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by userbinator 2136 days ago
"cheating" isn't, when it wasn't even taught what the rules were in the first place!

I wonder if there's a similar analogy with how a young kid or someone completely unfamiliar with something can come up with an amazing solution that more experienced people would never think of --- because the latter had "hardened" their thinking to accustomed patterns and didn't go beyond them.