[computer-go] Hydra theory (was Hybrid theory)

[Don Dailey]

terry mcintyre wrote:
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That particular article doesn't come across as being very scholarly.   
I would much prefer to see a good quality paper on it.

Take this with a grain of salt, but here is my own ad-hoc system (could
be bad):

1. Each voter has 1 vote.

2. He can distribute that vote any way he prefers among the candidates 
by breaking it up into fractions.


This system might be ok with un-biased voters such as computers who do
not attempt to vote strategically.   I don't really know,  it might have
serious weaknesses.    It could be tuned by giving some agents more
voting power than others if that works out to be better decision making.

- Don





> The author of this particular page makes much of the pitfalls of strategic voting, which should not matter to a set of emotionally disinterested, independent agent routines. But range voting has one further advantage over borda voting: expressiveness. If an agent is given 99 votes to cast, the agent can say that A is a really fine move, worth 45 points; B and C and D are worth 15 points each, and I have no opinion on the remaining choices" -- or whatever reflects the state of the board as understood by this particular agent. This expressiveness may help or hinder; hard to say.
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