DaFranker comments on Negative and Positive Selection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 07 July 2012 03:06:51AM 0 points [-]

Yes, that it does, or at least it assumes that the difference is trivial within this decision scheme and the expected utility returns of a specialist are higher than the expected utility of a generalist even when taking second place into account.