When I said that I vote in the best way for myself if I vote to maximize my expectation for my actual sincere rating of the winner--I meant that, over the long haul, when looking back on a long period of election results, I'll feel that I've done the best possible for my own interest if I've voted to maximize sincere ratings (ratings of how good the candidates would be for me), and I'll be glad that I didn't let skittishness at the time of voting influence me, by using vN-M utilities. Also, if I feel that what I really want, at the time of voting, is to maximize my expectation for my actual sincere rating of the winner, then that means that my sincere ratings _are_ my vN-M utilities. Mike Ossipoff ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
