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Emotions exist because a charging bear demands a response more flexible than a reflex and faster than a plan.
Holds RARalph Adolphs
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Functionally defined emotions can be attributed to animals and, to some extent, to AI systems, without any claim about what either of them feels.
Holds RARalph Adolphs
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An emotion is a fan-in, fan-out architecture: many different signals converge on one central state, out of which many different behaviours can follow.
Holds RARalph Adolphs
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One good story outweighs a mountain of evidence, because most emotions cannot be argued with.
Holds DSDerek Sivers
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Cold exposure trains autonomic regulation that generalises, so that an everyday provocation stops producing an anger response at all.
Holds RARalph Adolphs
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You do not need a word for an emotion in order to regulate it: a concept you cannot put into language still gives you purchase on it.
Holds RARalph Adolphs
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Being big pays off every day and is punished in extinctions, which is why body size keeps getting reset rather than climbing forever.
Holds DHDave Hone
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To reward the instinct that a new idea is worth having, training would have to score the smallness of the concepts a solution needs, not just whether it solved the problem.
Holds GSGrant Sanderson
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Empathy, body language and tone of voice are learnable skills, and expecting the world to adapt to how you are wired is not going to work.
Holds KBKent Beck