An avid Twitter user dies and goes to heaven
Posted by OpenAsteroidImapct@reddit | Jokes | View on Reddit | 18 comments
Upon arrival, God offers to answer any question they have. The Tweeter asks, "Just one. What's the correct answer to the button question?"
God responds: "The blue button"
The Twitter user pauses, nods, and says, "Wow. The virtue signaling goes even higher than I thought".
Antigone2023@reddit
Can someone provide some context for those who never used Twitter? 😅
damoklis@reddit
It's a philosophical dilemma going around. Each person on earth has 2 buttons, blue and red, in front of them. If more than 50% press the blue button, everyone survives. If least than 50% press the blue button, only those that pressed the red button survive.
LordCouchCat@reddit
As a dilemma, it depends mainly on your framework. If you are following game theory, then the optimal strategy is to press the red button. (You survive in either outcome if you press red, but if you press blue you may or may not survive.) However, if you are answering on the basis of morality, then most systems of morality indicate you should press blue. It's equivalent to should you take a risk to save someone, or sit back and let them die if there is any risk to you.
It's got some resemblance to the famous "Prisoners Dilemma" game. In both cases the fact that the game is one-off alters the situation. If games like the Prisoners Dilmma are iterated ie played repeatedly, then it becomes rational to co-operate. This has been demonstrated with programs of different strategies playing against each other. The most successful (when I read about it) was "Tit for Tat": the program assumes co-operation. If an opponent defects, the program defects once in retaliation but then reverts to co-operation.
Banslair@reddit
So what happens if more than 50 percent press the blue button?
SpaceBug176@reddit
I think this is about that thought experiment where if 50% of the world votes blue, everyone lives, but if its not 50%, only the ones that pressed red live. The Twitter user is saying that God just wants to show off how good he is, as that's what virtue signaling means.
chasealex2@reddit
So everyone should press red, and everyone lives. Blue is a suicide button.
Forsaken_Ad8252@reddit
An active social media user walks down a dark alley in a crime-ridden neighborhood. He holds his bruised face and cries, "Damn, it hurts to leave comments in real life!"
Mad_Maddin@reddit
Tbf it is imo just stupid asshole behaviour to press the blue button if you don't want to die.
You are forcing others who voluntarily want to die to live. Because you feel yourself above them or something.
The red button supports choice and free will. The blue does not.
I would always press red, because I think both types of people who'd press blue are better off gone.
Boot_Effective@reddit
That makes no sense. If you press the red you're ensuring your personal survival, not voluntarily trying to die. This actually makes you the selfish asshole.
Mad_Maddin@reddit
Anyone can press the red button. If you press the blue button, you either want to die or you want to prevent people who want to die from doing so.
SnooPets752@reddit
There are a million other ways to die
SnooPets752@reddit
Those who press the red button are sent off to their own place, and so to them all the blue-button people are dead. That place is called hell. God tells them, "Ok. Thy will be done."Â
Blue button people inherit the earth.Â
Everyone gets what they want. Â
DaddyHoneyBee@reddit
If you press the blue button you assume that there are fewer people like you in the world than those who want to see humanity thrive.
Antigone2023@reddit
Wow. Sounds like you could use a hug, and a therapy session. 🫂
MemerTotalus@reddit
Found the snob
SnooPets752@reddit
Eh, the "... goes higher than I thought," only makes for conspiracies
OverallManagement824@reddit
Yeah. Redditors don't believe in conspiracy theories. /s
islandwatchr@reddit
This is not funny.