Peter de Blanc wrote:
The more general criterion which Hay Voting satisfies is this: we
want a voting method such that, given a probability distribution for how
the other voters will vote, the mapping from utility functions to
optimal voting strategies is injective. In the original
At 02:17 PM 2/5/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue of how to sum utility over an entire society is also
raised. How do you relate
one point of utility between two people.
You equate the extremes. It's a basic assumption of democracy. One
person, one vote. The assumption is that all
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 14:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue of how to sum utility over an entire society is also raised. How
do you relate
one point of utility between two people.
I think it's arbitrary. Utility functions are an abstraction for
describing agents; if two agents
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 00:22 -0500, Warren Smith wrote:
Inspired by Forest's post of praise, I took a look at Hay Voting.
I believe it is bogus. There are two problems. First of all, they
just did the math wrong to get a bogus formula.
But you can fix their errors and get a different
