I call this "noticing confusion" (by way of @ESYudkowsky) and it's probably sufficient to be a singular hallmark of interesting people. The superpower comes from playing with what anomalies suggest about the explanations that fail to predict themhttps://twitter.com/paulg/status/1147505767039287296 …
It seems to me that the injury risk explanation would be stronger if it were true that sharks very rarely bit humans, but upon biting continued to feed unless deterred by an attack in response. But it's hard to say unless you know where the selection pressure comes from
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It could be that bite is to get taste, shark expects a known taste. But when it tastes something unfamiliar is confused/cautious. Maybe sharks map our taste onto the closest familiar taste, i.e. marine mammals, plus large-ish size => dolphins, not safe to eat?
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