I was being semantically imprecise when I said average. I should have said searching for conditions that produce the highest additive utility. This seems different from pareto improvements when we’re talking about two agents agreeing to use their optimizing power together on some exterior conditions rather than simply the division of some finite resource.
I was being semantically imprecise when I said average. I should have said searching for conditions that produce the highest additive utility. This seems different from pareto improvements when we’re talking about two agents agreeing to use their optimizing power together on some exterior conditions rather than simply the division of some finite resource.
From a mathematical (or any practical) point of view, this distinction is completely irrelevant.
can you point me to anything relevant if you don’t want to make a longer response? I feel I must be missing something basic.