A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
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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.
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).