[extropy-chat] If the nonUS citizens voted in Nov 2 elections...

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Adrian Tymes wrote:
> --- Kevin Freels <megaquark at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If foreigners could vote, I would be broke, unhappy, and probably n
>> fear for my life every day. This makes the case that I should vote
>> counter to the opinion of the rest of the world. In that case, it 
>> means Bush.
> 
> Which is an example of why that logic is faulty - specifically,
> generalizing from the average result (no, the rest of the world does not
> have our best interests in mind, and their choices would reflect this)
> to specific cases.  There can be a US Presidential choice that is both
> better for the rest of the world *and* better for the US, for example 
> Kerry.

I understand Stalin once said that 2 + 2 = 4, which permanently discredits 
that notion.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence