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gambitingyesterday at 7:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

In reality when these experiments were conducted the frog simply jumped out as soon as the temperature started to raise, frogs will not sit there in slowly boiling water and just die without trying to escape way before the water becomes dangerous.


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fwipsyyesterday at 8:52 PM

Yep, in the experiment where they did not, their brains had been removed. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/guest...

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ModernMechyesterday at 7:38 PM

We need to combine the crabs in the bucket with the frogs in the water and I think we'll have the right metaphor.

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adampunkyesterday at 7:41 PM

Well, it works with humans just fine.

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