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Context I have written a series of longer posts about voting theory: a general primer, single-winner pathologies, multi-winner method building blocks, and a longer, harder-to-read piece where I struggled through to a metric for multi-winner methods. I believe that I should write a simpler, (relatively) shorter piece on proportional multi-winner...
I've been working on the article https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rh8v4ba9w5KTb6onD/ongoing-thoughts-on-proportional-voting-methods for some time now. From the beginning, I was driving towards defining a metric for proportional voting method quality that could be connected through some chain of reasoning and approximations to utilitarianism. I have now achieved such a definition, and am beginning to...
About this post This post was a work-in-progress, I (Jameson) updated it over the course of weeks/months, and the reposted it when it got substantial updates. I have now decided to leave it as it is for historical interest, as the next step would be a ground-up rewrite. I'm not...
I have signed up to give a LW mini-talk. I could in theory talk about various topics in Bayesian statistics and MCMC, but what I am actually interested in discussing right now are the ideas in this post: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rh8v4ba9w5KTb6onD/ongoing-thoughts-on-proportional-voting-methods If you have read that post, what topic there do you...
The Paradox of Voting, simply stated, is that voting in a large election almost certainly isn't worth your time (unless you think it's the most fun thing you could be doing). The guaranteed opportunity cost of going to vote will in most cases easily and predictably outweigh the expected benefits...
You may have seen either or both of my two prior posts here, in which I first said I'm beginning to seek a grant for some voting theory research after I graduate, and then looked into some of the possible sources of such a grant. In this post, I'll dig...
I'm considering applying for some kind of a grant from the effective altruism community. A quick sketch of the specifics is here. Raemon replied there with a list of possibilities. In this post, I'll look into each of those possibilities, to make this process easier for whoever comes next. In...