see also:
empathy is the taking on of another’s perspective
empathy is how we build our world model
when we improve our empathy, we improve our ability to predict behaviors in the world
this is of course, only one of many mechanisms for fitting the world model. clearly, there are agents who are “epathetically” challenged who are highly manipulative…
you know what? I actually take that back. “Psychopaths” are actually extremely empathetic. They’re not sympathetic. I think? Or maybe I have that backwards. I’m challenged trying to think about what it might mean for someone to be good at predicting and manipulating others, but