Macaulay comments on Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Macaulay 08 October 2015 07:10:23AM 0 points [-]

If you're loss averse, the expected value could easily be negative: cost(voting for wrong candidate) > benefit((voting for right candidate).