Robert Wright
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595 appearances
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1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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It just means putting yourself in in other people's shoes, doing your best to understand their perspective.
Which by the way
Uh LLM's turn out to be surprisingly good at, and that's an interesting thing in its own right.
But um the uh yeah, I I've long felt that this is the most uh
One of the most destructive cognitive deficiencies.
Uh because there are uh you know, there are specific cognitive biases that I think actually selectively impede it.
One is called attribution error in the fullest sense of that, not the original sense, but uh I won't I won't go into that now.
But uh I just think um
you know, cognitive empathy is so important that we shouldn't have slurs that are directed at people and they say, Well, you know the way Putin is looking at this, or, you know, I wanted to go have this conversation with this person in China.
Or, you know,
Um, so but but my concern is that, you know, and and again, I I'm older than you.
I lived through the first cold war.
Not the I'm I'm not so old that I remember how it started, but yeah, I remember, you know, being in the middle of it.
You know, my my uh
Uh my father was a uh at the I was you know at the Pentagon during the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was like, you know, living two miles from the Pentagon.
So that got my attention, even though I was six years old.
Um
Uh, 'cause I don't think the Pentagon would have done fared very well in a nuclear war.
Um
And uh, you know, you just see the it gets worse and worse and worse.
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