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79 Post author: Yvain 21 July 2009 04:04AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 06:51:09PM 11 points [-]

minus infinity meant that on one question you could fail the class

...wow. Well, I guess that's one way to teach people to avoid infinite certainty. Reminiscent of Jeffreyssai. Did that happen to a lot of students?

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 21 July 2009 10:45:12PM 4 points [-]

Given that this was stated as used in "decision analysis" and "probabilistic analysis" courses I would hope not...

It's rare that one has a chance to make the structure of an exam itself teach the material, independent of the content, heh.