On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: > Here's an idea to encourage more votes to be bought, will turn it over > to the economic automation mavens for possible implementation: > > Create a Bayes-type partnership that, if a vote is put on sale within > the first three days of a proposal's voting period but not bought by > someone else within the first six, then it buys it and/or casts its > own votes, specifying a random value and/or the opposite of the > seller's default.
At current sell prices, if the partnership were to buy others' votes on a regular basis, e would consume a _massive_ amount of VP. Using its own votes would be more tenable, although most controversial proposals have AI >= 2, so this could only have limited effect...