HonoreDB comments on A call for solutions and a tease of mine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HonoreDB 16 January 2012 05:44:15AM 0 points [-]

It's not a prediction market, although that was the first idea I remember having when I was trying to work this out.

I do do math.

Comment author: Anubhav 16 January 2012 05:51:04AM 0 points [-]

Hmm, a mathematical framework then. (I doubt something like this would have a good solution that could be concisely expressed in words alone.)

Is it a voting system with some kind of safeguards against double-counting? As in, a single entity voting an infinite number of times for a particular option doesn't shift the outcome toward that option?

But no... you'd only come up with that if you were trying to optimise for anonymity.

I'm reasonably sure it's a mathematical framework, though.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2012 01:23:35PM 0 points [-]

He says ‘answers like “iterated runoff voting,” ... are not in themselves what I'm looking for’, so I think a voting system is not what he's thinking about.