[EM] Amalgamation details, hijacking, and free-riding

Jameson Quinn jameson.quinn at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 00:46:27 PDT 2011


Well, kinda; but in a sense, that pushes the strategy into the
tree-building.

2011/8/6 Juho Laatu <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk>

> On 4.8.2011, at 2.09, Jameson Quinn wrote:
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> > Free riding in some form is inevitable in a good system. (That is, any
> system which avoids free riding entirely would be horribly warped by that
> necessity).
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> How about tree methods? If candidates are ordered as a binary tree (instead
> of an open list), then there are no choices between three or more branches,
> and related free riding becomes impossible.
>
> Juho
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