Manolis Kellis

That's a great idea.

Instead of that was a bunch of BS, you're like, you're sort of hitting on the brakes and you're trying to push back against that.

Any kind of criticism that comes after that is very difficult to interpret in a positive way because it helps reinforce the negative assessment of your work.

When in fact, if we disconnected the technical component from the negative assessment, then you're embracing the technical component, you're gonna fix it.

Whereas if it's coupled with, and if that thing is real and I'm right about your mistake, then it's a bunch of BS.

Then suddenly you're like, you're going to try to prove that that mistake does not exist.

Again, when it comes to understanding each other, like for example, I don't know what it's like to go through life with a different skin color.

I don't know how people will perceive me.

I don't know how people will respond to me.

We don't often have that experience.

But in a virtual reality environment or in a sort of AI interactive system, you could basically say, okay, now make me Chinese or make me South African or make me Nigerian.

You can change the accent.

You can change layers of...

that contextual information and then see how the information is interpreted.

And you can re-hear yourself through a different angle.

You can hear others.

You can have others react to you from a different package.

And then hopefully we can sort of build empathy by learning to disconnect all of these social cues that we get from like how a person is dressed.

If they're wearing a hoodie or if they're wearing a shirt or if they're wearing a jacket, you get very different emotional responses that I wish we could overcome as humans and perhaps large language models and augmented reality and deep fakes.

can kind of help us overcome all that.