novalis comments on Any existential risk angles to the US presidential election? - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 20 September 2012 09:44AM

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Comment author: radical_negative_one 21 September 2012 07:23:00PM *  2 points [-]

consider the effect on Thiel's income

In that case I suppose we should let Thiel tell us who to vote for.

Comment author: novalis 21 September 2012 08:32:09PM 0 points [-]

Well, that's only if we think the marginal effects of policy changes on SAIA donors' income would be greater than any other difference between the candidates in terms of effects on the world. I think this is pretty unlikely.