Nathan_O'Sullivan comments on Today's Inspirational Tale - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nathan_O'Sullivan 05 November 2008 05:23:13AM -1 points [-]

"I don't buy the idea that rational agents don't vote"

The probability that your vote matters can easily be modeled with a binomial distribution. In any of the large-scale elections you seem to be referencing, that probability will be vanishingly small.