army1987 comments on Suggestions for naming a class of decision theories - Less Wrong Discussion
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It's a three-value range voting (-1, 0, 1), right? Or am I supposed to choose only one? (I've downvoted three and upvoted two plus the karma sink.)
Yes, with this many options I think three-range voting is better than approval (0, 1) voting. We don't want to settle on one that 2/3 of people love and 1/3 of people hate, rather than one that 1/2 of people love and 1/2 of people are indifferent toward.
The problem is that the karma sink doesn't work if abs(number of upvotes - number of downvotes) > 1...