To Imane, pt 89

"You are playing the red and blue buttons game and feeling safe because most people picked blue, like you. Then you find out the effects of the buttons are reversed, and all the red pickers will die unless a bunch of blue pickers switch to red. Do you try to get blue pickers to switch to red?"

This works with a quote of the original polls for context and to explain the situation.

Up till now, I could not say that a single identifiable person, other than me, has indicated that they think this idea would fix problems. I added "identifiable" because there was the person on the Occupy Wall St forums whose comment led to the post, Feedback. (Note that, reading this comment, they were saying that I had poll data showing that other solutions X,Y,Z ­— like "increase taxes for more government jobs" — had problems, and no polls showing support for this idea.) That is, if I had wanted to prove that Sherine thought it would fix problems, I could not have done so.

So, if people imagine that they are playing a game like the red and blue buttons, the suggested poll makes sense and is relevant. Is it safe for someone to switch from "ignoring this idea" to "supporting this idea", or dangerous?

After I woke up half an hour ago, I did this web searches, which I recorded for some reason, allowing me to paste them now:

"when your youngest sister breaks your computer's screen at school in your favorite classroom just after leaving a worse place, but it actually it was a dream so you can still do stuff with this idea"

"when your computer's screen breaks but your main concern is not about this idea, but about how you can't do the testing that you planned with using a lvl 1 character on the PTR to enter battlegrounds"

"remember when my mum almost killed my dad with a vacuum cleaner, the way a character tried to do in The Ogre Downstairs"

One might conjecture that the last one suggests a gender bias in society; if my dad had almost killed my mum, would my mum have acted years later like it was ok to possibly get back together, and would other people have acted like that would have been fine? But when I said that I could not prove that a single person thinks this idea would fix problems, that applies to everyone, regardless of their gender.