Re: perverse incentives, One week left to object

["Bron Gondwana" <brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, at 07:04, John R Levine wrote:

> Can you give an example of what you're thinking about? Remember, the idea is

> you randomly pick 10, and then if someone says no, the other 9 continue and

> you randomly pick a replacement from the remaining volunteers.

It's less direct than knowing exactly who the next person is, but if you

know who all the remaining people are, you can estimate how likely it is

that the replacement will have various characteristics.  As an extreme

example, if all of the remaining candidates were from the same company,

you'd have a pretty good idea who the replacement's employer would be.

In that extreme case it doesn't matter what our algorithm is, so there's no point trying to optimise for it.

Bron.

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