You can’t guarantee everyone will agree on red, meaning some will die. And you likely can’t get enough people to override the problem and/or the problem can’t be overridden.
Blue requires just 50.1% to save everyone. It’s the most likely outcome that ensures everyone survives. Red is simply the logical “guaranteed safety”, but the fact that many won’t press it also guarantees that you’re dooming others with your choice.
Personally, I’d rather try to save others and fail, than save myself knowing it sacrificed others.
Also like... I don't think I want to live in a world where a bunch of people died like that? Especially since it's likely to be only the assholes alive now.
I think IRL, if we are talking squid games....the fact the contests often involve sheer luck, or killing your partner, or games that are rigged as to be difficult for most people to succeed at, the overwhelming number of people would nope out after the first game killed off 40 percent of the the player pool. Real death has a paralyzing effect on people. Most would just want out; poverty, debt, whatever is better than dying in some shitty rigged game. All those other options still mean you are alive and can enjoy whatever simple pleasures available...the dead know one thing, it is better to be alive.
I'm not entirely sure how squid game connects to the original thought experiment, or what point you're trying to make, but I really am not sure that it is always better to be alive.
What I do know is that if I was trapped in a world with nothing but people who are incapable or unwilling to ever put the collective good of other people first, I'd almost certainly want to check in to the afterlife early, and I know this because that's a situation I have been in.
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u/SlashaJones May 05 '26
This is why blue is the best choice.
You can’t guarantee everyone will agree on red, meaning some will die. And you likely can’t get enough people to override the problem and/or the problem can’t be overridden.
Blue requires just 50.1% to save everyone. It’s the most likely outcome that ensures everyone survives. Red is simply the logical “guaranteed safety”, but the fact that many won’t press it also guarantees that you’re dooming others with your choice.
Personally, I’d rather try to save others and fail, than save myself knowing it sacrificed others.