Cool cake demonstration. I think I would vote for pushing the button. Eating cake is fun, but destroying cake is also fun while being much healthier. I suppose if we’re doing the whole democracy thing, we could even let the no voters eat some before we destroy it.
If someone had pressed the button, I would simply have opened the box and slid the cake into the bin, as pretty much the least-fun way I could think of to destroy it. Some people suggested cool ways of destroying it but I didn’t want anyone going away from it thinking “well, we didn’t get cake, but that was pretty metal”. I said this during questions after the talk, so hopefully people also wouldn’t expect to be going away from it thinking that.
Until I locked up the button, we weren’t doing the democracy thing. If someone had pressed it then no one would have eaten cake. But if people had collectively decided to not-press the button, let some people eat cake, and then destroy the remainder, I wouldn’t have tried to stop that.
Cool cake demonstration. I think I would vote for pushing the button. Eating cake is fun, but destroying cake is also fun while being much healthier. I suppose if we’re doing the whole democracy thing, we could even let the no voters eat some before we destroy it.
If someone had pressed the button, I would simply have opened the box and slid the cake into the bin, as pretty much the least-fun way I could think of to destroy it. Some people suggested cool ways of destroying it but I didn’t want anyone going away from it thinking “well, we didn’t get cake, but that was pretty metal”. I said this during questions after the talk, so hopefully people also wouldn’t expect to be going away from it thinking that.
Until I locked up the button, we weren’t doing the democracy thing. If someone had pressed it then no one would have eaten cake. But if people had collectively decided to not-press the button, let some people eat cake, and then destroy the remainder, I wouldn’t have tried to stop that.