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> You know that experiment with the grapes and the chimpanzees? They gave chimpanzees 2 grapes a day for a long time, then gave them 3 grapes (for a week). Then they went back to 2 grapes and the chimps started throwing feces at the researchers.

Yes, humans are creatures of habit, and our mechanism of deciding whether a change is good or bad fundamentally depends on whether the change is better or worse than the current state of affairs.

In other news, water is wet.



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