You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

kalium comments on Mistakes repository - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Dorikka 09 September 2013 03:32AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (192)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: kalium 10 September 2013 02:25:03AM *  1 point [-]
  1. My experience is exactly the reverse of this.

  2. Agree.

  3. Insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Query: do you refer only to empathy for large groups of distant people, or do you also suspect that nerds have less empathy for individuals in their social groups? It is not obvious that these would be related.