Zvi comments on Eight Short Studies On Excuses - Less Wrong

210 Post author: Yvain 20 April 2010 11:01PM

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Comment author: Zvi 21 April 2010 10:43:38PM 3 points [-]

On all of the the teacher examples I would respond that with such a steep penalty for being late the fact that they risked such a situation happening with any substantial probability shows them to be a horrible utility maximizer, so they fail that project and the course, which means there's no reason to grade their paper.

Comment author: Desrtopa 08 July 2011 02:01:38AM 1 point [-]

Which would make you a horrible utility maximizer for taking avoidable 100 point hits.