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12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 March 2011 07:54PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 12 March 2011 04:23:22AM 1 point [-]

Do you have any candidates for a "reasonable measure"? It occurs to me that if you use something like the universal distribution, you introduce a circularity in your decision algorithm, because your decisions influence which persons have more measure, which in turn influences the preferences that go into making those decisions.