Re: [EM] language/framing quibble

2008-09-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Fred Gohlke wrote: Good Afternoon, Kristofer re: This sounds a lot like what I've previously referred to as 'council democracy'. I hadn't heard that term before or seen the proposal. I wonder if the concepts can be merged, perhaps by an analytical critique of the processes. I first

Re: [EM] sortition/random legislature Was: Re: language/framing quibble

2008-09-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Raph Frank wrote: Sorry, pressed reply instead of reply to all On 9/11/08, Aaron Armitage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't follow from the fact we choose representatives for ourselves that we would lose nothing by being stripped of the means of political action. We would lose our

Re: [EM] A computationally feasible method (algorithmic redistricting)

2008-09-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Juho wrote: The traditional algorithm complexity research covers usually only finding perfect/optimal result. I'm particularly interested in how the value of the result increases as a function of time. It is possible that even if it would take 100 years to guarantee that one has found the best

Re: [EM] the 'who' and the 'what'

2008-09-14 Thread Kristofer Munsterhjelm
Michael Allan wrote: Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote: If you take the parallel system strategy to its extreme, you'd get a parallel organization where (as an example), a group elects a double mayor and support him over the real mayor, essentially building a state inside the state. I don't think

Re: [EM] sortition/random legislature Was: Re: language/framing quibble

2008-09-14 Thread Raph Frank
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A random assembly also resists the attack where one corrupts candidates, simply because it's not clear who the candidates are going to be. There is also the effect that a person who wants to be a candidate may need

Re: [EM] Delegable proxy/cascade and killer apps

2008-09-14 Thread Raph Frank
This is another for film ratings. It gives each moving a score and is resistant to random raters. http://www.mathaware.org/mam/08/reputation.pdf Meant 'movie a score' Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info