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TheOtherDave comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 October 2012 03:52:51PM 1 point [-]

Mostly, I think that any tool of this sort that somehow becomes sufficiently popular and effective to actually make a measurable difference to US presidential election results, relative to the effects of advertising and blogs and newspaper articles and so forth, will be co-opted by a raft of deliberately biased competitors long before that point.

That said, I do think something similar would be useful for local elections. Of course, it would be a lot more work to develop and maintain at that level. Those two facts are not unrelated.