conchis comments on The Second Best - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Wei_Dai 26 July 2009 10:58PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 27 July 2009 04:51:57AM 0 points [-]

I don't know the literature, but I thought the generic violations theorems covered more ground that that. Can you give an example that is generically Pareto efficient? Your cancelling externalities example is not generic. The other example doesn't seem well-posed enough to talk about genericity.

Comment author: conchis 27 July 2009 05:50:01AM 1 point [-]

Why does my original point require genericity?

Comment author: wedrifid 28 July 2009 02:28:21AM 0 points [-]

Logic appears to side with you on this one.