[textninja]

> Largely because it's impossible to replicate something when we don't entirely know how it works.

On the contrary. These are mostly orthogonal.

[waboremo]

How do you believe they're orthogonal?

[textninja]

Biological reproduction for one. Copy/paste for another. Biological reproduction is only tenuously related to understanding and copy/paste isn’t even related at all. We can copy around weights and biases all day without understanding them.

[waboremo]

Makes sense, you've changed my mind a bit but only the part that consciously understands.