Comment on Histocracy: Open, Effective Group Decision-Making With Weighted Voting

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:49:40 GMT

Well, then I think you haven't put enough thought into how the system might be gamed (as it would be in practice). With your initial naive version, there would be an incentive to weigh in only on decisions that are slam-dunks and on decisions that you personally have a stake in, using the first to "buy" credibility that you "spend" on the other. Because of this, difficult decisions would be dominated by people with ulterior motives.

Now, of course there can be fixes for this, but it serves to illustrate that your system probably won't be perfect fresh out of the box. Again, I think it would be an improvement on a system that doesn't even track people's records, but I don't share your total zeal.

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