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Eric Posner
Personal blog · ericposner.compoliticseconomics
Eric Posner writes ERIC POSNER, a personal blog at ericposner.com about politics and economics. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Quadratic Voting (2014)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Eric Posner's blog mainly for his quadratic voting proposal, offered as a fix for voting, karma and corporate governance problems. Other linked posts cover immigration law.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Most-linked posts?
- Quadratic Voting (2014)8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-05-02
What Hacker News says?
If you are going to hand out points for people to vote with, may I suggest quadratic voting.[0] [0] http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
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on “Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself”Submitted Quadratic Voting (2014) as a story · 210 points
HN discussionPrior to writing my response I did a brief search and in less than five minutes found multiple such people. Here are some: 1. Eric Posner - http://ericposner.com/is-an-immigration-ban-on-muslims-uncon... 2. Peter Spiro & David Martin - http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-muslim-re... 3. John Banzhaf - http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/president-obama-is-wrong-on-... And here ( http://blog.constitutionce…
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on “I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection”Submitted Quadratic voting (2014) as a story · 84 points
HN discussionThere's a variant of this that's been studied: quadratic voting, but more in the context of corporate governance. It actually can have positive effects. http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
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on “LA Times barred from Disney movies after report on corporate welfare”Submitted Twitter is a slot machine composed of humans (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy remove downvoting directly? I'm not against the idea, I just want to understand the thinking. I wonder if the problem is the binary nature of so many things. 5 star/1 star reviews are the most common, we have up and down votes, but no real context for that. I wonder if the problem that needs to be solved isn't context, rather than directional. This is me spitballing, so feel free to IGNORE everything below. I wa…
Comment linking /quadratic-voting/
on “NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments”Submitted Eric Posner on Tyler Cowen on Quadratic Voting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wish there was times that HN supported Quadratic Voting[0] so that I could more (but costly) up votes to a really sane and pertinent comment. [0] http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
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on “A modest proposal”Submitted Twitter's Slave Labor Force as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLook into quadratic voting ( http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/ ) as a solution to e.g. the gay marriage problem.
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on “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”Submitted Twenty theses about Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow does Quadratic Voting fare in meeting these criteria? http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
Comment linking /quadratic-voting/
on “Arrow's impossibility theorem”Submitted Why human rights? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSimilar to quadratic voting. http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/
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on “UK Election: What difference would proportional representation have made?”Interesting discussion by Glen Weyl on rethinking data as labor, rights, auctions, and commodification from his Radical Markets book[0,1]. I wasn't aware of his or Posner's work [2] until seeing an announcement of a talk earlier today. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLOtMMylv5EQ-1iC15BmlQIZ3... [1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html [2] http://ericposner.com/
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on “Why Facebook and Airbnb should be nationalized”
