The optimality of coarse categories in decision-making and information storage
An agent who lacks preferences and instead makes decisions using criteria that are costly to create should select efficient sets of criteria, where the cost of making a given number of choice distinctions is minimized. Under mild conditions, efficiency requires that binary criteria with only two cat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Publishing Association
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science |
| Online Access: | http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.07529v1 |