jsalvatier comments on No independence of irrelevant alternatives (picture proof) - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 03 May 2012 05:48PM

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Comment author: jsalvatier 05 May 2012 03:48:43PM 1 point [-]

Basically this says that decision symmetry and IIA are incompatible because the definition of "symmetry" depends "irrelevant alternatives". Yes?

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 May 2012 10:10:28AM 0 points [-]

In a way.

But as I said, you don't actually need symmetry to break IIA (non-dictatorship should be enough); it's just that there is an easy picture proof for symmetry.