What is suicidal empathy？
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Summary
In this episode, I discuss what suicidal empathy is, why it's important, and what it means to me, and why I don't want to live in a world where we debate what constitutes male or female. I also talk about why I think we should have a non-binary person as the next Prime Minister.
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why is it suicidal empathy because it is arguing that in the competing calculus of being empathetic
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to truth and science or being empathetic to marginalized voices always choose celebrating
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the voices of the marginalized people so we may not be able to get the top ai person who suffers
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from the indignity of being a heterosexual white male because what is more important is that we get
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an indigenous non-binary person to fill that position that's what suicidal empathy looks like
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suicidal empathy is precisely the fact that in the year 2026 we are debating what constitutes
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male or female something that i warned about in the canadian senate in 2017 when until 15 minutes
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ago the 117 billion people that had existed on earth were able to fully navigate the very
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confusing conundrum of who is male or female. Your ancestors and mine seemed to know exactly how to
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couple when they wanted to reproduce, but now we no longer have that. That's what suicidal empathy
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does. So the one-two punch of first parasitizing your cognitive system, then parasitizing your
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emotional system, well now I own you in a true Orwellian sense.