Re: [silk] Empathy

2020-05-21 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 04/05/2020 16:49, Thaths wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 5:39 AM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > >> Empathy isn't easy. >> > > When my (almost invariably economically and socially left-leaning) friends > who are venting about how awful everything (Trump, Biden, Facebook, Fox > News, Amazon, the

Re: [silk] Empathy

2020-05-21 Thread Alok Singh
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 7:11 PM Heather Madrone wrote: > In game theory terms, it's great if everyone cooperates, but you need a > strategy to cope with serial defectors, too. > A few years ago, Dyson and Press published a paper[1] that showed that generosity and extortion are finely balanced

Re: [silk] Empathy

2020-05-21 Thread Heather Madrone
Coming from a different perspective, I'm suffering from empathy fatigue. When you are (usually) empathetic to other people, you (usually) give others the benefit of the doubt, you (usually) try to see things from other people's point of view, you (usually) try to meet people halfway, you can