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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There Any Importance of Empathy?
Having empathy for the perspective of a large number of other people versus raw mathematical reason? I think it's important, but it only takes you so far, right? It doesn't get you to truth. There is no opposition between selfishness and selflessness because wise selfishness really takes into account other people's happiness. The better word for what I would hope to embody there is compassion,. Like really, you know, to really wish people well,you know, and to really wish, you Know, strangers well effortlessly Wish them well. However much you can guard your good luck in first society, second society is much worse.
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