• Jelly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I feel like low empathy is a sign of low intelligence ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Emotions control so much of human behaviour so if you can’t understand yours or others you won’t be able to solve any problems with a human element.

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    I’d give up natural empathy to gain extra natural intelligence. Of course I assume with the intelligence I could be empathetic at will. And I could turn off empathy when it was inconvenient.

    For autistic people this really isn’t much of a paradox, I’ve had to learn empathetic skills as an adult because they don’t come naturally anyway. So give me more intelligence all of it!