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

[Don Dailey]

> Here's another approach: "Range Voting"
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> http://rangevoting.org/rangeVborda.html
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> 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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A better reference is the wikepedia reference to range voting.     I
definitely understand it better now. 

In range voting you basically just score every candidate any way you
choose.    And it also does satisfy many desirable properties.

Also, approval voting is a special case of range voting. 

With range voting for computer agents,  you would have to normalize
somehow so that you were on the same scale.    For instance do you give
99 to your favorite move and 0 to your least favorite?  Or do you base
it on your feeling of how likely it is to win?    With one view you
might score most every move around 50, with another view you would try
to spread it between 0 and 99.  


- Don



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