Background:
- Nonlinear systems dynamics
- Voting method properties, voting method review
- Selections from spatial theory of voting
Main topics:
- Cyclic preference --> agenda control determines outcome theorem
- Approval voting indeterminacy theorem
- Political irrationality essay
- Democratic irrationality theorem
- Media agenda control (see: Do the Media Govern?)
- Circular flows of power (Stalin, self-selecting boards of directors)
- and instability and positive feedback loops
- Arrow's theorem
- Voting gaming theorem
- Circular flow of power via control of agenda
- Circular flow of power via control of "facts"
Side topics:
- Could an "Illuminati" exploit this to control decision-making? What if there are multiple Illuminatis, what would be the dynamics of conflict between them?
- Politics and money
- Paradigm shifts in science
- Confabulation in injured human brains
- Confabulation in healthy human brains
- Theorems in conspiracy theory
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