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Flipping a coin if the vote is close seems to solve the voting dilemma... What am I missing?
by fuzzybear3965 6y ago
Flipping a coin if the vote is close seems to solve the voting dilemma... What am I missing?
- ffhhj 6y agoSo randomness produces free will?
- simonh 6y agoIt simply offloads the decision to a delegated authority, just one that happens to be random, so I'm afraid not.
- shakezula 6y agoThe original paper specifically addresses “noise” as not a sufficient solution to the problem. I’d call a coin toss “noise” in the context of this paper.
- ffhhj 6y agoCorrect! > Another often-suggested escape from Buridan’s Principle is noise—the introduction of randomness into the system. In theory, one can balance a ball on a knife edge; in practice, this is impossible because tiny random 2 vibrations will cause the ball to fall, despite our best efforts to balance it. Moreover, balancing the ball on a knife edge requires fixing very precisely both the position and the momentum of the ball, which is forbidden by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. A four-legged or human ass must also have random noise and be subject to the Uncertainty Principle, so it cannot be put into a situation where it will hang forever on a knife edge of indecision.
- waterhouse 6y agoHow do you determine whether the vote is close? Use a threshold like 66%? What if the vote is very close to 66%, and it's not entirely clear whether it's above or below? It's exactly the same problem as determining whether a candidate has gotten more than 50%, only shifted around.
- coldtea 6y agoThat deciding to flip a coin to decide means you are already out of the dilemma...