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<pre><i>I'd said:<br><br></i><i></i>><i> But I'd told how easily a strategic faction can take advantage of and beat
</i>><i> a sincere-voting faction.
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Not to my satisfaction.<br><br>[endquote]<br><br>Of course that won't do. <br><br>If you want to claim that my statements referred to were incorrect,<br>then you need to tell why you think so. <br><br>I clearly told how, in MJ, a strategizing faction can take advantage of a sincere faction. Which<br>part of that description do you disagree with? Be specific.<br><i>
I'd said:<br><br></i><i></i>><i> Thanks, Kristofer, for confirming my conjecture: MJ strategy is like RV
</i>><i> strategy.
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</i>><i> This is for sure: In a u/a election, MJ's strategy is the same as that of
</i>><i> RV: Max-rate the acceptables and
</i>><i> min-rate the unacceptables.
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This is not true. If sending a message about the relative value within
either group is worth more than a thousand times less than winning the
election, the rational strategy is to use the top two and the bottom two
ratings.<br><br>[endquote]<br><br>Incorrect. In a u/a election, the all-important thing is ensuring that no<br>unacceptable candidate wins.<br><i>
</i>><i> I conjecture that, in a non-u/a, 0-info election, MJ's strategy is
</i>><i> likewise identical to that of RV: Max-rate the
</i>><i> above-mean candidates and min-rate the below-mean candidates.
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As above.
[endquote]<br><br>Strategy whose purpose is the the outcome of the current election is called "instrumental strategy".<br><br>It's usually or always what we're referring to when we speak of a method's voting strategy.<br><br>I was talking about instrumental strategy. That can be, and often is, more important than<br>sending a message. But sure, if what you want is to send a message about a merit-difference among the <br>candidates for whom you'd vote for in instrumental Approval voting, then of course you might not do<br>instrumental voting.<br><br>Sometimes, in mock elections, in rating the candidates,<br>I have slightly differed from instrumental voting in order to express a difference.<br><br>But, above, I was talking about instrumental strategy. Maybe you wouldn't do instrumental<br>strategy. One thing for certain is that anyone who considers it a u/a election will do <br>instrumental strategy.<br><br>Mike Ossipoff<br><br></pre> </div></body>
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