[extropy-chat] Fwd: CNN features amazing user with autism

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Anne Corwin wrote:
> You'd almost have to already be a psychopath to want to be a psychopath, 
> since that personality type is one focused almost entirely on desiring 
> to manipulate and use others toward their own ends with no regard for 
> the personhood of those others.  I don't know if there's such a thing as 
> a true psychopath that wishes they weren't one, since if you're already 
> completely lacking in empathy and compassion, what could motivate you to 
> wish for the ability to feel empathy or compassion?

If you started out otherwise human?  Maybe because you got tired of the 
way other people were looking at you with horror in their eyes.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence