4th June 2018, 9:09 PM
Good videos there. Maine's ranked choice system uses instant runoff, for the record. It seems like a fairly good system.
For that second video though, I have no idea why the "independence of irrelevant alternatives" would actually be a desirable thing, as that theorem posits, so most of that video feels kind of pointless because it's defending a critically flawed case. First, no option on a ballot is irrelevant, regardless of if that person or choice ends up winning or not! Whether a candidate or option wins or loses has no bearing on its importance or value on the ballot. And second, of course adding or removing options from a ballot is going to change the outcome, and it should. People make choices based on the options in front of them, and they are going to make different choices when given different options. Removing one option from a ballot SHOULD change the outcome to some extent, and there's nothing whatsoever negative about that.
That the only way to solve this not-a-problem situation is dictatorship is just more proof that it's not a good idea in the first place, but it didn't take that to make me think that, I dislike the idea regardless.
For that second video though, I have no idea why the "independence of irrelevant alternatives" would actually be a desirable thing, as that theorem posits, so most of that video feels kind of pointless because it's defending a critically flawed case. First, no option on a ballot is irrelevant, regardless of if that person or choice ends up winning or not! Whether a candidate or option wins or loses has no bearing on its importance or value on the ballot. And second, of course adding or removing options from a ballot is going to change the outcome, and it should. People make choices based on the options in front of them, and they are going to make different choices when given different options. Removing one option from a ballot SHOULD change the outcome to some extent, and there's nothing whatsoever negative about that.
That the only way to solve this not-a-problem situation is dictatorship is just more proof that it's not a good idea in the first place, but it didn't take that to make me think that, I dislike the idea regardless.