VAuroch comments on The Weighted Majority Algorithm - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 22 September 2014 06:28:30AM 1 point [-]

What "random" means, in practice, is: the sort of thing that typical environments are not able to exploit.

No, it means "the sort of thing which is uncorrelated with the environment". What you want is for your responses to be correlated with the environment in a way that benefits you.