bluej100 comments on Navigating disagreement: How to keep your eye on the evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 April 2010 01:31:49PM 2 points [-]

Fairness and housework may not be best handled as an enumeration problem. I know a family (two adults, one child) which started by listing the necessary housework, and then each listing which things they liked doing, which they disliked, and which they were neutral about, and came to a low-stress agreement.

Admittedly, this takes good will, honesty, and no one in the group who's too compulsive about doing or not doing housework.

Comment author: bluej100 28 April 2010 12:42:55AM 1 point [-]

Steven Brams has devised some fair division algorithms that don't require good will: see his surplus procedure ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_procedure ) and his earlier adjusted winner procedure ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjusted_Winner_procedure ).