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If there are no incentive problems (i.e. if everyone is honestly seeking the truth) then Aumann's Agree-to-Disagree Theorem tells you that if the voters are allowed to revise their votes after seeing the outcome, they can't ultimately disagree (at least if there is some objectively correct answer). (And various results by people like Scott Aaronson suggest that the convergence to unanimity should be fast.)

So if we see persistent non-unanimity in these votes (which, obviously, we do), and if we wwant want to understand what's going on, we've got to ask exactly why Aumann's Theorem doesn't apply, and that's harder than it looks (see various papers of Robin Hanson for why the most obvious solutions fail).

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If there are no incentive problems (i.e. if everyone is honestly seeking the truth) then Aumann's Agree-to-Disagree Theorem tells you that if the voters are allowed to revise their votes after seeing the outcome, they can't ultimately disagree (at least if there is some objectively correct answer). (And various results by people like Scott Aaronson suggest that the convergence to unanimity should be fast.)

So if we see persistent non-unanimity in these votes (which, obviously, we do), and if we wwant to understand what's going on, we've got to ask exactly why Aumann's Theorem doesn't apply, and that's harder than it looks (see various papers of Robin Hanson for why the most obvious solutions fail).