On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:44 PM Alok Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> What you have said is unobjectionable, though I am not entirely sure if you > are making an argument or stating a tautology. I was trying to say that however much one might believe (rightly or wrongly) that one has empathy, the act of perspective taking shifts things from a domain of belief to practice. I do not have anything productive to add to this thread and I am afraid I might end up repeating myself. Thaths > I understood it as > - empathy is a skill that can be developed > - local maxima are not Truth > > The mental processes that underpin empathy are the ones I use to manipulate > or otherwise "convince" someone of something. I see it as a mechanism that > can used to various ends my myself or by others on me. Something like > hunger or lust. So in this sense, I do not see it as a skill that can be > improved by practice. > > Lastly, local maxima are all we have. I see this as a consquence of Arrow's > impossibility theorem. One can move from one to the other and I can't tell > if this is in anyway different than if I never change. > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
