Most people can feel the wrongness of things, either by thinking beforehand and they can know it without doing it, or they need to do it in order to know it. I didn't need to do autovoting to know it's bad for the intention of social media and evaluating content, nor did I need to do follow4follow or vote4vote when I got here. I already knew they were not optimal behavioral models, and I didn't need to do it. I wanted to mention that because of your previous comment int he other post ;) You don't need to do and experience things to really know if they are optimal, better or right to do. That's a fallacy. Consciousness is powerful, we can avoid doing things because we have the foresight and providence to see what it will do, without doing it.
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I disagree to a certain point here. Yes you are right I knew beforehand I did upvote 4 upvote or follow 4 follow this was not really the way, my greed got the better of me.
The emotional and intellectual understanding/ intelligence I have learned about on a Vipassana retreat. I mgiht used it wrong or a bad example. They used it as an example for the meditation. On an intellectual level you might understand meditation is good for you on an emotinal level you have to learn it since meditating for 12 hours a day doesnt feel very good at first.
But it was the first thing which came to my mind when I read your article.