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orthonormal comments on Suggestions for naming a class of decision theories - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 05:22PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 17 March 2012 07:28:14PM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 March 2012 08:11:57PM 0 points [-]

The problem is that the karma sink doesn't work if abs(number of upvotes - number of downvotes) > 1...