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That's a stereotype and probably not true. Many deep thinkers are humanists. It's probably more likely around the hyper rational types, but my boss is the most

That's a stereotype and probably not true. Many deep thinkers are humanists. It's probably more likely around the hyper rational types, but my boss is the most empathetic engineer I've ever worked for. This is anecdotal but your comment seems fairly clearly overbroad

lynx23 3y ago
I've seen the stereotype confirmed on HN several times already. Whenever I, a blind pedestrian, voice my concerns about driverless car technology, I am being downvoted and outright critizised. The undertone is "How can this single person try to block an emerging technology". That pretty much confirms the statement that tech people sometimes have a hard time with human concerns.
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- yungporko 3y ago
  i think it just confirms that in any given group of people, a majority percentage of them will be self absorbed dickheads.
  - suoduandao3 3y ago
    I don't think it's always necessarily a majority - it's just always going to be more than we estimate.
- 0xBDB 3y ago
  I am empathetic to your concerns but I may or may not agree with your proposed solutions. I do think it's always important to keep in mind that empathy and compassion aren't the same thing, or always aligned. Compassion is more utilitarian. Driverless cars will save a lot of lives when the technology is good enough, and the compassionate thing is implementing the technology when it saves more lives than it endangers. If that's the non-empathy you are getting from the HN community then the community is right, but again, I genuinely empathize even so.
ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
> Many deep thinkers are humanists. That's the deal, though. Engineers and scientists don't have a monopoly on "deep thinker™". My sister is a "deep thinker." She has an economics degree from Princeton, and has been working at very high levels, for decades. Very decent human being. Not sure if she'd be interested in being a "leader," though. That's part of the problem; it's almost as if wanting the job, automatically disqualifies you. But you are right. It's an overbroad statement.

lynx23 3y ago

I've seen the stereotype confirmed on HN several times already. Whenever I, a blind pedestrian, voice my concerns about driverless car technology, I am being downvoted and outright critizised. The undertone is "How can this single person try to block an emerging technology". That pretty much confirms the statement that tech people sometimes have a hard time with human concerns.

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yungporko 3y ago
i think it just confirms that in any given group of people, a majority percentage of them will be self absorbed dickheads.
- suoduandao3 3y ago
  I don't think it's always necessarily a majority - it's just always going to be more than we estimate.
0xBDB 3y ago
I am empathetic to your concerns but I may or may not agree with your proposed solutions. I do think it's always important to keep in mind that empathy and compassion aren't the same thing, or always aligned. Compassion is more utilitarian. Driverless cars will save a lot of lives when the technology is good enough, and the compassionate thing is implementing the technology when it saves more lives than it endangers. If that's the non-empathy you are getting from the HN community then the community is right, but again, I genuinely empathize even so.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

> Many deep thinkers are humanists. That's the deal, though. Engineers and scientists don't have a monopoly on "deep thinker™". My sister is a "deep thinker." She has an economics degree from Princeton, and has been working at very high levels, for decades. Very decent human being. Not sure if she'd be interested in being a "leader," though. That's part of the problem; it's almost as if wanting the job, automatically disqualifies you. But you are right. It's an overbroad statement.