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DanArmak comments on Putanumonit - Discarding empathy to save the world - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Jacobian 06 October 2016 07:03AM

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Comment author: username2 06 October 2016 09:31:39PM 1 point [-]

I think this article is something that people outside of this community really ought to read.

Interesting. Why people outside of this community? I find it is actually the LW and EA communities that place an exorbitant amount of emphasis on empathy. Most of those I know outside of the rationalist community understand the healthy tradeoff between charitable action and looking out for oneself.

Comment author: DanArmak 06 October 2016 11:15:54PM 0 points [-]

This doesn't entirely match my impression of the LW community. (I know much less about the non-LW EA community.) What are you basing this on? Were there major LW posts about empathy, or LW Survey questions, or something else?