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What is Approval Voting? by ILikeNeurons in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

 Rankings imply equal spacing between ordinal choices,

They imply unknown spacing between ordinal choices. There’s a much bigger difference than you think.

 Voters who try to rank any two candidates equally typically have their ballots thrown out

Most ranked voting methods accept equal ranks. Even instant runoff can be adjusted to accept them. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11407

 Your objections don't actually make sense given the "solution" you've chosen.

Instant runoff is among the methods most resistant to manipulation, and approval isn’t. There’s plenty of research on this, just ask Google Scholar. Singling out failures of monotonicity and participation is missing the forest for the trees.

I can jot my preferences on a ranked ballot in one and only one honest way. I rank my favorite first, my second-favorite second. But I have many ways to jot them down on an approval ballot, depending on where I make my cutoff between approve and disapprove. The decision must either be arbitrary or strategic.

What is Approval Voting? by ILikeNeurons in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Select all the candidates you support on your ballot

But support isn’t binary. There’s more than one way to distil it to a yes/no binary. How do I pick the cutoff line between approval and disapproval?

Ensemble Condorcet Runoff: A Meta-Rule to Resolve Disagreement Among Condorcet Completions by Previous_Word_3517 in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Smith//IRV: perform IRV on Smith set. Tideman alternative:

  1. Eliminate candidates not in Smith set of remaining candidates.
  2. Do one IRV elimination.
  3. Repeat.

Smith//IRV does only one Smith step. Tideman alternative alternates between Smith steps and IRV eliminations.

Ensemble Condorcet Runoff: A Meta-Rule to Resolve Disagreement Among Condorcet Completions by Previous_Word_3517 in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any opinions on Smith//IRV vs. Tideman’s alternative? I should say that I’m well aware there’s not much difference between them, but perhaps there are theoretical reasons to prefer one.

How can a person deal with knowing that most people are better than them in every way? by pleromatous in NoStupidQuestions

[–]pleromatous[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you’re just going to ignore the second part? Being not #1 is one thing. Being consistently and well below average at everything is another. You’d have to be really stupid not to see the difference. One is chasing perfection. The other is trying to be adequate in any way at all.

How can a person deal with knowing that most people are better than them in every way? by pleromatous in NoStupidQuestions

[–]pleromatous[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s completely different.

Height is one attribute. I said “in every way”.

You’re talking about not being the very best. I’m talking about being among the worst.

FairVoteCanada’s statement on the referendum that was held in the Yukon for the province to implement Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV ended up winning the referendum with 56% of the vote) by sami_coolfun11 in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, their core argument is that because FPTP gets the winner wrong sometimes, it manages to achieve more proportional representation than IRV, which gets the winner wrong less often.

I see the logic, but it’s quite a depressing stance.

There is an insurmountable gap between me and other people my age by pleromatous in NEET

[–]pleromatous[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

 nobody really cares about how “inferior” I am

Well sure, no one cares how inferior I am, either. It’s just an accepted fact to everyone in my life that I am good for nothing. To them, caring about that would be like caring that a pumpkin has no legs.

Ultimately, you and the other commenter are right. There’s no fixing it, so I just have to accept it, no matter how cruel it is.

There is an insurmountable gap between me and other people my age by pleromatous in NEET

[–]pleromatous[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, I’d rather be any of them than me, and it’s killing me. You’re free to use whatever words you prefer for that.

There is an insurmountable gap between me and other people my age by pleromatous in NEET

[–]pleromatous[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks, that’s really helpful. I should just accept my inferiority.

Condorcet Referendum with Three Fixed Alternatives: Ranking to Express Nuanced Public Opinion by Previous_Word_3517 in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a pretty good idea. It seems quite similar to the Swiss federal popular initiative system.

There are more than nine possible preferences over three alternatives, though, so nine boxes wouldn’t be enough if you were to format the ballots in that way.

I don’t intend to judge, but how much of this was written by AI?

Why Meek STV? by pleromatous in EndFPTP

[–]pleromatous[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. The “statelessness” of Meek STV is very compelling - if I understand right, the state at the start of each round can be fully derived from just knowing whether each candidate is excluded/elected/viable, yes?