SilasBarta comments on A Mathematical Explanation of Why Charity Donations Shouldn't Be Diversified - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 20 September 2012 06:22:47PM 0 points [-]

But there is no analog to splitting up your vote, and to the extent that there can be (say, when you get multiple votes in an election to fill multiple co-equal seats on a council, and you can apply more than one of your votes to the same candidate), and several candidates have similar merit, the same arguments for charity splitting apply.

Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2012 07:11:30PM 3 points [-]

But there is no analog to splitting up your vote

Sure (to the extent that we are considering the effects of “what if everyone used the algorithm I'm using”): you vote for the Greens with probability p and for the Blues with probability 1 - p.