Well, that's just creepy as fuck

I think they need to make it bigger, because folks still come down Cedar way too fast.

Douglas Adams: I created a satirical thing called Genuine People Personalities for the robots in books, so a door can tell you how happy it is to open for you

Amazon: We have implemented Genuine People Personalities, so a door can tell you how happy it is to open for you

Bird version:

Peregrine Falcon
Acorn Woodpecker
Little bee-eater
Black-mandibled Toucan
Roseate Spoonbill (the bane of @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social)

This list was hard to do. I have seen many, many birds.

Many people, esp. in management, don’t want new ideas, they want you to magically make old and familiar ideas feel new again. They want to experience the feeling of novelty and surprise again, but only the exact feeling they’ve already had with one specific piece of bullshit nostalgia.

Seriously. To get worse than Trump, you almost have to start looking at fictional villains. Even then, you have to go pretty low. Even The Joker has a moment or two where he's not the shittiest person in the room.

On the social-political front, I feel the thin/thick empathy may describe performative actions of support or aid that lack substance. So, "support for a cause" as an expression of thin empathy: I have knowledge-that, but lack knowledge-of. My solidarity is limited by the depth of my empathy.

Yes, exactly that. As @mjcrockett.bsky.social points out, there are limits on how much thick empathy can be built, and I suspect we often fool ourselves about how thick we have been able to get in design thinking. But even be aware of the model helps.

There's a push to use LLM-based simulated subjects for research work. This is likely sub-optimal, e.g., model bias, or a poor fit with real world subjects.

Now, I might say that such uses are built on dual thin empathy. Neither the researcher nor the "subject" have any knowledge-how.

My immediate thoughts were around UX research techniques and the difficulty of truly understanding the people we design for, and social and political systems and how building connections often requires direct experience of other's circumstances.

Wow.

Training that results in knowing less about how both brains and models work than when you started it.