By “voting”, I mean the following general problem: Suppose there are candidates and voters. Each voter produces a total ordering of all candidates. A voting procedure is a function which takes as input all orderings, and produces an output ranking of all candidates. Arrow’s impossibility theorem states that there is really no satisfactory voting procedure [...]
Entries from February 2010
February 17, 2010
Quantish Physics: A Discrete Model of Quantum Physics
In the book Good and Real, author Gary Drescher, who received his PhD from MIT’s AI lab, defends the view that determinism is a consistent and coherent view of the world. In doing so, he enters many different arenas: ethics, decision theory, and physics. In his chapter on quantum mechanics, he defends the “many-worlds” interpretation [...]
