Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Rationality Quotes January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 23 January 2010 08:58:54PM 5 points [-]

The humor of asking the student to compute the derivative is that one imagines the student confidently starting to answer the question, until a dawning horror rises on the student's face as the implications of the answer become evident.