[EM] MMPO, Majority, Condorcet failures

2004-12-20 Thread Chris Benham
Kevin, To me the price MMPO (MinMax Pairwise Opposition) pays for strategy benefits you describe is just far too high, failing as it does (Mutual) Majority and Clone-Winner. (Also very unattractive to me is that it combines meeting Later-no-harm with failing Later-no-help, and thus having a

Re: [EM] Defection, nomination disincentive, MMPO

2004-12-20 Thread Gervase Lam
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 04:49:45 +0100 (CET) From: Kevin Venzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EM] Defection, nomination disincentive, MMPO Also, every example I've seen of MMPO's Majority failure involves the use of four slots. It's always this scenario: 20 ABCD 20 BCAD 20 CABD 13 DABC

[EM] Re: MMPO, Majority, Condorcet failures

2004-12-20 Thread Gervase Lam
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:56:17 +0100 (CET) From: Kevin Venzke Subject: [EM] MMPO, Majority, Condorcet failures 29 B 19 AB 9 AC 43 C CW is C, but the MMPO winner is A. This scenario is particularly interesting because A is either a weak centrist candidate, or else someone taking

Re: [EM] MMPO replies

2004-12-20 Thread Kevin Venzke
Chris first, then Gervase. Chris, --- Chris Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : A method that seems to perform as well in all your 3-candidate scenarios with lots of lazy truncating voters, is Raynaud(Gross) with the tiebreaker suggested by Gervase Lam. (It could also be called