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Wrong.
How's that related?
In short, your decision not to vote after rational deliberation means it is approximately correct for other voters to think in the same way. This works like a classical cooperation game. TDT prescribes to commit to a small personal cost for a big community gain, in a similar way as one-boxing in Newcomb.
I don't have the same algorithm as others, and if I did, it would be good enough to choose one of us at random to be responsible. Taking votes from everyone would be highly inefficient.
No. First, in case of humans this works by approximation, not exact copy. Second, you don't know what is the group of people who think in a similar way as you (clearly not all voters).
You need an argument for your claim about approximation, especially considering the fact that I am a remote outlier. And I agree that not all voters think like me. That is exactly my point.
Just take some time to consider how TDT applies to decision in real life. You will get it, I'm sure.
The way it applies in real life, is that all the people like me will choose not to vote, and to work together for a better, less inefficient system, which will give us much more utility than if we had all chosen to vote.
It seems to me that not voting and working for a better system are basically independent activities.
Not entirely. It would take me at least 30 minutes to vote, and probably more, given the need to register. Together with the other people like me (and I am admitting there aren't very many, since I only include those who have a similar algorithm, not all those that happen to get the same outcome), that adds up to a good deal of time that could be spent on working for a better system, while there would still be no change in the outcome from voting, even if the group of us voted as a unit.