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sama, my apologies if quoting you is too over the top, but the following comment of yours from last year is just wonderful, and it's a great answer to your ques
by jcr 11y ago
sama, my apologies if quoting you is too over the top, but the following comment of yours from last year is just wonderful, and it's a great answer to your question:
"I think figuring out how technology can encourage empathy is one of the
more interesting and important open research problems in the world right
now." -- Sam Altman, July 10 2015 [1]
There is one group at Stanford that's been working on the empathy-tech problem. I don't know any of them, but I've read a few of their papers. I've submitted a few of their papers/projects to HN in the past six months.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altman_reddit_board_member_and_president/csz2vis https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3cudmx/i_am_sam_altma...
- jostmey 11y agoEmpathy is the glue that holds society together. Our ability to share emotional states with others enables us to forge societies on a large scale.
- jcr 11y agoI sent the following info to someone who emailed me about the comment above: The main site for the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab is here: http://vhil.stanford.edu/ http://vhil.stanford.edu/ Most their papers can be downloaded from the "Publications" page. If you need more lightweight/mainstream news coverage, CBS, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and similar have all done articles on the VHIL work/people. Most of these are available through the VHIL "News" page. I submitted a few of their papers to HN, but they all received little or no discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982928