Alicorn comments on LW/OB Quotes - Fall 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 02 September 2009 05:54:51PM 2 points [-]

And 'alternative' should be used for any number of choices, provided they're mutually exclusive.

For maximum pedanticness, an alternative is one of two or more time-identical, agent-identical actions or sets of actions that the agent in question is able to perform. An alternative set is the complete list of all alternatives available to a given agent for a given span of time.