Voting Theory

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A voting theory primer for rationalists

Jameson Quinn12 Apr 2018 15:15 UTC

234 points

98 comments17 min readLW link 2 reviews

5 general voting pathologies: lesser names of Moloch

Jameson Quinn13 Apr 2018 18:38 UTC

73 points

16 comments10 min readLW link

Maximal Lottery-Lotteries

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 20:39 UTC

72 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

Multi-winner Voting: a question of Alignment

Jameson Quinn17 Apr 2018 18:51 UTC

43 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

Deconstructing 321 Voting

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 3:35 UTC

40 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

I’m Voting For Ranked Choice, But I Don’t Like It

jefftk20 Sep 2020 18:40 UTC

32 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

A Voting Puzzle, Some Political Science, and a Nerd Failure Mode

ChrisHallquist10 Oct 2013 2:10 UTC

142 points

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Thoughts on Voting Methods

abramdemski17 Nov 2020 20:23 UTC

61 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

Imperfect Voting Systems

Scott Alexander20 Jul 2012 0:07 UTC

62 points

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Quadratic voting for the 2018 Review

Ben Pace20 Dec 2019 22:59 UTC

39 points

42 comments5 min readLW link

Why Ranked Choice Voting Isn’t Great

jefftk19 Oct 2019 11:10 UTC

21 points

28 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[not ongoing] Thoughts on Proportional voting methods

Jameson Quinn22 Jul 2020 2:46 UTC

32 points

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Is voting theory important? An attempt to check my bias.

Jameson Quinn17 Feb 2019 23:45 UTC

42 points

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Important open problems in voting

Closed Limelike Curves1 Jul 2024 2:53 UTC

33 points

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[Question] Problems with using approval voting to elect to a multi-individual body?

RyanCarey28 Sep 2021 11:03 UTC

8 points

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Quadratic Voting and Collusion

leogao17 Nov 2021 0:19 UTC

41 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Why Huntington-Hill?

jefftk25 Oct 2020 0:50 UTC

17 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Are deference games a thing?

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Apr 2022 8:57 UTC

32 points

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Gaming Democracy

Froolow30 Jul 2014 9:45 UTC

14 points

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Easy fixing Voting

Charbel-Raphaël2 Oct 2022 17:03 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Multi-Winner 3-2-1 Voting

Yoav Ravid30 Oct 2023 3:31 UTC

14 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

Nash Score for Voting Techniques

abramdemski26 Nov 2020 19:29 UTC

20 points

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Maximal Lotteries

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 8:54 UTC

75 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Voting Theory Introduction

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 8:48 UTC

80 points

8 comments6 min readLW link

Aumann voting; or, How to vote when you’re ignorant

PhilGoetz2 Apr 2009 18:54 UTC

12 points

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Propinquity Cities So Far

mako yass16 Nov 2020 23:12 UTC

24 points

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Preference Aggregation as Bayesian Inference

beren27 Jul 2023 17:59 UTC

14 points

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[Question] What Are Your Preferences Regarding The FLI Letter?

JenniferRM1 Apr 2023 4:52 UTC

−4 points

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Votes-per-Dollar

Adam Golding10 Apr 2023 2:20 UTC

−20 points

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(adamgolding.substack.com)

Voting is like donating thousands of dollars to charity

Academian5 Nov 2012 1:02 UTC

41 points

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[Question] Voting-like mechanisms which address size of preferences?

abramdemski18 Mar 2021 23:23 UTC

36 points

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[Question] “New EA cause area: voting”; or, “what’s wrong with this calculation?”

Optimization Process26 Feb 2021 16:50 UTC

18 points

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Ranked Choice Voting is Arbitrarily Bad

AppliedDivinityStudies5 Apr 2021 6:44 UTC

10 points

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Transforming Democracy: A Unique Funding Opportunity for US Federal Approval Voting

Aaron Hamlin28 Jun 2023 22:07 UTC

25 points

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(Geometrically) Maximal Lottery-Lotteries Exist

Lorxus3 May 2024 19:29 UTC

13 points

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Democracy beyond majoritarianism

Arturo Macias3 Sep 2024 15:10 UTC

5 points

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(Geometrically) Maximal Lottery-Lotteries Are Probably Not Unique

Lorxus10 May 2024 16:00 UTC

16 points

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Why not parliamentarianism? [book by Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos]

Arturo Macias8 Jul 2024 14:57 UTC

2 points

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Thoughts On Democracy

Zero Contradictions4 Aug 2024 6:02 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(zerocontradictions.net)

Four Levels of Voting Methods

hive26 Sep 2024 18:15 UTC

17 points

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(hiveism.substack.com)

Should we abstain from voting? (In nondeterministic elections)

B Jacobs2 Oct 2024 10:07 UTC

5 points

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(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Agenda Manipulation

Pazzaz9 Nov 2024 14:13 UTC

2 points

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Rationality of demonstrating & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 0:09 UTC

24 points

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Individual Rationality Needn’t Generalize to Rational Consensus

Akshat Mahajan4 May 2020 22:53 UTC

42 points

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Voting Phase of 2018 LW Review

Ben Pace8 Jan 2020 3:35 UTC

51 points

29 comments4 min readLW link

Politics as Charity

CarlShulman23 Sep 2010 5:33 UTC

37 points

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Arrow’s Theorem is a Lie

alyssavance24 Oct 2009 20:46 UTC

43 points

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Storable Votes with a Pay as you win mechanism: a contribution for institutional design

Arturo Macias11 Mar 2024 15:58 UTC

17 points

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Strategyproof Mechanisms: Possibilities

badger2 Jun 2014 2:26 UTC

42 points

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Split-a-Dollar Game

Martin Sustrik24 Aug 2020 4:54 UTC

29 points

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Practical post on 4 #ProRep methods (Proportional Representation)

Jameson Quinn9 Jan 2021 14:56 UTC

37 points

12 comments11 min readLW link

Taking Good Heart Tokens Seriously, So Help Me God

Jackson Wagner1 Apr 2022 23:29 UTC

33 points

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[Question] Quadratic voting with automatic collusion?

SarahSrinivasan25 Apr 2022 16:15 UTC

10 points

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Open Problem in Voting Theory

Scott Garrabrant17 Oct 2022 20:42 UTC

75 points

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Legal Brief: Plurality Voting is Unconstitutional

c.trout21 Oct 2022 4:55 UTC

6 points

20 comments11 min readLW link

(medium.com)

Decision making under model ambiguity, moral uncertainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig13 Nov 2022 12:50 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Fair Collective Efficient Altruism

Jobst Heitzig25 Nov 2022 9:38 UTC

2 points

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