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Random mermaid
There's now a heat haze on heat sources, so you can better identify the things that will help you in your quest to become toast.

How do you write something so general that it can extrapolate anything from anything? How do you make a machine that can learn infinitely? We humans don't just learn things discretely. We also figure out new things, weird things, and unrelated things from what we've learned all on our own. We wonder. How do you teach a machine to wonder?