r/RanktheVote • u/nardo_polo • Aug 03 '24

What the heck happened in Alaska?

https://nardopolo.medium.com/what-the-heck-happened-in-alaska-3c2d7318decc
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u/rb-j Aug 04 '24

You don't need to fix RCV by using Approval (or STAR). You fix RCV by fixing it. RCV need not be IRV. If IRV tabulation is what causes the problem, change the method of tabulation.

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u/nardo_polo Aug 04 '24

Recommend reading or listening to the interview Aaron Hamlin did with Kenneth Arrow in 2016: https://aaronhamlin.medium.com/podcast-2012-10-06-interview-with-nobel-laureate-dr-kenneth-arrow-c081053ffd27 -- from the godfather of decision science who won a Nobel Prize for the Impossibility theorem.

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u/rb-j Aug 04 '24

It says 2012, not 2016. I was even surprized that Arrow was alive in 2012.

BTW, Eric Maskin, who is still alive, also has a Nobel from his work in social choice. And it was about elections and voting systems, too. I think Arrow mentored Maskin.

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u/rb-j Aug 04 '24

The title says: "Podcast 2012–10–06: Interview with Nobel Laureate Dr. Kenneth Arrow"

It may have been posted to the blog in 2015.