Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by the_omegist on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:08AM (#32410570)

For your 1st point I had to google "Approval voting" : it's the Condorcet method, it seems...

Why bother improving a method that is inherently flawed? You can chose 50 candidates but they are all stupid and corrupt that makes no difference.

Why not make the system more robust and go with liquid democracy [1] ? (yes, I know, many technical/security challenges to overcome, first)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

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Re:Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are tal... by charwalker on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:04PM (#32418442)

Because Condorcet is still better than nearly all implementations of first past the post. But I think the commenter is getting at instant runoff voting methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

There is a comparison between these three systems in the Condorcet wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Comparison_wi...

None are perfect but IRV is in use and effective. Tactical voting is still an option but at scale either obvious or difficult to organize without being obvious.

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