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 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!