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Wrong guess, both of you!
It's a specific skill that I have learned to execute pretty much at will.
I also have some of the opposite skill, which turns all of this off.
Since I learned them, my base level seems higher than before, but not in a life-affecting way.
What affects me is, rather, that the wall separating me from this other world is much thinner, and feels much more real somehow.
There has to be some kind of trade-off here between false positives and false negatives here, doesn't there? If you decide to "use that skill" to see more suffering, isn't it likely that you are getting at least some false positives, some cases where you think someone is suffering and they aren't?