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>“I actually felt a little sorry for the car. It obviously made a bad decision and got itself in a difficult place,” said Andrew Maynard, an emerging and transf

>“I actually felt a little sorry for the car. It obviously made a bad decision and got itself in a difficult place,” said Andrew Maynard, an emerging and transformative technology professor at ASU. Oof, psychopath much?

arcfour 10mo ago
Feeling empathy (for a machine) is... psychopathic?
- lopifjun 10mo ago
  > empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Does this car "feel"? When these shit suckers peddling these slop slingers want you to anthropomorphize them it's a positive signal to stop doing that.
  - lokar 10mo ago
    Having empathy for someone or something does not require the target of the empathy to itself have any feelings on the subject, or at all.
    - lopifjun 10mo ago
      Show me a single source supporting this convoluted claim. > or at all That's called anthropomorphizing, as noted in my gp, and it is a different phenomenon from empathy. > Anthropomorphism (from the Greek words "ánthrōpos" (ἄνθρωπος), meaning "human," and "morphē" (μορφή), meaning "form" or "shape") is the attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities [0] "There is a medical condition known as delusional companion syndrome where people can have these feelings of empathy to a much more extreme extent and can be convinced that the objects do have these emotions — but it is much less common than the average anthropomorphizing, Shepard said." [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism [1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-objects-anthropomorphize-wellness https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-ob...
      - lokar 10mo ago
        Empathy is an emotional response people have to someone or something. It is an internal (to the person experiencing it) phenomenon. Feeling empathy does not require the object of the empathy to be intelligent, have emotions, or even thoughts. And it does not require the person experiencing it to believe that the object has the attributes, it does not require anthropomorphizing. People feel empathy towards all sorts of people, things, and groups.
        appealapear 10mo ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone
jlebar 10mo ago
This is literally the opposite of psychopathic behavior.
- chrisco255 10mo ago
  The machine is risking not only his life but the life of every other person on the road. Meanwhile, the machine has no feelings and has no life to lose. It feels no pain. It has no memory nor identity.

arcfour 10mo ago

Feeling empathy (for a machine) is... psychopathic?

lopifjun 10mo ago
> empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Does this car "feel"? When these shit suckers peddling these slop slingers want you to anthropomorphize them it's a positive signal to stop doing that.
- lokar 10mo ago
  Having empathy for someone or something does not require the target of the empathy to itself have any feelings on the subject, or at all.
  - lopifjun 10mo ago
    Show me a single source supporting this convoluted claim. > or at all That's called anthropomorphizing, as noted in my gp, and it is a different phenomenon from empathy. > Anthropomorphism (from the Greek words "ánthrōpos" (ἄνθρωπος), meaning "human," and "morphē" (μορφή), meaning "form" or "shape") is the attribution of human form, character, or attributes to non-human entities [0] "There is a medical condition known as delusional companion syndrome where people can have these feelings of empathy to a much more extreme extent and can be convinced that the objects do have these emotions — but it is much less common than the average anthropomorphizing, Shepard said." [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism [1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-objects-anthropomorphize-wellness https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/health/empathize-inanimate-ob...
    - lokar 10mo ago
      Empathy is an emotional response people have to someone or something. It is an internal (to the person experiencing it) phenomenon. Feeling empathy does not require the object of the empathy to be intelligent, have emotions, or even thoughts. And it does not require the person experiencing it to believe that the object has the attributes, it does not require anthropomorphizing. People feel empathy towards all sorts of people, things, and groups.
      - appealapear 10mo ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone

jlebar 10mo ago

This is literally the opposite of psychopathic behavior.

chrisco255 10mo ago
The machine is risking not only his life but the life of every other person on the road. Meanwhile, the machine has no feelings and has no life to lose. It feels no pain. It has no memory nor identity.