What Paul Bloom thinks about humility

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Psychologist at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus at Yale, author of Against Empathy and The Sweet Spot. He writes the newsletter Small Potatoes.

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   Our readingTo understand people unlike us, listening to what they say works better than assuming we know what it is like to be them.

   Their wordsInstead of assuming that we can know what it is like to be them, we can focus more on listening to what they have to say.

   ↗Virtual Reality is a terrible empathy machinesmallpotatoes.paulbloom.net 3rd of 3 in this piece