“And when the time is to act, [w]e need to combine systematizing reasoning with compassion. We don’t need to make emotionally-charged calls to action sparked by individual incidents that affect a specially small number of sentient beings in particularly attention-grabbing ways. [O]nly by combining compassion, empathy and a strong systematizing style, can our minds grasp the enormity of the problem of suffering and why our local solutions are doomed to fail.”

— Andres Gomez Emilsson, In Praise of Systematizing Empathy (Qualia Computing, April 2016)