RSS

Pareto Efficiency

TagLast edit: 20 Jun 2024 19:22 UTC by Gunnar_Zarncke

In welfare economics or choice theory, we are looking for “best” outcomes. An outcome is called Pareto efficient or Pareto optimal if there are no ways left to make one person better-off, unless we are willing to make some other person worse-off.

The Pareto front consists of all Pareto-efficient situations.

Canonical post: Being the (Pareto) Best in the World

This tag is about articles explaining or exploring different aspects of this concept.

Be­ing the (Pareto) Best in the World

johnswentworth24 Jun 2019 18:36 UTC
440 points
59 comments3 min readLW link3 reviews

Fat Tails Dis­cour­age Compromise

niplav17 Jun 2024 9:39 UTC
53 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Writ­ing On The Pareto Frontier

johnswentworth17 Sep 2021 0:05 UTC
73 points
12 comments3 min readLW link

The Pareto Best and the Curse of Doom

Screwtape21 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC
112 points
21 comments9 min readLW link

In the Pareto world, liars prosper

Stuart_Armstrong8 Dec 2011 14:15 UTC
28 points
33 comments2 min readLW link

Pareto im­prove­ments are rarer than they seem

philh27 Jan 2018 22:23 UTC
29 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(reasonableapproximation.net)

Dath Ilan vs. Sid Meier’s Alpha Cen­tauri: Pareto Improvements

David Udell28 Apr 2022 19:26 UTC
35 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Deriv­ing Con­di­tional Ex­pected Utility from Pareto-Effi­cient Decisions

Thomas Kwa5 May 2022 3:21 UTC
24 points
1 comment6 min readLW link

Reflex­ive Or­a­cles and su­per­ra­tional­ity: Pareto

Stuart_Armstrong24 May 2017 8:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] If in­di­vi­d­ual perfor­mance is Pareto dis­tributed, how should we re­form ed­u­ca­tion?

yhoiseth24 May 2021 12:22 UTC
27 points
26 comments2 min readLW link

Eva­po­ra­tion of improvements

Viliam20 Jun 2024 18:34 UTC
28 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

Pre­dicted cor­rigi­bil­ity: pareto improvements

Stuart_Armstrong18 Aug 2015 11:02 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
No comments.