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Long-term partnership and attraction are two different things, almost opposites.

Security is not a joke. But to be fair, devastating bugs in code existed long before AI, and they killed large companies and businesses before. This has been the risk with software since the beginning. It's nothing new.

Is curiosity an issue?

Yes, but this just evades the question. It doesn't answer it. Non-duality is a great system of thinking in many areas. But it shouldn't be used to bypass deeply existential and philosophical questions. Something is clearly happening. It's not nothing.

There's a certain amount of stress and challenge that is healthy and ideal for growth. It's different for different people, but it's there. Too little makes you soft, and too much makes you hard. As a child, you want constant doses of mild to moderate stress and challenges. This build resilience and strength to handle more difficult situations as an adult.

It looks like there aren't real people with real lives anymore. Life of the ghosts. Everyone is glued to their phones, sucked into another world in another dimension, here but somewhere else, somehow. Obsessed with their online image, carefully crafting illusion after illusion, without any regards to their self-image. Chasing dopamine hits endlessly, until they're numb, so they increase the dose, and get even more numb. Elaborate games of manipulation, of deception of oneself and others. Losing everyone in the process. Fear is running the show. Deep insecurities. Increasingly so. Shallow and hollow. No depth, no reality underneath. Empty shells, perhaps attractive to the onlooker, but deeply disappointing where it matters. Deeply boring, too. Are people capable of genuine connection anymore? Are they even alive?! Prison of a different kind.

The idea of this thread is that the doing itself is a manifestation of understanding and that it's enough proof of it. Whatever you can do, is something you actually understand, on some level. The ability to do something is a testimony of your understanding. Some people seem to disagree with this, but it's clear to me that it's true. It doesn't make logical sense, but it makes intuitive sense. It doesn't apply to everything in the universe equally, but it certainly does apply to some things. You can understand driving a car without learning how a car engine works. You don't need that knowledge to understand the act of driving. Once you're able to drive, you've understood driving, in whatever narrow sense that may be. The counter argument to this claim is that there's not much conscious conceptualization going on in learning how to drive a car. It's mostly subconscious. So it doesn't qualify as conceptual understanding. But that would be comparing apples with oranges. Because conceptual understanding is a field, and intuitive understanding is another. Both has advantages and limits, but they are not opposites. They complement each other. And that's what most people who disagree are probably missing. The more you learn about something, the more you understand it. And the more you practice it, the more you understand it too. I think it's nearly impossible to disagree with this.

True. But I bet they don't understand it.

I don't know about this specific issue, but generally when browsers show unusual behaviour, my first instinct is to do a hard refresh of the page. (Shift + F5)

Exactly! But it looks like this thread is targeted at a specific audience who are supposed to understand it. It's not a discussion. It's a lazy, vague, short, personal lecture.

Don't let it go. Don't you see how far it's gone away?!

Being is definitely one form of understanding (Feminine, instinctive, non-verbal, intuitive, unconscious). The other form is intellect (Masculine, learned, verbal, logical, conscious). Both forms are valid.

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I think we can say birds understand flying instinctively or unconsciously, if that makes sense. Clearly, they don't understand it cognitively or consciously.