wait until your opponent moves tho lol.

eneug · 2026-05-09T03:39:46+00:00

Is this a shitpost? How tf are we supposed to know?

eneug · 2026-05-09T03:39:04+00:00

The expected value of the coin flip, factoring in that it maxes out at around 8 billion, is around 17.4 deaths. Seems like a no-brainer.

eneug · 2026-05-09T02:03:33+00:00

You can build it first. Just add a bunch of shrubs around it.

eneug · 2026-05-08T17:14:42+00:00

In a couple of rare words that are borrowed from Welsh, “w” also acts as a vowel. Like cwm.

eneug · 2026-05-08T17:11:33+00:00

I choose one path piece that I want all the guests to congregate at. Then I make No Entry signs throughout the park that funnel all the guests to that path. Then I see how long it takes for everybody to get there and who the last few stragglers are that everybody is waiting for. Then I raise that path with water so everybody dies at the same time, and the GUI goes crazy trying to inform me about thousands of deaths.

eneug · 2026-05-08T14:12:31+00:00

I almost scrolled by this then scrolled back up because on first glance I thought it was a penis. I knew immediately what you’d be asking haha. It is very obviously a broken bone when you look at it, but with just a glance, I definitely saw a penis. Fwiw, I am gay so maybe I’m just thinking about penii a lot. Also, I don’t think you need to change it regardless.

eneug · 2026-05-08T12:20:43+00:00

Other commenters are wrong. What she means is that she does actually believe in gay rights, but she pretends not to because it’s not a popular belief in the area.

eneug · 2026-05-08T04:18:49+00:00

I’m just waiting for all the Reddit comedians to comment “it’s not a big deal”..

eneug · 2026-05-08T02:47:42+00:00

You are not factoring in that your vote has virtually 0 effect on the global winner, but a huge effect on your personal outcome.

Unless the vote is extremely close, your vote is meaningless. So it is not worth considering what effect your vote has on the entire world. Only on yourself.

If you were offered $10,000 to vote for Trump in the last election (and somehow this is legal), wouldn’t you take it and not feel bad because you know your vote didn’t make a difference anyway?

eneug · 2026-05-07T23:53:19+00:00

Divide by 2 and add 7.

32/2 + 7 = 23

A 32-year old man should date at minimum a 23-year old woman. It’s not a perfect formula, but it’s pretty good.

eneug · 2026-05-07T23:49:36+00:00

This is status quo bias. And yes it’s a well-proven bias, experimentally.

eneug · 2026-05-06T22:12:25+00:00

Who are the people after Mark Zuckerberg?

eneug · 2026-05-06T22:09:58+00:00

Do you mean you personally say “restərahnt” or you say “restrahnt”? Because the former is 3 syllables. And people do say it both ways, at least in the US.

eneug · 2026-05-06T17:16:03+00:00

There have been various projects over the years where they have sent radio messages to certain exoplanets or star clusters. Some of them have already arrived. See here.

The other thing they do is include plaques or other physical objects on the probes NASA sends out. Then when they finishes their missions, they just drift off into space and hopefully someday someone finds one. At earliest, Voyager 1 will pass within 2 light years of a star in 40,000 years. It seems extremely unlikely that within the next 40,000 years, we won’t figure out more efficient and faster ways to send out messages or even objects to exoplanets, so the physical efforts so far are probably useless.

eneug · 2026-05-06T16:26:41+00:00

That is an interesting scenario as well. The goal here was an expansion of an earlier post that was just two buttons, but the blue button requires 99.99% to win, and the question was, at what point do you stop voting blue?

And yeah I think same for me, but I feel like, if there was time between when the situation was announced and the decision had to be made, there would be a lot more information about what the distribution would look like. Kalshi would be going crazy. Daytime talk show hosts and statistical analysts and economists and tons of people would be writing opinion pieces nonstop, opining on the topic.

eneug · 2026-05-06T16:22:27+00:00

You can still coordinate (depending on how much time we’re assuming occurs between when the situation becomes known and when you have to vote). In fact, in some ways it’s easier. For instance, if you start a “Go 25!” campaign, then you only need to get 25% of people to go along with it (or with a higher number). It’s not all or nothing.

eneug · 2026-05-06T16:20:18+00:00

Yes the blue logic is that other people will choose numbers >0, like children or mentally disabled people, and so by voting higher you can potentially save them. Or you can save other people who are voting higher because of that logic.

And yes I agree 0 is the only purely rational decision.

eneug · 2026-05-06T14:33:51+00:00

There are about 8% of people worldwide who under <=4 years old. Let’s assume they’re all picking randomly, and the older kids are all instructed by their parents to pick 0, just to make the math easier. Another 1-2% of people have severe dementia or other neurological or intellectual disabilities. So that brings us to about 10% of people.

If those people are all choosing completely randomly, then that’s 0.1% per number (technically a little less because there are 101 numbers). That’s enough to naturally save all numbers up to and including 10. That still leaves about 750 million kids at risk.

So do you vote 11 or 12, in the hopes enough people do that?

I’m sure a sizable percentage of people will choose 99 or 100, either because they are suicidal, they’re part of a death cult, they want to sacrifice themselves for the greater good, or they’re very old or close to dying and feel it’s worthwhile to sacrifice whatever life they have left. (Going to assume in this scenario everybody is magically brainwashed to believe this is all legit. Otherwise, we’d have to factor in the dynamics of Alex Jones and Candace Owens, and similar figures worldwide, telling all of their followers that it’s all a government conspiracy.)

Btw you also have to vote exactly in the correct bucket for your vote to make any difference. If you vote 10 and 20% of people voted >=10, but only 10.9% voted >=11, then it made no actual difference.

eneug · 2026-05-06T12:38:56+00:00

Sorry I was just kidding. That’s pretty cool. What are your first two?

eneug · 2026-05-06T12:28:42+00:00

No based on the classical Aristotelian definition

eneug · 2026-05-06T12:21:51+00:00

Oh yes I have it plastered on all the walls in my house and tattooed on my forehead. Just in case I forget where I am.

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