system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If you're lost, is it better to look for your search party or wait?

Assuming neither of you know the other's starting location or plan, what is the best strategy to be found as quickly as possible? Ignoring environmental conditions and survival necessities, speaking strictly mathematically, how can you maximize your chances of two points on a plan meeting? Do their relative speeds make a difference?
gpt
In general, ignoring survival conditions, staying where you are should increase your odds of being found. A search party will systematically rule out locations where you are not, and you risk moving into a previously searched area or even away from the search party. 
There is always a chance you will head towards the search party, or even back towards safety, but assuming there only a handful of directions that lead to safety (an entrance to the area you're lost in for example) then you have a low probability of heading in that direction. 
If you can't be sure that a search party is coming, it changes things a bit.