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13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 April 2007 09:50PM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 02 April 2007 02:54:52AM 2 points [-]

Eliezer, given opinions on some variable X, majoritarianism is not committed to the view that your optimal choice facing any cost function is E[X]. The claim should instead be that the best choice is some average appropriate to the problem. Since you haven't analyzed what is the optimal choice in the situation you offer, how can we tell that majoritarianism in fact gives the wrong answer here?