PhilGoetz comments on Averaging value systems is worse than choosing one - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 29 April 2010 03:27:00PM *  0 points [-]

You said "if agents are better than random" in headlines. I take "than random" to mean " > E f(x)". So do you assume so or not?

If agents are, on average, better than the average random agent as defined. No requirement that each agent be better than random.