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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9108229" data-attributes="member: 23751">No. You can feel like someone is kinder than another, but what you value as kindness might not be what I value as kindness, or perhaps we both value it but with different value amounts.  Further, it may be that the person you view as kinder is really just doing it to impress the boss in order to get a promotion, but the one you see as less kind is doing it because it's the kind thing to do.And that's all before you get into different views on what kindness is.  Someone could be in great, great pain and one person would view it as a kindness to put the person out of his misery, while another would view it as a kindness to try and get the person help, even though the person is going to suffer a great deal more pain and may never recover at all.We don't even understand exactly what intelligence is.  [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.engadget.com/2016-08-15-technological-singularity-problems-brain-mind.html[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/10/harvard-psychologist-types-of-intelligence-where-do-you-score-highest-in.html[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3pezm/scientists-increasingly-cant-explain-how-ai-works[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=365543&page=1[/URL]The butterfly effect.  The person looking at the butterfly isn't seeing the hurricane it's triggering, but he can see a guy save a woman down the street and think that the guy is influencing events more by saving one person, while not seeing the dozens of damaged homes and lost lives the butterfly's hurricane has cost.We can also have different opinions on what influence is, how influential certain types are, etc.</blockquote>

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