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Stuart_Armstrong comments on Median utility rather than mean? - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 September 2015 04:35PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 September 2015 01:03:31PM 1 point [-]

Except that median-maximising respects independence for options that are available to you (or can be trivially tweaked to do so). It only violates independence for hypothetical bad options that will never be available to you.