[EM] Strategy-free criterion

[Michael Ossipoff]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 07:25 Closed Limelike Curves <
closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, that's what I'm referring to. In what meaningful sense is it
> strategy-free?
>

I don’t remember. It was about 35 years ago, & it wasn’t widely-accepted, &
so I haven’t been hearing an mention of it.

I’m fairly sure that it was about some circumstance in which wv is
strategy-free.

But I assure you that wv is strategy-free for all intents & purposes, due
to its autodeterence.

>
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 5:16 AM Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Some time ago, I wrote a criterion that I called Strategy-Free-Criterion
>> (SFC).
>>
>> Is that what you were referring to?
>>
>> It was about a circumstance in which wv Condorcet is strategy-free. At
>> that time, autodeterence hadn’t been considered.
>>
>> SFC didn’t catch-on, & I haven’t heard mention of it lately, & so I don’t
>> know it’s definition. But wv Condorcet is strategy-free in a meaningful
>> sense.
>>
>> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 05:07 Michael Ossipoff <email9648742 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 14:15 Closed Limelike Curves <
>>> closed.limelike.curves at gmail.com>
>>> Ppwrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to work out how the strategy-free criterion actually relates
>>>> to strategy, because it just sounds like it means the majority-Condorcet
>>>> criterion ("if a candidate majority-beats every other, they have to win if
>>>> everyone is honest"). @Michael Ossipoff ?
>>>>
>>>  Closed, isn’t “Strategy-Free Criterion” your new name for FBC.
>>>
>>> It’s a very inaccurate name. FBC-complying methods aren’t strategy-free
>>> in any sense.
>>>
>>>  But they’re free of any need for *drastic* defensive strategy
>>> (favorite-burial or any defensive order-reversal).
>>>
>>> You want strategy-free? The wv Condorcet methods, such as RP(wv) &
>>> MinMax(wv), are strategy-free in a meaningful sense…effectively free of
>>> need for any defensive strategy…due to their autodeterence.
>>>
>>
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