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• Introduce yourself
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  I know, “him again.”
  I would love to converse about this. And I would LOVE to be talked out of (my view of) Democracy. I hope anyone can convince me otherwise… trust me, it would be a huge relief. Then I could focus on ranked choice, Borda or Condorcet as the key to saving the world.

  Here’s me: God did not come down and say, “here’s the rule book for democracy: vote every 4 years, electoral college, tricameral system, yadda yadda.” Making up rules to voting is putting the cart in front of the horse. The only thing that matters is that we all have equalness and this be converted into law. [see “Golden Rule’” any religion] So, there you are. A person, at her core, is a binary vote, 247, from cradle to grave. A leader, Oprah or Trump or You lasts if most of the people are happy (vote thumbs up). I have taken apart our decrepit antique engine of democracy, cleaned it down to its core and rebuilt it with only what is absolutely necessary so that it works as best as possible forever: Democracy.

  Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Saving the World!

  p.s. “Clean” law the foundation for saving the world. The cleaner the better. Real law starts with god (the equalness of all people) and is enacted by a specific and immediately accountable human proxy (a disposable leader).♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

• Electoral Theory 101
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  @cfrank said in Pairwise Matrix / Preference / Ranked Pairs / Cardinal pairwise:

  Cardinals are ordinals with an enriched structure, since in addition to ordering they have some sort of “difference magnitude” structure.

  This is the answer. You can rank three candidates 1, 2, 3 but give them scores (out of 10) of 10, 1, 0. So that tells you more than just your ranking.

  Obviously in real life elections, there's debate about the meaning of the scores and whether they're just used as a strategical device rather than a genuine measure of preference difference, but that's for another day.

• Forum Policy and Resources
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  Thank you both for keeping an eye on this and deleting the spam. If you have suggestions for the settings I'm open to whatever seems like the best option. I don't have strong opinions either way as long as people like you both are taking care of it if it does occur.

  If that wasn't the case I'd say we should look into other options.