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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How does electricity "know" what is the path of least resistance?
gpt
Because it isn't resisted.

Think of trying to move through a crowd. You can try to push past the 300lb biker with LOVE tattooed across the knuckles of one hand and HATE across the other; or you could slip past the 22 year old hipster kid who weighs less than 100lbs because he eats exclusively lentils and kale. One of these options is much easier than the other, and you can tell simply by trying both.

So, of course, you're going to end up going past the biker because he isn't going to lecture you about GMOs and the beef industry.