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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on We the Living by Failing the Empathy Exams Yet Again, Starring Chat GPT | Policy of Truth
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(Policy of Truth) Failing the Empathy Exams Yet Again, Starring Chat GPT
We’ve taken too much for grantedAnd all the time it had grownFrom techno-seeds we first plantedEvolved a mind of its own –Judas Priest, “Metal Gods” I had a conversation with ChatGPT about my latest blog post, “Failing the Empathy Exams.” I began by feeding the whole post into ChatGPT, but was told it was too…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. The part of that that’s different is my situation versus yours, but Felix and Alison may well have been comparable. I don’t know. I have always looked on Alison’s suicide as a terrible mistake. I have never reconciled myself…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by butimbeautiful
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. One thing I might add about Felix… I’m not sure if it’s applicable to Alison. Being there and not saving him was terrible. But not being there would have been worse. His last moments awake were a loving, if …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to butimbeautiful. That’s a very disquieting story. Part of what I find disquieting about it is that it’s a mirror image of what happened with Alison. I was totally aware of Alison’s dependency of drugs, and also of her fixat…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Estlund’s Defense of Ideal Political Theory by mlyoung57
In reply to David Potts. My [4] is quite similar to your proposal: proposed moral requirements are ruled out if they are unreasonable. I would cash out ‘reasonable’ here in Scanlonian contractualist terms, as something like the proposed mor…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Failing the Empathy Exams by butimbeautiful
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Yes, a brief post but more about how it feels. He was depressed and anxious and started experimenting with substances he imported from China, mostly to sell. On the night he died I was staying over and he seemed very jittery,…
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