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    Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Feb 2020

    The *worst thing* about democracy is this thing people do where they vote based on peer pressure anticipating how everyone else will vote The irrational feedback loop this causes is responsible for at least 50% of the disastrous decisions made by voting

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      2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Feb 2020

        People talk about the paradox where democratic systems often produce outcomes that clearly aren't what a majority of people actually want and there's the big reason right there

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      3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Feb 2020

        That high school thing where there's a "popular kid" who's a bully nobody actually likes but everyone has to pretend they like out of fear of everyone else How to explain to kids that in adult life this doesn't actually get better

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      4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 11 Feb 2020

        I don't want to overuse jargon like "metastability" and "path dependency" but when you realize that in most elections a huge chunk of the supporters of the winner supported them because they were winning and would've supported the loser if they'd been winning is infuriating

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      1. Jim Lawrence‏ @JimLawrence85 11 Feb 2020
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        Yep. The whole system is so incredibly buggered.

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      1. Provider Ugtweets, Mammoth Hunter‏ @otorhinosaur 11 Feb 2020
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        At least that feedforward loop does not appear to be resulting in a catastrophic Biden nomination

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      2. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 11 Feb 2020
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        Part of the problem is that in multi-candidate elections with first-past-the-post voting and spoiler effects, to some degree this is rational. You don't want to elect the worst candidate by not settling for second best. BUT people do it even in elections that aren't FPTP.

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      3. Matt McIrvin‏ @mattmcirvin 11 Feb 2020
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        And there are weird phenomena like huge media focus on who "won" a close primary election in which delegate allocation is proportional, so it doesn't really matter who is in first.

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      2. Provider Ugtweets, Mammoth Hunter‏ @otorhinosaur 11 Feb 2020
        Replying to @arthur_affect

        Interestingly, we appear to be okay using an identical process as a tentpole to prop up major portions of our economy, i.e. the stock market

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      3. Jayna‏ @Tuplet 11 Feb 2020
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        I think people gain little a rationality when money is involved. Maybe

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      1. a wrinkle in snpoon‏ @wrinklespoon 11 Feb 2020
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        Is it more "my candidate won't win so better go for the more likely second choice" or "I want to vote for the one who is the winner". I simply can't fathom the second one.

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