Andrew McCluskey

the idea of empathy itself only dates to the late eighteenth century. The notion was invented by psycho-physiologist Wilhelm Wundt to describe our ability to experience another’s experience, and different, Wundt thought, from sympathy and compassion. Empathy is about the transmission of information; sympathy and compassion are reactions to that

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It's just different flavors of how human values, such as dignity and decency, lose out once they are pulled down to the arena of the market—Marx's crippled monstrosity.

“Technical and data skills that have been highly sought after for decades appear to be among the most exposed to advances in artificial intelligence.” They found that AI will replace 96% of a software engineer’s current skills.

What did these researchers find to be the most durable skills for the next era of work? The ones we’ve long derided as... See more