Monthly Archives: February 2010

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →