[EM] election-methods@electorama.com

2006-05-15 Thread Antonio Oneala
"Simmons, Forest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul K. is going to think that I have too much time on my hands, since this posting is strictly for theoretical purposes, namely to try to imagine how close we might get to the "Small Voting Machine," the SMV that was posited by Alex Small two or three

Re: [EM] using welfare functions in election methods

2006-05-15 Thread bql
Ooo, I like it. Now I want to re-run all my old simulations that just measured average happiness. Though, the tricky thing I've always run into when trying to formulate a better social utility measure is that when trying to make sure no one is left too far behind, do we unfairly reward people

Re: [EM] using welfare functions in election methods

2006-05-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 09:38 PM 5/15/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Though, the tricky thing I've always run into when trying to formulate a better social utility measure is that when trying to make sure no one is left too far behind, do we unfairly reward people who complain too much? And if we don't, then we leave