wedrifid comments on US default as a risk to mitigate - Less Wrong Discussion
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You can certainly use the part of the 'empathy' modelling capacity to realise that telling other people what they feel tends to piss people off when you are wrong (and sometimes also when you are right). Failing to adequately account for such likely reactions isn't an inevitability, it is a social skills failure and a fairly blatant one at that.
Most people learn not to do this after embarassing themselves a couple of times when it backfires. (An except is when attempting to deliberately provoke or one-up another ("U mad bro?")).
That's not what I was noticing: telling other people how they feel might surely be a social failure, but not pretending to know how they feel? That seems much harder, since we have evolved to base our social interactions on the ability to guess the emotions of the other members of the pack.