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Vaniver comments on Democracy and rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: homunq 30 October 2013 12:07PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 31 October 2013 03:32:14AM *  2 points [-]

I'm glad you've opened a discussion about this, BTW, even if it turns out you are wrong.

I was wrong. Hansen's 2002 proof was much, much easier for me to understand than the other ones, but I was reluctant to generalize it past 2 voters until I wrestled with homunq's example. Even after seeing it in the 3 voter case, I had to resist an impulse that said "but surely there's an n such that an n voter situation works!"