Eugine_Nier comments on A Rational Argument - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2007 06:35PM

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Comment author: Estarlio 04 September 2013 11:03:04PM 0 points [-]

Why? Assuming I vote randomly all I'm doing is increasing the noise to signal ratio. If everyone you force to do it votes randomly then it'll average out.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 06 September 2013 04:59:59AM -1 points [-]

It's worse than that. The randomness is biased in ways that can be systematically manipulated.