Apparently, even real frogs will jump out of slowly heated water.
That is from Robin Hanson. You are not encouraged to experiment at home.
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I think I can provide a real-life datapoint here – back in my days as a boy scout, I was making soup out in the open when another guy threw a frog he had found at me. It landed in the boiling soup, literally speaking, and contrary to the common boiled frog metaphor, did not make it out again, at least not alive.
The soup didn’t make it, either.
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