The right to vote is important. Exercising that right is usually bad. When voter participation is low, that's an important sign that things are well-run. Fight me.
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(This set of assertions is separate from my personal belief that voting is immoral.)
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strix aluco Retweeted Geoffrey Miller
curious what y'all make of this argument in favor of voting:https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1059304918207451136 …
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Geoffrey MillerVerified account @primalpolySide note: the reason I vote is based on a pretty obscure game-theoretic idea called Stackelberg Reasoning, but it would take too long to explain why it's relevant. For the handful of you who might be interested, here's a paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3961161/ …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I think I already read some iintellectual's longass crappy justification of voting when Douglas Hofstdater did it in the 80s and when Scott Alexander did it a couple of years ago, and it's somebody else's turn to wade through this.
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That said, this study seems to be about games where outcomes are known to all players and the problem is coordinating rational players optimally. In voting outcomes are virtually unknowable and players have virtually zero incentive to act rationally wrt outcomes.
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