[extropy-chat] Threesome as most efficient social arrangement?

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Wed Nov 23 21:20:42 UTC 2005


--- Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> Extending to a threesome would provide the additional advantage of
> sure decision-making due to the tie-breaking effect of a third vote.

For those decisions which can only go one of two ways.  (A common
fallacy is to pretend that most decisions are that way, when in fact
there are often third alternatives that are usually only identified if
people don't rush to accept the existence of only two options.)

Rough consensus is not always the same thing as democracy.



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