You don't, if you don't mind being irrelevant. I like to make a difference, so if I care about something, I get out there and do something meaningful about it. (That includes things other than SF fandom, such as my time spent as a public-transit advocate including a term on the Caltrain Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board Citizens' Advisory Committee as one of the appointees from Santa Clara County, California.)
When I wanted things to change in WSFS, I got out there and did the work necessary to make it happen. If I'd just sat back and complained that "I know better than you do, my proposals are obviously right, and you're stupid for not adopting them," then nothing would have happened and I would have been consigned to irrelevancy. Personally, I find that dissatisfying.
I believe the Center for Range voting has enough evidence in just a few pages to pretty much destroy IRV.
True, but it appears to me that it rests on a circular argument. You've defined the success conditions in a way that guarantees that your preferred alternative will always win.
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Re: I'm a geek
Date: 2007-01-24 03:53 am (UTC)When I wanted things to change in WSFS, I got out there and did the work necessary to make it happen. If I'd just sat back and complained that "I know better than you do, my proposals are obviously right, and you're stupid for not adopting them," then nothing would have happened and I would have been consigned to irrelevancy. Personally, I find that dissatisfying.
True, but it appears to me that it rests on a circular argument. You've defined the success conditions in a way that guarantees that your preferred alternative will always win.