a bad topic for your family gathering
During a family dinner today, we played a game, more like a question really. It went like this: Imagine you (and everyone else on Earth) have to pick either a red or a blue button. If more than half the people pick the blue button, everyone survives. If not, only those who picked the red button survive. I believe the people who brought up this game remembered it incorrectly. Clearly, the game was meant to present a tricky choice, but this version has an obvious dominant strategy - choosing the red button....