ClayShentrup

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by ClayShentrup 9mo ago
yes. election by jury is the good parts of sortition without the bad parts. https://www.electionbyjury.org/ approval voting is great. i co-founded a major non-profit that got it adopted in fargo and st louis. for election b
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by ClayShentrup 9mo ago
election by jury is better. elections aren't the problem — uninformed voters are the problem. especially if the turnout is statistically demographically biased (older, whiter, wealthier, more conservative, etc.) https://www.
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by ClayShentrup 9mo ago
legend. no words.
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
there's no such thing as information.
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
yeah. https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
nope. you need approval voting. https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/
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The efficiency of truth: introducing the jot(clayshentrup.medium.com)
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
The Watt-hour is a "UI hack" that hides the conflict between base-10 math and base-60 time. It forces us to multiply a rate (Watts) by time to get energy, only to divide back by time to understand flow. I propose a unit shift to a
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
mutable pointers to immutable data is the ticket.
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
it's the classic Rich hickey talk. simple made easy.
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
have you ever worked with pivotal Labs? One of my biggest faults I guess is that I worked with femme and they have such an incredibly high bar for understanding, design patterns and cyclomatic complexity and solid and test driven developmen
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by ClayShentrup 10mo ago
oh man, as a veteran of cruise this hits hard. thinking back to all the astonishingly dumb code I tried to refactor to do the right thing, and just get no recognition for it. politics > proficiency
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by ClayShentrup 11mo ago
it's mathematically proven that all ranked methods can fail IIA. see arrow's theorem. > Isn't this due to defining "performance" in a way that is congruent with Approval (/ Score) 1. i did not define perform
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by ClayShentrup 11mo ago
i had a chance to visit arrow at his palo alto condo circa 2014. his theorem is nice and all, but it only makes sense to apply it to social welfare functions, not voting methods. yes, the correct social welfare function is just the utilitar
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by ClayShentrup 11mo ago
> it seems like Approval voting just moves the spoiler effect into how people vote that's orthogonal. ranked voting methods already have (arguably more severe) response to strategic voting AND ALSO can fail IIA even with no strategy
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
of course they are. market forces are what you want for everything. granted, you may want to internalize a negative externality like the climate change induced by greenhouse gas emissions, but that's literally correcting market forces.
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
approval voting helps but IRV is actually fairly pro-extremist. https://www.rangevoting.org/IrvExtreme
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
consciousness has to be fundamental.
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
sortition is a more general concept.
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
www.ElectionByJury.org
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
this is a fallacy my team has been talking about for 20 years. https://www.rangevoting.org/IRVsplitExec.html tl;dr IRV is extremely poor, doesn't actually solve the vote splitting problem, and is radically more complex
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
no it's not a good point, it's the complete opposite of reality. http://scorevoting.net/StratHonMix
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
it's utterly the opposite of that. http://scorevoting.net/StratHonMix
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
> an intermediate score is not an optimal way to hedge 1. of course it is, if you're not mathematically savvy. https://www.rangevoting.org/RVstrat6 2. a lot of people will do it REGARDLESS of whether it's ratio
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
> My strategy does not change other voters' strategies. of course it does. this is basic game theory. but the point is, at some level of iterating on what other voters will do, you arrive at an effectively static "wave function
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
just look at the VSE figures. https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/vse-graph.html
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
yeah this is all explained here. score voting is even better than approval voting, obviously. http://scorevoting.net/RVstrat6 https://www.rangevoting.org/ShExpRes
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
tactical error is GOOD, because it donates more utility to society than that non-strategic voter loses. AND for a lot of not-so-math-savvy voters, an honest score ballot is actually a better vote than a botched attempt to use strategic appr
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
approval voting is extremely good. https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/vse-graph.html
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by ClayShentrup 1y ago
Yes!! https://www.electionbyjury.org/manifesto

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