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wadavis comments on One issue: teach 10 or sway 200? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wadavis 17 July 2013 10:48:56PM 0 points [-]

Given that losing is not catastrophic, it is the preferred tactic to create 10 agents with the same goal as you as opposed to a one-off finite gain.

In short: 1x(t)+200 < 10x(t) for sufficiently large t and positive values of x'(t)

Also ethically, I lean toward having 10 persons making informed decisions than 200 humans following the leader.