<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 19, 2009, at 4:34 PM, . wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">er, not "if they are the frontrunners", but "if they are PERCEIVED to be the front-runners", which was the whole point of the experiment. :)<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Right. Strategy must be linked to knowledge (or at least conjecture) about the behavior of other voters. A voter with zero knowledge (of other voters) ought to vote like a dictator, regardless of method. I think. That may not apply to approval, since there isn't really a strategy-free approval vote.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Bright'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:33, .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thebrokenladder@gmail.com">thebrokenladder@gmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; ">no, this is EXACTLY the strategy my simulation uses. if X and Y are the frontrunners, and you prefer X to Y, then you give X and everyone you like better than X a "10", and Y and everyone you like less than Y a "0", and everyone else a sincere normalized utility.<div><div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div></body></html>