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What might be the role of Vilfredo in online democracy?

 

asked by canderson

Alternative proposals, that emerged from last endorsing round

The different proposals do not represent the best proposals, nor the more popular. Strictly speaking they are the pareto front of the set of proposals. You can think of it as the smallest set of proposals such that every participant is represented.

Proposal

Maybe we could set up a mixture system. 
I present here only an example. Suppose that in a system you have a difference between facts and positions.  You could not make a fact and an positions compete. That would be like comparing apples and oranges instead. Facts should run their own Vilfredo question. And positions should run their own Vilfredo instance. Suppose you are speaking about abortion. The first would run a question like: "On the topic of Abortion, what are the important facts that should be considered when deciding what to legislate". The second would have a second question that would run pretty much like this: "given the facts agreed upon in ..., what should be decided on the topic of abortion".

The interesting thing would happen when people would not even agree on the facts. 

At the moment the system would be quite clunky, as it would have to adapt to a website that is not divided into facts and positions questions. But if successful some changes might be made. What is important is that the changes would not have to be imposed on all the questions, but only on some.


Endorsed by: vilfredo jb555

Proposal

Vilfredo should be used to ask well specified open questions. The resulting answer should then be applied if an agreement has been found in a reasonable number of generations. And if this is not the case the result (the Pareto Front of the solutions, in the last generation) should be inserted in a Condorcet Voting method that would define which solution to apply.

Endorsed by: vilfredo jb555

Generation 4: Phase: Writing New Proposals

What should you do now? Write new proposals. How? You can insert brand new ideas; rewrite previous ideas (maybe trying to explain them better); recover old ideas from the history of the question; try to write a proposal that represent an acceptable compromise between different winning proposals. If you do this well, the new proposal will be endorsed by both the proponent of the first and of the second proposal, and you will have effectively joined those proposals.

Number of authors of new proposals: 0

Number of proposals written so far: 2

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Note: Proposals can be of any length and may include an abstract of up to 500 characters in length if you wish. When proposals are listed at the voting stage the abstract will be displayed if one exists, otherwise the full proposal will be displayed. For proposals longer than 1000 characters the abstract is mandatory.

Time since first proposal on this generation: 210 days, 1 hours and 52 minutes.
NOTE: 3 days must have passed between the first proposal and the moment when the questioner can move the question on.

Abstract (Optional)

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View History of The Question. Here you can see who voted for what, what proposals were eliminated. You can recover past proposals that you think should not be lost. Maybe explaining them better.