Vulture comments on Mechanism Design: Constructing Algorithms for Strategic Agents - Less Wrong

34 Post author: badger 30 April 2014 06:37PM

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Comment author: badger 01 May 2014 01:25:08PM 3 points [-]

Thanks for catching that!

I did introduce a lot here. Now that I've thrown all the pieces of the model out on the table, I'll include refreshers as I go along so it can actually sink in.

Comment author: Vulture 01 May 2014 01:37:43PM 0 points [-]

Oh, and now that I'm going over it more carefully, another nitpick: You don't seem to actually define the notation Π_i before using it in the definition of a social choice function, and it isn't clear (to me) from context what it's supposed to mean.

Comment author: badger 01 May 2014 02:35:43PM 2 points [-]

That's an indexed Cartesian product, analogous to sigma notation for indexed summation, so is the set of all vectors of agent types.

Comment author: Vulture 01 May 2014 02:53:35PM 2 points [-]

Oh, okay. Hah, here I was trying to fight my instinct to automatically interpret capital-pi as a product. Thanks!