Good Afternoon, Raph
re: However, under your system, they (minority views) do get
represented in the level 1 triads. What they lose is the
having high level representatives.
Ah. Now we're at the crux of the matter ...
Whether or not a minority view retains high level
Good Afternoon, Kristofer
re: The rationale (for protecting an opinion not held by the
majority of the electorate) is that it enables compromise.
I submit that the essence of the Practical Democracy concept is
compromise. Three people, exchanging views on a variety of public
issues and
Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
If computers are permitted, then to keep sock puppets away and formalize
trust networks, you might use a trust metric. When given direct trust (A
trusts B to this extent), they extrapolate indirect trust (A trusts C
because A trusts B and B trusts C). Some of the
I think I can finally document the theory. I've been in list
discussions for a year now. It's payed off in design ideas. Now I
have working code. But it's hard to sustain a discussion (and maybe
hard to put the code into practice) without a clear theory.
I hope it's on topic for this
