centipedes dilemma it's the idea that actively thinking about a normally unconscious or automatic activity impairs its performance its name comes from this cool poem where a centipede starts consciously thinking of which leg to move and doesn't know how to walk anymore also think about breathing you're now manually breathing volunteers dilemma let's say there's someone who's being assaulted in public by a serial killer and there are dozens of people witnessing it all of them think that the others would contact the police anyway and don't want to risk getting involved with the serial killer so nobody ends up calling the police it's exactly what happened to Kitty geneves in New York in 1964 this dilemma may also be called the bystander effect or the genovesa syndrome transplant dilemma if the demand for organs for transplants exceeds the supply who should have priority in getting them the youngest patients the sickest ones the healthier ones or the ones who've been on the waiting list for longer Morton's Fork this one is a false dilemma in which contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion it takes its name from John Morton who in the 15th century attempted to rationalize paying taxes to King Henry by saying that someone living modestly must be saving money and therefore could afford the tax whereas someone living extravagantly was obviously rich and therefore could also afford the tax dictators dilemma a dictator who relies on repression of the public in order to stay in power can't understand what people really think as they fake their preferences and votes to avoid punishment from him autonomous vehicle dilemma should a self-driving car protect the driver or the pedestrians strategic voting dilemma some voters face a choice voting for their preferred candidate who may have little chance of winning or voting strategically for a less preferred candidate who has a better chance of winning if too many voters choose to vote for their ideal candidate they may inadvertently help a less desirable candidate win by splitting the vote but if everyone votes strategically the preferred candidate never gains traction and the election results May not reflect the true preferences of the elector Becken fer a dilemma it's the theory that liberal non-religious states require values such as civic responsibility and honesty but cannot guarantee their existence through legislation or Force since in that case it wouldn't be a liberal State anymore this puts the liberal state in an unstable position where the only guarantee it has is the internal moral sense of people Samaritans dilemma it's a concept in economics that describes a situation where helping someone in need can create a dependency or reduce their motivation to improve their situation as they can rely on said help the Dilemma stems from the fact that the Samaritan might be giving help to the recipient to give him a chance to better his condition while the opposite might happen social dilemma it's a situation in which all individuals would be better off cooperating but fail to do so because of conflicting interests between individuals that discourage joint action real life examples can be found in environmental problems such as climate change and in political issues like the non-voting issues Hedgehog's dilemma this one refers to a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to stay warm during cold weather but they must remain apart as they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp spines it was created by schopenhauer to explain Human Relationships since we cannot be intimate without the risk of mutual harm leading to cautious relationships Hines dilemma in the Dilemma a man named Hines has a wife who is critically ill and needs a very expensive drug to survive Hines cannot afford the drug and the pharmacist who discovered the drug refuses to lower the price or allow hin to pay later the pharmacist is charging 10 times what it costs him to make the medicine faced with this situation Hines considers breaking into the pharmacy to steal the drug to save his wife's life the central question is whether stealing it would be ethical what's important is the form of the response to this dilemma since it could be attributed to one of the six stages of moral development shellings dilemma also known as the habian Trap this Theory explains why preemptive attacks are made between two groups or individual it happens when they both have fear of an imminent attack and it leads to a fear spiral in which fear will lead to an arms race which in turn will lead to increasing fear even though cooperation would be the better outcome for both sides Mutual distrust leads to the adoption of strategies that have negative outcomes for both individual players and all players combined it's one of the examples that show why humans don't always act with 100% rationale and it's pretty commonly used in Game Theory innocent prisoners dilemma this one one is a side effect of a legal system in which admission of guilt can result in reduced sentences this system might punish an innocent person for their integrity and reward a person lacking in Integrity as he admits guilt to avoid a longer sentence Munch Housen trilemma this one is a philosophical concept that wants to demonstrate the theoretical impossibility of proving any truth even in the fields of logic and Mathematics without appealing to pre-acceptance to support it however the person can then ask for proof of that evidence and so on making him able to keep asking for proof of each new piece of evidence endlessly it says that there are only three ways of completing a proof the circular argument in which the proof of some proposition presupposes the truth of that very proposition the regressive argument in which each proof requires a further proof and so on infinitely and the dogmatic argument which rests on accepted precepts which are merely asserted rather than defended prisoners dilemma it's the most famous game theory thought experiment and it involves two rational agents each of whom can cooperate for Mutual benefit or betray their partner for individual reward let's set up a hypothetical scenario two gang members called Jon blue and JN red are arrested and imprisoned each prisoner is in solitary confinement with no means of speaking to the other and the police admit they don't have enough evidence to convict them if both of them don't talk they get one year of prison each for a less serious charge but the police officer offers each prisoner a choice if he testifies against his partner he will go free while the partner will get 3 years in prison on the main charge but if both prisoners testify against each other both will be sentenced to 2 years in jail the best overall option for the group would be for both of them to stay silent as it amounts to only 2 years in prison but the best option for each singular person would be to betray their partner let's take a look at johon Blue's perspective if he thinks that red will stay silent it's more convenient for him to betray him since he'd get freed and if he thinks that red will betray it would also be more conven vent for him to betray as he'd get 2 years instead of three triffin dilemma it's the economic problem that a national currency faces when it becomes a World's Reserve currency like the US dollar The Dilemma arises because the country issuing the reserve currency must Supply the world with enough currency to meet International demand for liquidity which means running trade deficits however running persistent trade deficits can erode confidence in the currency's value leading to a potential financial crisis on the other hand if the country tries to eliminate trade deficits to maintain the currency's value it will create a shortage of liquidity in the global economy harming international trade and economic stability this creates a fundamental conflict between short-term economic goals and long-term global stability trolley problem it's an ethical dilemma and it consists of a scenario in which a runaway tram or trolley is on course to collide with and kill five people down the track but you being a driver or bystander can intervene and divert the vehicle to kill just one person on a different track it basically poses the question is sacrificing one person to save a larger number the right thing to do warock dilemma this one says that there's no sure way to understand why nobody replies to your community posts and forums Etc it might mean that the topic was uninteresting that it was written so badly that they didn't even bother answering or that it was so well written that there wasn't anything to add in the comments Monty Hall dilemma imagine you're on a game show with three doors behind one door is a car the prize and behind the other two doors are goats you pick one door let's say door one the host Monty Hall who knows what is behind each door then opens another door let's say door three which has a goat Monty then asks if you want to switch your choice to door two or stay with door one The Dilemma is whether to switch or stay the counterintuitive but mathematically proven solution is that you should always switch initially you have a 13 chance of picking the car and a 2/3 chance of picking a goat when Monty reveals a goat behind one of the other two doors the 2/3 probability effectively transfers to the remaining unopened door by switching you now have a 2/3 chance of winning the car compared to a one-third chance if you stick with your original choice tragedy of the commons the tragedy of the commons is a criticized concept that states that if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite valuable resource such as a pasture they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether if you want to discuss this video or suggest an idea for the next one join my Discord Link in the description