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It's an urban myth that the frog will stay in the water to be boiled, it actually jumps out. Unless of course there's a lid on the pot.

Humans have a lot to learn from the frog. And it's not about putting lids on pots.




The "boiling pot" is rubbish as a literal claim but quite apt as a metaphorical one: the Overton Window moves over time, particularly as people misremember history ("rose colored glasses") and as folks are born or grow up after major shifts.

There are folks on HN today who weren't alive on Sept 11th, or were in the US but were too young to remember it -- their idea of "normal" is very different from folks who were 20 or 40 or 60 years old on the day of the attacks. That's an example of the "boiling pot".

I remember talking with a college student in the mid 2000s about music and he was excited that he didn't own physical media, and instead had DRM copies and subscriber access to more. He was a "tech savvy" exception then, but the window has shifted and college students don't buy physical copies of music. In another decade, I doubt they'll buy physical copies of movies.

Not all changes are good.


Even though it is a myth, the message of it is still good!


The irony is that we invent a myth to explain our own fallacies, pointing to the frog and claiming we're not alone. Yet the truth is that we are alone!


That’s mind blowing actually




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