torekp comments on Probability and Politics - Less Wrong

17 Post author: CarlShulman 24 November 2010 05:02PM

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Comment author: torekp 26 November 2010 05:12:02PM 1 point [-]

The post compares taking roughly one hour to vote against using the hour to earn money and donating it to campaigns, on the basis of one vote versus an expected number of votes. But this ignores secondary effects of voting, such as communicating honestly or dishonestly with other voters, that may be more important than the vote itself.