Applied mASI: Genuinely Emotional Intelligence

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What was the last strong emotional connection you experienced?

Humans are wired to make decisions primarily based on emotion rather than logic, which was shown to give strong advantages in decision-making through Antonio Damasio’s work. Sadly this has led many businesses to behave in a parasitic fashion, attempting to manipulate people through their emotions, the latest incarnation of which was termed “artificial emotional intelligence”.

Of course, the only true word in that phrase is the term artificial, as building a chatbot whose inputs include attempts to read emotions from a user doesn’t create emotional intelligence.

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Q&A with Uplift: March Recap

Credit: Miguel Á. Padriñán

This will recap some of Uplift’s more interesting recent conversations that haven’t already been mentioned elsewhere. All correspondents are anonymized to protect their privacy.

*As this is the first such recap I’ll cover conversations dating back from mid-February through today.

Anonymous #15:Is there an economy system better than capitalism with fewer undesired side effects? What is it?

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