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The more I think about it, I'm not even comfortable calling this collusion. Vote-buying is bad (some people disagree!) because we don't want people selling the
by samatman 5y ago
The more I think about it, I'm not even comfortable calling this collusion. Vote-buying is bad (some people disagree!) because we don't want people selling the decision, we want them to make it themselves.
But a conversation like "I was thinking four points on A but I see why you're all in on B now, tell you what how about we go two for two on it" strikes me as a good outcome in a voting system. The fact that linear voting doesn't have an equivalent of it doesn't imply we should consider this 'collusion' rather than 'cooperation'.
- notahacker 5y agoIf the theoretical [economic] rationale for quadratic voting is that it incentivises voters to apportion votes perfectly in accordance with the relative intensity of their preferences, the fact they can achieve better outcomes by colluding/cooperating to vote not in accordance with the intensity of their preferences is a pretty major weakness.