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> It seems we've argued over different things. That happens with annoying regularity. I have a system for dealing with that too, but that's a different blog po
by DRMacIver 15y ago
> It seems we've argued over different things.
That happens with annoying regularity. I have a system for dealing with that too, but that's a different blog post. ;-)
> I picked up the "perfect" from the headline and came up with a counter-example.
Well there's a reason "perfect" is in scare quotes. If I really thought the system were perfect I'd actually be advocating it instead of going "Hey guys, here's a neat idea. I'm not really sure if I'm actually for it or not".
The meaning of perfect here was intended to be that it has a lot of the properties which many people claim are impossible to coexist and summarise under the heading "there is no perfect voting system" (it overcomes the impossibilities by being non-deterministic), whilst remaining very similar to the existing and familiar system