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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

This is an old article, but I've just read it, and it seems exactly wrong to me. More generally, consider a p-voting system, where the cost of casting x votes is x^p. It's intuitively clear, I think, that the larger p is, the greater the incentive to collude, or to buy votes outside the system. But quadratic voting is a p-voting system with p=2, and ordinary voting, that is one person one vote, is a p-voting system with p=infinity. And indeed the entire system of political parties, representative democracy, and all that can be viewed as an attempt to codify collusive voting in a scrutable way.

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RobinHanson's avatar

Even if the voting rules matter a lot less than the people who vote, it can be a lot harder to change the latter than the former.

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