A quotation (probably) from Hannah Arendt
The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
(Attributed)
More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/82785/
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People with mental illness don't pretend to be depressed. They pretend to be happy. Remember that. Be kind.
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I wrote an essay about empathic AI and the design gap between social cues for engagement and real empathy from conversational AI.
I dig through recent HCI research on the topic and collected my thoughts and a proposal how we can start designin conversational AI with human centred methods.
Has someone you love ever been in serious pain, and you felt completely helpless watching them? I've been there. Here's what I wish I had understood sooner — and three practical ways to show up when you can't take the pain away.
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https://www.originalmacguy.com/what-to-do-when-someone-you-love-is-hurting/
"By reflexively scrolling, seeing but not absorbing, so many of us have been dulled by the sheer glut of life. As well as the flood of takes, shit-posting, AI slop fake footage and a million talking heads and podcasters on YouTube and streaming sites.
I have lost track of the number of “breaking news” posts and videos on the war on social media that upon closer inspection were entirely made up by authoritative-looking accounts farming for engagement. When the true and false jostle constantly in the content slipstream, nothing feels real.
....It is enormously difficult amid such swirling forces to hold on to a sense of empathy, to follow a moral compass, to understand that thousands of innocent people are dying, their homes destroyed, their nations destabilised for a generation."
This is not a side effect but by design as well as a war on the country and people of Iran this is a war on empathy.
We are not the picture that was painted, the image that was sold, the misunderstandings that became codified.
We are empathetic, we are creative, we are moral and ethical (often uncompromisingly so), and we can be happy.
Found via @oscarjiminy
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