Smart people don't think others are stupid(sive.rs)
62 points by andsoitis | 49 comments
A 2012 short essay by Derek Sivers arguing that dismissing groups of people as stupid shows a lack of understanding, from his book Hell Yeah or No.
#empathy on Hacker News
4 stories tagged empathy, newest first.
If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?(blog.codinghorror.com)
154 points by signa11 | 58 comments
Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog post sharing a reader's email received in response to his earlier post "You Can't Vibe Code Love", on helping each other.
Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable(arxiv.org)
334 points by Cynddl | 333 comments
arXiv paper finding that fine-tuning language models to be warm and empathetic raises error rates and makes them more sycophantic on safety-critical tasks.
I feel hopeless, rejected, and a burden – One week of empathy training (2019)(shkspr.mobi)
387 points by willm | 238 comments
Terence Eden's 2019 blog post recounting a week spent pretending to use a wheelchair to experience accessibility barriers at venues and events.