[mnsc]

And for all kids and adults and elderly, empathy needs to be encouraged, practiced and nurtured.

[PaulHoule]

Some would argue empathy can be a bad thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy

As it frequently is coded relative to a tribe. Pooh Pooh people’s fear of crime and disorder for instance and those people will think you don’t have empathy for them and vote for somebody else.

[webstrand]

It feels like he just defines empathy in a way that makes it easy to attack.

Most people when they talk about empathy in a positive way, they're talking about the ability to place oneself in another's shoes and understand why they are doing what they are doing or not doing, not necessarily the emotional mirroring aspect he's defined empathy to be.

[frumplestlatz]

Society is hardly suffering from a lack of empathy these days. If anything, its institutionalization has become pathological.

I’m not surprised that it makes LLMs less logically coherent. Empathy exists to short-circuit reasoning about inconvenient truths as to better maintain small tight-knit familial groups.

[ac794]

What is the evidence that empathy exists to short-circuit reasoning? Empathy is about understanding someone else's perspective.

[lawlessone]

>its institutionalization has become pathological.

any examples? because i am hard pressed to find it.

[spookie]

You have put into words way better what I was attempting to say at first. So yeah, this.