Is it really worthwhile to vote? Almost certainly yes. Fascinating analysis by @robertwiblin for @80000Hours
https://80000hours.org/2016/11/why-the-hour-you-spend-voting-is-the-most-socially-impactful-of-all/ …
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Side 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/ …
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Stackelberg reasoning is weird af. But I'm convinced it works, despite being strictly illogical. Like so many things.
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If the election is decided by a margin of one vote, did everyone's vote each break the tie??
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I was thinking that an alternative explanation for voting is Churchillian “duty”, that’s non-computable, existing “beyond space and time”. But after perusing link, maybe as is philosophy to adversity, “duty” is Stackelberg Reasoning’s sweet milk.pic.twitter.com/UL8eYOpvaP
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