Glossary
Used alongside empathy to name the problem of how one person perceives or understands another person's emotions.
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theory of mind
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...escalation. Okay, this is a very important idea in my game theory mind. Control is more important than dominance, okay? Control is more important..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...escalation. Okay, this is a very important idea in my game theory mind. Control is more important than dominance, okay? Control is more important..."
Key Notes
Glossary
Jiang's technical label for empathy as perceiving, understanding, accepting, and articulating another person's different viewpoint.
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diagnosis
The standard identity model also fails to explain empathy or theory of mind, meaning how one person can perceive the emotions of others.
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definition
Jiang defines empathy as a theory-of-mind capacity: the ability to perceive, understand, accept, and articulate viewpoints fundamentally different from your own.
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"Or theory of mind. This isn't really theory, but it doesn't really help us explain how empathy works. Right? It doesn't really help us..."
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"...consider, you know, I mean, a technical term is called theory of mind, which basically is the ability to perceive and understand and accept..."
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"...escalation. Okay, this is a very important idea in my game theory mind. Control is more important than dominance, okay? Control is more important..."
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"Then there's the theory of mind more area, which is what I call imaginative empathy or sometime called respective taking or cognitive empathy. So..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s law of escalation: the actor with the biggest weapon can still lose if the weaker actor has calibration, legitimacy, options, and a way to make the bully destroy himself.
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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Jiang begins with a vocabulary problem and turns it into a civilizational one.
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