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fortyeridania comments on Please don't vote because democracy is a local optimum - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fortyeridania 06 November 2012 12:00:54PM 1 point [-]

I think the last reason is illegitimate, because it is symmetrical with the existential risk case. Just as voting justifies following politics, so does trying to decrease existential risk justify soaking up X-risk information. Therefore, someone who accepts it as a reason to vote should accept it as a reason to try to mitigate X-risks.