The Prisoner's Dilemma, but worse

[mooninthewater]

A hypothetical thought experiment.

Assume the whole world, including those outside the Grove, have been given a button. They can choose to press or not press the button. If a majority of the world (so more than 50%) presses the button, then everyone who didn't press the button dies. If a majority of the world refused to press the button, everyone lives.

Do you press the button?

Comments

[foreversembrace]

how many people are in the world?

[mooninthewater]

No clue! Haven't been able to leave to go look and ascertain information like that. I'll ask Hoshibi next time we have book club.

In the meantime, we'll say about 7 billion people, since that's about how many people my home world has~

[foreversembrace]

[Jesus CHRIST.]

so
7 billion is like a LOT a lot
right?

[mooninthewater]

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⮬ This is a thousand dots.
A million, is one thousand one thousands. So imagine is every one of these dots were a thousand dots. That would be a million.

A billion is one thousand millions.

[bluebasketballed]

hey was math invented to mentaly torture people

[charlastan]

YES

[foreversembrace]

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i think the real answer to this question is that we'd be fucked.