Vilfredo history

Vilfredo goes to Athens came from an intuition I (Pietro) had in 2009. I was looking for a fair way of voting, and I thought the fairest way of voting was that the only moment when a proposal was dominated by another proposal (and was thus going to be deleted) was when everybody who voted for the first proposal also voted for the second proposal. I was at the time collaborating with the Metagovernment group. And writing a EU grant proposal, EUGAGER. The EU grant proposal was never accepted, and eventually became a book (co-authored with Giovani Spagnolo). But this intuition continued on.

The idea of Vilfredo is to reach a consensus through further approximation, using a Human Based Genetic Algorithm. That is an algorithm where humans would provide the possible solution, and humans would provide the evaluation of the proposals. Then the mathematics, using the data provided by the system would filter some of the proposals that would remain for the next generation. And use those proposals as a seed to guide the people in the next generations.

As such the basic structure of Vilfredo is quite simple:

1. A question is asked.
2. people write possible answers
3. people vote which answers do they deem acceptable
4. the system filters the solution and:
   4a. If no solution reaches unanimity the filtered solution are presented to the players and the system goes to 2
   4b. If one or more solution has reached unanimity the system declares the winner, and exits the loop.