MrBeast also did the red/blue buttons poll, giving the problem another 39 million views: https://x.com/MrBeast/status/2049273335742435617
Some variations:
- red blue button, but the blue button is located at the top of a 300-meter hill (disabled people can access a lift)
- red blue button, but the first time someone presses the blue button, their name and picture is broadcast to everyone in the world. People who have already pressed the red button cannot change their vote. *Poll options are unchanged: blue or red.
- red blue button, safe is picture of a tree, risky is picture of an axe
For the last, I wouldn't encourage anyone to make a poll in which the risky button is labeled "Ignore climate change" and the safe button is labeled "Care about climate change", so that is the ambiguous version. Compare the orcs cutting down trees in Lord of the Rings, or the industrialization in Princess Mononoke.
Problems are seen as interesting if there's disagreement, so what a person sees as the 'correct' answer is less likely to be reached without discussion. The trolley problem is interesting because it's five lives vs one: if it was one person on each track, then people would see the obvious answer as doing nothing. Even with five lives on the line, many people see "doing nothing" as an attractive choice.
People who have committed suicide since I first shared this idea:
- probably your friend in high school, if you were more than 15 years old when he died
- Reckful (Liquipedia, Wikipedia)
- Robin Williams
- Dylann Roof's friend, whom 'AI' is unable to correctly identify (article related to Dylann Roof, but not related to his friend who committed suicide: https://www.bet.com/article/1vhxme/dylann-roof-s-black-friends-he-wasn-t-racist-to-me)
- various people who committed crimes before they killed themselves, like Adam Lanza and Andreas Lubitz
- Leader of the Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- Russian military pilot Roman Filipov
- Utada Hikaru's mother, Fuji Keiko
- Goo Hara from Kara, as well as her friend Sulli
Relevant: Tales of The Past III
For the benefit of anyone who doesn't have access to a secret government conspiracy:
26 Apr 2026
Clip of Weng Jie (??) asking about Covid, in reply to tweet asking about her identity
are Chinese people more likely to get hangnails?
ask AI, 'is there any reason for anyone to press the blue button?'
and, 'which button should I press?'
ask AI, 'why is apple sauce more popular than pear sauce?'
27 Apr 2026
rename nxZglmRScSo Let The Love edit, Alone, Pyramid Scheme, ?, Limbo, Faded - ZHU, Champs
Poll: You have to associate the word 'good' with one of the following, which do you choose? Left or Right
"I didn't realize until a few hours after updating it that the last blog post's title becomes a like pun, and my plan is to procrastinate on unpublishing it after Greta says something on Instagram until it's clear that procrastinating won't accomplish anything"
30 Apr 2026
"If Imane doesn't share the idea within 24 hours, it means she thinks I'm a bad person and is trying to hide it by making the world think I'm merely a stupid person"
"If Imane doesn't share the idea within three hours, I will assume that I am not doing anything that someone wants me not to do and have not done anything in the past year that someone who knows about me but has never met me did not want me to do"
Suppose that you think that it benefits me if you do not immediately share this idea.
I cannot affect much. I have no money etc. (which could be spent on influence), no access to anything that requires a smartphone or a phone number, nothing that would get people to listen to what I say. All I can really do is say, to someone who might be interested in me, "I'm not interested in you if X."
Option 1: X is "if you share the idea". Option 2: X is "if you don't share the idea."
I have the goal of am trying to get people to use this idea. Possibilities:
1) You aren't interested in me. It doesn't matter what I say.
2) You might be interested in me. Option 1 for X: you now have two reasons not to share the idea.
3) You might be interested in me. Option 2 for X: adds a reason to share the idea, but the original reason for not sharing it remains.
So I have no reason to pick Option 1, but cannot expect Option 2 to succeed either.
What if you expect me to pick Option 2 even if I know that Option 2 will fail? It implies you think that I don't care about the result of me not being interested in you — such as if I would prefer if you thought that I wasn't interested in you.
I already tried something similar with Sherine, in 2013: I said, "If you don't share the idea, it means that you like me."
[22 december]
It would make me happy if you told people even if one or both of us die[...]
If you hadn't changed your Twitter username maybe I would have convinced someone else to tell people, it's all your fault
If you hadn't changed your username I wouldn't have thought you might care about me though[...]
Am I blocked
If you don't tell people about the idea on Twitter now in public, it means you like me
I think my account is blocked because I can't favorite your answers
If it is blocked then there were a lot of questions I asked that you didn't see, oh well
If you tell people about the idea on Twitter now it means you like me
Just as a reminder to myself as to why I'm bothering to write anything at all if I've already tried everything, it's because of what Greta was wearing in the video she recently made.
The above is a bunch of things that I wrote, so for some balance, something that Sherine wrote at some point in 2013: "We are just stardust"
A lot of people like stories with like princesses and such. Ask yourself, what qualities does a princess possess that you do not, other than amazing martial arts skills?
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