grouchymusicologist comments on Dead Child Currency - Less Wrong

14 Post author: jkaufman 09 January 2012 06:46PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 09 January 2012 08:15:54PM 5 points [-]

Do you really do this?

Yes.

They find it amusing. We then continue to discuss opportunity costs.

Comment author: grouchymusicologist 09 January 2012 08:22:01PM 6 points [-]

Interesting. I could imagine some students reacting very, very negatively to being invited to consider every act of consumption in such ... moral terms.

Comment author: gwern 09 January 2012 09:05:55PM *  8 points [-]

My own reaction was to wonder 'gosh, I hope he doesn't do only the females and their jewelry...'

Comment author: James_Miller 09 January 2012 09:23:10PM 8 points [-]

I teach at a women's college.

Comment author: atorm 09 January 2012 08:30:36PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I'm surprised that didn't turn into screaming or tears, or at least a dropped class.

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