<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">rafal wrote: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">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.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I would not discount hugs. Touching is very special to humans.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think it is an interesting evolution question why we care about those near to us and very little far away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> - </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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?)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:28 AM Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 6:57 AM Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 6:11 AM Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>### 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".</div></div></div><br>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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")</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### 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.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>
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