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Voting is like donating hundreds of thousands to charity — LessWrong

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Voting is like donating hundreds of thousands to charity

by Gleb_Tsipursky

2nd Nov 2016

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This is a linkpost for http://time.com/4554073/value-of-vote/

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Isn't this a ripoff of Slate Star Codex take on voting?

Jayson_Virissimo10y00

Trying to calculate the expected value of voting goes back at least to public choice economists in the 1960s.

9ChristianKl10y

I don't think it makes sense to call writing an article about a topic when another person wrote an article about the same subject a ripoff.

0Manfred10y

Which was in turn a ripoff of early attempts to calculate E.V. of voting.