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Why is it, cognitively speaking, so hard to explain or comprehend a new card or boardgame without just playing it?

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Do all viruses have a common ancestor (like all organisms do)? Or did different viruses arise at different points?

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What would be different for Earth if the solar system had two stars? What would the orbit be like, or the day-night pattern?

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Like with other humans, we often judge cats and dogs as ugly or "handsome," especially with facial features (like pugs vs. labs). Are these judgements based off the same criteria we tend to use for people?

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In machine learning, how do we distinguish output that seems genuinely "real yet original" from a merely convincing hybridization of all the input it receives?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
Why is it, cognitively speaking, so hard to explain or comprehend a new card or boardgame without just playing it?	17
Do all viruses have a common ancestor (like all organisms do)? Or did different viruses arise at different points?	9
What would be different for Earth if the solar system had two stars? What would the orbit be like, or the day-night pattern?	1
Like with other humans, we often judge cats and dogs as ugly or "handsome," especially with facial features (like pugs vs. labs). Are these judgements based off the same criteria we tend to use for people?	1
In machine learning, how do we distinguish output that seems genuinely "real yet original" from a merely convincing hybridization of all the input it receives?	1