Huhm, thanks Eliezer, now I start seeing your point. It’s amazing that you can imagine a mind that doens’t run on emotional architectures like our own. I honestly can’t. No matter how hard I try I keep being biased by my own humanity. And yet I’ve lived in very different cultures and in various extremes of human nature.
Doug S.: I don’t agree, I found some autistic people to be far more ‘human’ (or should I say humane) than the average person. If you look for an example of a non-human human, how about Hitler? Serial killers? Rapitsts? They obviously lack some basic human(e) emotions.
Being human and being humane aren’t really in any way connected. Murdering people because they belong to a different group is a perfectly human thing to do.
You stated that some of the autistic people you know are significantly different from most humans. That’s in line with the original content, not a counter-argument to it.
And with that said, I’m not sure I’m happy being in a conversation about how “different” a group of people is from normal people. It’s hard to know how that will be taken by the people involved, and it may not be a nice feeling to read it.
Huhm, thanks Eliezer, now I start seeing your point. It’s amazing that you can imagine a mind that doens’t run on emotional architectures like our own. I honestly can’t. No matter how hard I try I keep being biased by my own humanity. And yet I’ve lived in very different cultures and in various extremes of human nature.
Doug S.: I don’t agree, I found some autistic people to be far more ‘human’ (or should I say humane) than the average person. If you look for an example of a non-human human, how about Hitler? Serial killers? Rapitsts? They obviously lack some basic human(e) emotions.
Being human and being humane aren’t really in any way connected. Murdering people because they belong to a different group is a perfectly human thing to do.
I agree with AlexanderRM.
You stated that some of the autistic people you know are significantly different from most humans. That’s in line with the original content, not a counter-argument to it.
And with that said, I’m not sure I’m happy being in a conversation about how “different” a group of people is from normal people. It’s hard to know how that will be taken by the people involved, and it may not be a nice feeling to read it.