When the Trisolarians invade; when you know humanity is done for; when you’re the Swordholder with the button that destroys their homeworld and yours.
Do you press it?
When everybody gets offered a red and blue button. Red guarantees your own survival. Blue lets you wager your life for a chance at everybody’s, children and idiots and strangers insane…
Do you press it?
At the end of the 3 Body Problem series, Cheng Xin gives up her pocket universe in hope to remake the cosmos a happier, friendly, warmer place.
Would you let yours go?
Three choices.
Dominant game-theoretic strategy, or some idiotic wager on a hope?
Live in a cold dark forest where defection crowds out love? Die for a concept of a vision of a hope of being somewhere else?
Read more about my choice here.