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These are all legitimate questions which their engineers tend not to be sensitive about, because, again, they can’t quantify it, and it takes kind of an emotional intelligence that they lack — to feel, anticipate, have empathy to understand what the other guy or the government might worry about. - http://anaulin.tumblr.com/post...
What are these things called "empathy" and "emotional intelligence"? - Jim Norris
I'm a Google engineer, so according to Auletta, I am not qualified to answer your question, Jim. - ana from IM
Yes, engineers barely even qualify as humans really. - Paul Buchheit
Yes, for example many engineers lack the ability to collapse others into inaccurate stereotypes of mysterious origin. - j1m
Thinking that worrries are stupid or ill-founded != not anticipating worries. - Ryan Moulton