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by agentgt 3221 days ago
This sort of reminds of "voting theory" and if I recall it was proven by I think a nobel prize winner that there cannot be a fair winner.

Obviously it's not entirely analogous but I would not be surprised if it mapped over to this domain.

Edit: on mobile so late on the link to Kenneth Arrow https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo...

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That theorem, being about when every user provides a complete ranking, does not apply in this case.