Mini Blog Post 14: Minds should make sense — Neel Nanda
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A concrete, actionable approach to being more empathetic and better at communicating
(The structure of this post is experimental - please let me know whether you think this works well! The process I use approximately follows this framework, and it might be helpful to read that first) I think a really key life skill is the skill of empathy: understanding other people’s internal experiences and why they act the way that they do. This is visibly a thing that most people are bad at, because empathy is hard. As with all important things, empathy can and should be optimised for. My goal in this post is to outline how I’ve gotten better at a specific form of empathy, a skill I…
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