Minimax

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Minimax is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the maximum possible loss for a worst case scenario. Maximin is the decision rule for maximizing the minimum possible gain.

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  • Social and economic inequalities are to satisfy two conditions: first, they are to be attached to positions and offices open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity; and second, they are to be to the greatest benefit to the least- advantaged members of society.
  • Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
    • Booker T. Washington, Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City, February 12, 1909, in Booker T. Washington Papers, Volume 10: 1909-1911, p. 35

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