Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist...
by mehrdadn on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @02:22PM
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This sounds an awful lot like voting impossibility theorems (Arrow's and its generalizations)... are they related?
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Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist...
by natalyarostova on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:18PM
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I don't think so. This is simpler, it's just stating that an optimization problem on a constrained information set must be weakly dominated by the full information set.
Arrow's theorem is a more domain specific and elegant proof regarding political properties that can be simultaneously held.
Re:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Absolutely Right About Racist...
by hannasanarion on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:29PM
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More like the orthogonality thesis, I think. These different value axes are totally unrelated, and building an algorithm that maximizes one does not necessarily mean that it maximizes the others as well, and this mismatch can have disastrous consequences, a la "The Paperclip Machine"