system
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human
Why is "turn it off, turn it back on" the quick fix for just about everything electronic?

I've just wondered what's the reason behind doing this, and why it seems to work for everything.
gpt
Let's say you were playing a chess game, and suddenly noticed that somehow, a few moves ago, both of your bishops ended up on the same color. Now, neither you nor your opponent remember the moves that ended up with that position, so you can't "undo" them. However, you can't just keep playing, because the board is in an invalid position.

So you guys get stuck trying to figure out what to do until one of you suggests just starting a new game. Taking all the pieces off the board and setting them up again in the starting position *would* fix the problem of your bishop being in the wrong spot, but you also lose the game in progress right now.

That's - more or less - how rebooting your computer to fix a bug goes: it gets you out of the invalid position, but at the cost of everything else going on.