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Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study

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Re: Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study

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Post by PaulHoule »

delecti wrote: post #9
amelius wrote: post #8

Can humans get traumatic stress disorder from playing VR war games?

I imagine the only limit would be finding a VR game that has enough stress, and playing it for long enough. Most people probably wouldn't willingly play a VR game that stressful for that long.

You can get PTSD working as a rather on offensive content, that’s for sure.

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Post by SiempreViernes »

I bet this is one of those studies where it can turn out the dataset is entirely faked and it wouldn't change a thing in the field because it's such an obvious facet of well known established facts about humans empathising with random objects.

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Post by picadores »

everdrive wrote: post #6

Humans felt empathy for 'pet rocks' -- we just project empathy onto the world sort in the same way that we see faces in things which don't contain faces. Quite a bit of the "normal" interaction that people do is just emotional projection. If two people are on the same wavelength, then it can really feel like you're reading them correctly. Sometimes you are, but sometimes you're just projecting onto them, and they're…

But its very different depending on the person. Some can not feel empathy at all. They still need to navigate this world without exposing themselves, thus they have to emulate empathy by mimicry. Should even be detectable as a delayed response.

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Post by Nasrudith »

amelius wrote: post #8

Can humans get traumatic stress disorder from playing VR war games?

Feeling trapped is part of the trauma of PTSD if I recall correctly. So it should probably be harder to get PTSD from VR war games from being capable to retreat at any moment. I would advise caution about promoting "engagement" in a VR war game specifically to avoid creating feelings of obligations which could leave the player "trapped". Sounds stupid admittedly, but the damage PTSD does can be real.

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Post by everdrive »

picadores wrote: post #16
everdrive wrote: post #6

Humans felt empathy for 'pet rocks' -- we just project empathy onto the world sort in the same way that we see faces in things which don't contain faces. Quite a bit of the "normal" interaction that people do is just emotional projection. If two people are on the same wavelength, then it can really feel like you're reading them correctly. Sometimes you are, but sometimes you're just projecting onto them, and they're…

But its very different depending on the person. Some can not feel empathy at all. They still need to navigate this world without exposing themselves, thus they have to emulate empathy by mimicry. Should even be detectable as a delayed response.

And unfortunately, a lack of empathy is often confused for a lack of care, or a lack of kindness. There's no particular reason the two have to be intertwined. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if you cannot care for someone without feeling empathy towards them, then this represents a deficit.
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