If 30% of people can block the election, someone’s going to have to be in command of the troops. The least perverse option seems to be the last president. Trump could probably have gotten 30% to block it to stay in that chair. A minority blocking the election seems supposed to simulate (aka give a better alternative to) civil war, which is uncommon because it is costly. So perhaps blocking should be made costly to the populace. Say, tax everyone heavily for each blocked election and donate the money to foreign charities. This also incentivizes foreign trolls to cause blocked elections, which seems fair enough—if the enemy controls your election, it should crash, not put a puppet in office.
STAR is useless if people can assign real-valued scores. That makes me think that if it works, it’s for reasons of discrete mathematics, so we should analyze the system from the perspective of discrete mathematics before trusting it.
Instead of multiplying values >= 1 and “ignoring” smaller values, you should make explicit that you feed the voter scores through a function (in this case \x → max(0, log(x))) before adding them up. \x → max(0, log(x)) does not seem like the optimal function for any seemly purpose.
STAR is useless if people can assign real-valued scores. That makes me think that if it works, it’s for reasons of discrete mathematics, so we should analyze the system from the perspective of discrete mathematics before trusting it.
A fair point. If voters were allowed real-valued scores, they could make scores very close, and things still basically devolve into approval voting.
\x → max(0, log(x)) does not seem like the optimal function for any seemly purpose.
Also true. I just don’t know how to continue log into the negative ;p
If 30% of people can block the election, someone’s going to have to be in command of the troops. The least perverse option seems to be the last president. Trump could probably have gotten 30% to block it to stay in that chair. A minority blocking the election seems supposed to simulate (aka give a better alternative to) civil war, which is uncommon because it is costly. So perhaps blocking should be made costly to the populace. Say, tax everyone heavily for each blocked election and donate the money to foreign charities. This also incentivizes foreign trolls to cause blocked elections, which seems fair enough—if the enemy controls your election, it should crash, not put a puppet in office.
STAR is useless if people can assign real-valued scores. That makes me think that if it works, it’s for reasons of discrete mathematics, so we should analyze the system from the perspective of discrete mathematics before trusting it.
Instead of multiplying values >= 1 and “ignoring” smaller values, you should make explicit that you feed the voter scores through a function (in this case \x → max(0, log(x))) before adding them up. \x → max(0, log(x)) does not seem like the optimal function for any seemly purpose.
A fair point. If voters were allowed real-valued scores, they could make scores very close, and things still basically devolve into approval voting.
Also true. I just don’t know how to continue log into the negative ;p