Wei_Dai comments on Politics as Charity - Less Wrong

29 Post author: CarlShulman 23 September 2010 05:33AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 September 2010 05:56:55AM *  6 points [-]

She estimates that she has a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of casting the deciding vote

Why is this not a confusion? It seems on the face of it that since voters' decisions are correlated, your decision accounts for behavior of other people as well, and so you are not only casting one vote with your decision, but many votes simultaneously.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 23 September 2010 06:32:44AM 3 points [-]

How does one go about computing E(total number of votes | I vote) - E(total number of votes | I don't vote)?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 23 September 2010 06:39:37AM 4 points [-]

No idea, but "deciding vote" is not it.