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Douglas_Knight comments on Harsanyi's Social Aggregation Theorem and what it means for CEV - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: AlexMennen 05 January 2013 09:38PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 January 2013 11:38:27PM 0 points [-]

It is worth mentioning that Rawl's later Veil of Ignorance forces him to satisfy Harsanyi's axioms and Rawl's conclusions are a math error.

Comment author: AlexMennen 07 January 2013 12:09:04AM 0 points [-]

Harsanyi's axioms seem self-evidently desirable on their own. I didn't claim that they were a consequence of the Veil of Ignorance.