I’m not sure either of those are great analogies. I would say both are not for different reasons.
Democracy only works properly if most people vote. Everyone who votes plays a role in maintaining the system and the norm of all people having real political power, even if their individual vote didn’t change the result. I don’t buy the argument which thinks just about Democracy through the effect of the marginal vote.
As a cancer researcher your have a decent chance of making an actual breakthrough, especially if working at a leading company or institution. Every year there are multiple meaningful breakthroughs which actually reduce cancer DALY burden. It’s hardly like AI safety where is both harder to make a difference and harder to know if you have...
Individual votes change the vote totals, which has a marginal effect on strategic policy considerations. So a tiny proportional effect on a tremendously large outcome.
I’m not sure either of those are great analogies. I would say both are not for different reasons.
Democracy only works properly if most people vote. Everyone who votes plays a role in maintaining the system and the norm of all people having real political power, even if their individual vote didn’t change the result. I don’t buy the argument which thinks just about Democracy through the effect of the marginal vote.
As a cancer researcher your have a decent chance of making an actual breakthrough, especially if working at a leading company or institution. Every year there are multiple meaningful breakthroughs which actually reduce cancer DALY burden. It’s hardly like AI safety where is both harder to make a difference and harder to know if you have...
Individual votes change the vote totals, which has a marginal effect on strategic policy considerations. So a tiny proportional effect on a tremendously large outcome.