Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2)

[colinfred]

As hashed out in this thread, button 2 is the only rational choice, button 1 is unforced suicide.

Red button or blue button dilemma

A content creator I listen to a lot popped up in my feed yesterday confused by the repeated outcome of a particular experiment. “The situation is this: You are presented with two buttons, one red, the other blue. Everyone in the country is expected to push a button. If a majority select the blue button, everybody lives. If a majority push the red button, they live, but anyone who pushed the blue button dies.” He thought it was a no-brainer, blue right? But apparently several polls show a bias t…