Episode 48 - Chasing the Perfect Voting System with Daniel Kronovet
Today's discussion with Daniel Kronovet is about social choice theory and voting systems. The topics include:
- The history of the theory versus the practice which is much older (American founder and ancient Greece)
- Multi-party voting, ranked voting, and Condorcet
- Arrow's Theorem
- Relation to Surveys and Foursquare
- Blockchain voting and allocating budget.
Daniel’s Bio
Daniel Kronovet is a data scientist with a focus in machine learning and a special interest in voting and governance. He is currently working as a blockchain engineer at Colony, an Ethereum startup, and before that was a machine learning engineer at Foursquare. He has an MA in math and computer science from Columbia, and a BA in political economy and cognitive science from UC Berkeley.
Book Suggestion
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
Links
Decentralized Capital Allocation via Budgeting Boxes from Colony
Introducing BudgetBox - a gentler description
An Analysis of Pairwise Preference - Daniel’s Thesis
To build a better ballot - an interactive guide to alternative voting systems by Nicky Case
The Logic of Collective Rating by Heinrich Nax
Gödel made Easy - Bob Murphy Show podcast episode
Previous Episodes
Episode 39 on Mathematical Paradoxes
Episode 29 on Blockchain in Government
Episode 19 also with Daniel Kronovet on Information Theory
Episode 5 as an introduction to Ethereum
Episode 4 on Gerrymandering
Episode 3 on Foursquare’s Venue Ratings, which is a voting system and ballot of sorts
