Re: [EM] Steve Eppley's Just-In-Time Withdrawal (JITW)

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Ossipoff
>> After an election, any candidate can withdraw from the election, and >> call for a new count of the ballots, with his name deleted from all >> the ballots. >> >> I liked JITW, because it saves FBC-failing methods from their FBC failure. >> . > > Maybe. You could end up with a "chicken" dilem

[EM] Jameson: MJ, optimal voting, Strong IIAC

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Jameson: > But the criterion's premise stipulates optimal voting. Voting to > maximize one's utility-expectation. That's extreme voting. Unproven assertion. One which I believe is based on sound logic but faulty assumptions, and is therefore false. [endquote] Sure, the matter of what way of vot

Re: [EM] The usable interpretation of Jameson's proposed Strong IIAC

2013-01-10 Thread Jameson Quinn
2013/1/10 Michael Ossipoff > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jameson Quinn > wrote: > > >> I suggest that you'll find that no non-probabilistic and > >> non-dictatorial method can meet Strong IIAC, as defined above. > > > I agree. However, they will break it with different probabilities, given >

Re: [EM] The usable interpretation of Jameson's proposed Strong IIAC

2013-01-10 Thread Michael Ossipoff
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: >> I suggest that you'll find that no non-probabilistic and >> non-dictatorial method can meet Strong IIAC, as defined above. > I agree. However, they will break it with different probabilities, given a > universe of scenarios. For a realistic

Re: [EM] Steve Eppley's Just-In-Time Withdrawal (JITW)

2013-01-10 Thread Raph Frank
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Michael Ossipoff wrote: > Here's Steve's proposed fix: > > After an election, any candidate can withdraw from the election, and > call for a new count of the ballots, with his name deleted from all > the ballots. > > I liked JITW, because it saves FBC-failing metho