This is an opinionated introduction to a piece of math-based social theory.
The two followups on Moloch and Alignment also helped flesh out the key intuitions.
It’s written by someone with a lot of expertise in the field.
My biggest hesitation(s) with curating this:
I didn’t find it practical (yet). In my head voting theory is still its own disconnected thing from the ways I think about solving social or utilitarian problems in my life.
It’s quite long.
Overall though the opinionated style of the writing made it much more readable, and I expect to come back here when thinking more about preference aggregation in my own work (on LW). I’m a big fan of people writing down their expertise in a digestible way—thanks for writing these up!
I’ve curated this post for these reasons:
This is an opinionated introduction to a piece of math-based social theory.
The two followups on Moloch and Alignment also helped flesh out the key intuitions.
It’s written by someone with a lot of expertise in the field.
My biggest hesitation(s) with curating this:
I didn’t find it practical (yet). In my head voting theory is still its own disconnected thing from the ways I think about solving social or utilitarian problems in my life.
It’s quite long.
Overall though the opinionated style of the writing made it much more readable, and I expect to come back here when thinking more about preference aggregation in my own work (on LW). I’m a big fan of people writing down their expertise in a digestible way—thanks for writing these up!
What would I have to do to make this a sequence?
Go to the library page, scroll down to ‘community sequences’, and hit the button ‘new sequence’. You need an image for the header/icon.