Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoDid you stop reading the rest of the post when you saw that? Because it really looks like you did.
Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoDid you stop reading the rest of the post when you saw that? Because it really looks like you did.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Sure didn’t.
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
You didn’t stop reading? Then it’s a bit weird that you’d think I don’t know autistic people have empathy, unless you decided to arbitrarily take the most bad faith reading you could’ve done. If that’s the case, I recommend taking breathers before posting so that you don’t do that.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
It’s a bit weird that you think that I think that, and not that I was suggesting that no one else needs it explained to them either.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Dude, you're just being a contrarian dick
LukeZaz@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
You’d hope so! But alas, some idiots exist. And when a title like this appears, it becomes difficult to tell if such an idiot wrote it at first glance, and more to point, a title like that tends to create more idiots (and it’s also just kinda offensive). That’s why it’s important not to write headlines like this.
Sidenote: If you want people to not take things personally, avoid personal pronouns. “Is that something that you need explained?” → “Is that something that people need explained?” It makes a world of difference and I’m confident I’ve avoided several arguments that could’ve spawned from my own posts thanks to making that kind of change. Not foolproof, sure – we are on the internet – but it helps.