[ExI] ai emotions

[William Flynn Wallace]

rafal wrote:  Compassion not supported by cold hard cash is a cheap thing
to offer. Maybe that's why there is so much compassion making the rounds,
without a corresponding amount of problem-solving.

I would not discount hugs.  Touching is very special to humans.
I think it is an interesting evolution question why we care about those
near to us and very little far away.
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I see a lot of advertising of charities, some featuring a whole page of
kids with cleft palates.  I have seen research that strongly suggests that
the charity would reap a lot more money if it were just one kid.  If too
many people are involved, then your little contribution won't really make
any difference.  I think that the charities that let a donor donate
straight to a certain individual and even exchange letters with me do
better than donations made to anonymous people.  Who could resist a Down's
Syndrome kid asking for donations at your front door?  (and why don't
they?) (yes, I know it's now supposed to be Down Syndrome but I don't know
why - are we going to change Alzheimer's disease to Alzheimer disease?
Rafal?)
bill w

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:28 AM Rafal Smigrodzki <
rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:57 AM Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 6:11 AM Rafal Smigrodzki <
>> rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ### The latter is closer to being true, of course, - if you don't have
>>> a lot of money or other useful resources, any goody-goody feelings you may
>>> have don't matter. A bit like "When a tree falls in the forest and nobody
>>> hears it, it doesn't matter if it makes a sound".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> What this thread has proven to me is that some of the smartest people I
>> know do not understand compassion, so the likelihood that "ai emotions"
>> will be any better is small (assuming ai will be "learning" such things
>> from other "smart people")
>>
>> The word is rooted in "co-suffering" and is about experiencing someone's
>> situation as one's own.   Simply sharing "I understand" could be an act of
>> compassion.   Our world is so lacking in this feature that even the
>> commonly understood meaning of the word has been lost. That seems very
>> Newspeak to me.  (smh)
>>
>
> ### Compassion not supported by cold hard cash is a cheap thing to offer.
> Maybe that's why there is so much compassion making the rounds, without a
> corresponding amount of problem-solving.
>
> Rafal
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