Re: [EM] C/D is persistent. Another Approval C/D mitigation. IRV and sincerity.

2012-02-28 Thread Kevin Venzke
Hi Mike, De : Jameson Quinn >À : MIKE OSSIPOFF >Cc : election-meth...@electorama.com >Envoyé le : Mardi 28 février 2012 15h29 >Objet : Re: [EM] C/D is persistent. Another Approval C/D mitigation. IRV and >sincerity. > > >(Though I'd still really appreciate it if you made quick electowiki pag

Re: [EM] C/D is persistent. Another Approval C/D mitigation. IRV and sincerity.

2012-02-28 Thread Jameson Quinn
First off, I heartily agree that the cooperation/defection problem (aka ABE, aka Chicken Dilemma) is probably the most broadly-applicable, hard-to-solve problem in voting theory. The reason is simple: if there's a majority condorcet winner, it's easy to make a system which has a unique-winner stron

[EM] C/D is persistent. Another Approval C/D mitigation. IRV and sincerity.

2012-02-28 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
C/D: It seems to me that the co-operation/defection (C/D) problem is more difficult to truly eliminate than I'd believed. Hugely reducible, but maybe not eliminatable. The methods that I've been suggesting, to get rid of the C/D problem--I'll refer to those as "defection-resistant" methods. T