[EM] Re: Approval Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Forest Simmons
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Forest, you wrote: Sorry, I was thinking in terms of equilibria that are stable under Rob's ballot-by-ballot DSV procedure. And: In Rob's algorithm, once A is in the lead, the ABC voters stop approving B. But why should they do so when A wins already? They

[EM] Re: Approval Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Forest, you wrote: > Sorry, I was thinking in terms of equilibria that are stable under Rob's > ballot-by-ballot DSV procedure. And: > In Rob's algorithm, once A is in the lead, the ABC voters stop approving > B. But why should they do so when A wins already? They have no incentive whatsoever t

[EM] Re: Approval Questions

2005-03-24 Thread Forest Simmons
Sorry, I was thinking in terms of equilibria that are stable under Rob's ballot-by-ballot DSV procedure. On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Jobst Heitzig wrote: Dear Forest! You answered to me: The point is that when all ways to fill in the ballot are admissible strategies, there is never as group strategy equ

[EM] Re: Approval Questions

2005-03-22 Thread Jobst Heitzig
Dear Forest! You answered to me: >> The point is that when all ways to fill in the ballot are admissible >> strategies, there is never as group strategy equilibrium unless a >> sincere CW exists. My question here was: Is there such an equilibrium >> with Approval Voting when only ballots with sinc