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A necessary requirement for higher intelligence is proper, functioning empathy. If you lack this, you're just... Incapable of intelligent thought beyond that of a particularly stupid dog
Humans do generally have proper functioning empathy
dogs, too. such a strange take
I’m guessing this is their meaning. Sounds interesting. Maybe that version of humanity would have far fewer nukes and a lot more good sex.
Sadly, I have a hard time believing this.
The problem is that basic empathy only goes so far. But we [almost] all have it.
CEOs and similar psychopaths don't, though.
(Though those already tend to have the intelligence of a particularly stupid dog anyway, so I don't really see how this would change anything.)
I thought the thing about psychopaths is not that they don't have empathy or that it's something that's completely bizarre and alien to them, but rather that they have a switch where they can turn it off.
Like most of us would recoil in horror at watching a video of somebody being beheaded on the internet and many of us have had that unfortunate experience, but a psychopath has the ability to not feel anything at all about it if they don't want to.
Have to say this wouldn't affect me, not because I don't have any empathy but only cold, logical political solidarity, but also because I wouldn't really class myself as particularly intelligent. I'm just walking here
I feel like we would still have many of the same billionaires if not all