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How We Should Vote (Range Voting)

Undefined Behavior · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Probability & game theoryRecreational & visual mathUS politics & elections

What it is

A six-minute explainer from Undefined Behavior on range (score) voting. It follows an earlier video on Arrow's Theorem and shows how range voting seems to satisfy the criteria Arrow's Theorem says no ranked system can.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters link it in voting-reform discussions as a concise explanation of range voting versus other systems.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “I'll post some videos from people smarter then me”

    Voting system videos.

    LoonyBalloony, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream”

  2. “The following video covers 'Range Voting' in relation to Arrow's Theorem”

    Covers range voting in relation to Arrow's Theorem.

    redahs, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “Kenneth Arrow Has Died”

  3. “Relevant videos (IMO)”

    Relevant to changing how we vote.

    thelasthuman, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: range voting, arrow's theorem, score voting, social choice, election reform

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