Tag: empathy
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# How to become wiser ## Seeking perspective What’s another way to look at this? What assumptions am I making right now? How would an objective observer describe what happened? Who is this benefitting and who is it hurting? What would...
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In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very...
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The first is humility. Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and...
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So in the end, AI may need to experience mortality and the pain that goes with it, to have anything to share that we're interested in.
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1. There's more than one way to do something 2. The hate will come at the same rate as the love 3. Do smaller loads of laundry 4. Being vulnerable means taking off our armor 5. Go where the energy goes 6. It's not all about you 7. Expect...
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The fantasy of escape from the needs of other is a fantasy of escape from empathy - and humanity - itself.
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To connect people at the deepest level, you need stories.
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Unlike most of the sciences, astronomy is always done at a distance. You can see the stars, but you can’t do anything about them. Sometimes the media would like us to believe that we’re all astronomers, simply passive witnesses in a world out...
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Be kind, everyone is on their own journey
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Humility amounts to an understanding that the world is not divided into good and bad people, but rather it is made up of all manner of individuals, each broken in their own way, each caught up in the common human struggle and each having the...
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If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. As I’ve grown older I’ve learnt that the world and the people in it are surprisingly interesting, and that the more you look and...