On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:49:53PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > Well if you're right then I believe the electorate gets exactly what > it asks for--slow, steady improvement over the status quo. > > I.E. I believe the voting system works as desired--or at least as I > desire it. As I attempted to explain in my reply to Raul Miller, that you may disagree with the fanciful meditations which let me to start thinking about this issue isn't really germane to the problem I raised. As I said to Raul: [...] if the technique is consistently used, and people don't adapt their voting practices to compensate for it, that it could result in zero progress in an infinite number of steps, regardless of the actual collective desired pace of progress. But please see the entire message[1] before rebutting the above paragraph. :) [1] Message-ID: <[🔎] 20031102034430.GE806@deadbeast.net> -- G. Branden Robinson | Eternal vigilance is the price of Debian GNU/Linux | liberty. branden@debian.org | -- Wendell Phillips http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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