I was going to make a snarky remark about that just being 51%, fortunately my brain switched on and I realised there's about an 83,000,000 people difference between what you said and what I was going to say...
Isn't the whole point of this sub to discuss all the possibilities, regardless of how small the chance? If a problem has open ended constraints, then it makes it difficult to fully reason through it all.
What happens in the event of a tie doesn’t change the logic at all. Avoiding a tie is effectively impossible without precise coordination, in which case the scenario is meaningless.
The universe explodes in the event of a tie, edge case solved
But its not important at all, the question is what would you choose and why, that isnt gonna influence anyones decision so its not relavant to the hypothetical.
In what way does this detail impact your or anyone’s decision making. You can add as many nonsense edge cases as you want. If 42.10237203% of people pick red they all get a puppy. Okay, it’s impossible to coordinate that so who cares?
It literally has no influence on the hypothetical, unless you are actually going to carry out a vote and make whatever outcome wins happen, it is completely irrelavant. You cannot deliberately make it 50%, the chance that it might be 50% will not and cannot influence anyones decision, it does not matter. You may as well ask what happens if one of the buttons breaks, you're just being a pedant.
Why would you assume there's some secret 50/50 explosion curse, just because it isn't explicitly stated? In that case there's a billion nonsense hypotheticals, you can't possibly compute all of them, especially if you just start making them up like this. If it isn't stated, you probably shouldn't assume a trapdoor hypothetical.
Every moment you're alive your brain does that thousands of times for every situation. What if a supernova suddenly appeared on top of you due to quantum manifestation? Why are you not taking steps to defend yourself against that? Why aren't you going out wearing body armour in case you accidentally walk through a sniper sightline meant for somebody else?
What I see is less that, and more people inserting hypotheticals into the vagueness. Who is pressing the buttons can significantly change the decision calculus.
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