Welcome to Infinite-Empathy.com

What is Your Mission?

Our mission is to scale up access to resources that accelerate healing, growth, connection, and empowerment through making skillful needs-based-empathy translations widely accessible and inexpensive.

How Does Sign Up Work?

We are currently in alpha testing stage. We open the platform up to new users every week who have signed up on our Waiting List.

How Much Does It Cost?

We are still working out a sustainable pricing model. We imagine the basic tier will be something around $10-$20 a month for unlimited empathy translations on the platform and all other related basic services.

We will have a pro tier that will be around $20-30 a month that will involve features that require multiple OpenAI queries to generate. This will include things like automatically deepening empathy guesses, and generating a personalized "Actualization Plan" for you that applies all of the actualizers.

The pro tier will also be designed with coaches and therapists and their clients in mind. We may create a coach/therapist special tier that gives unique support to those in those roles. We look forward to your feedback about what would be most useful to you.

It is against our philosophy to allow advertising to be a part of the platform. As such, we are not planning to have a free tier, but rather a free trial period of a week or so to see if the platform is a good fit for you.

We also want the basic services on the platform to be within the financial means of the vast majority of people who would want to use it.

What is an Empathic Translation

It is simply translating every single statement into the potential feelings and needs that may be underneath the thought. Since feelings and needs attempt to touch what is probably universally shared, it helps us pierce through limiting stories and remember our fundamental human experience.

This style of translation was developed by Marshall Rosenberg and is strongly associated with "Nonviolent Communication" or "NVC".

Is Empathic Translation All This Does?

No. We have a lot of ideas for how this tool can be used, and those features will be developed in time, but empathic translation is usually the first step in to figuring out what is going on inside of us, and is therefore the core of the platform.

Also, even if this was all it did, consistent empathy is extremely powerful.

How Can I Get The Most Value From This?

I look forward to hearing from you about that too, but I encourage you to look at it as a dialog with the life moving through you. You can either reflect deeply before you speak or just vent. Then sit back and see what might be underneath with the empathy guess. If something doesn't resonate with you, just let it know and it will try again. If you feel like it's not getting you, give yourself a moment to check inside and see what is even more true. Then rephrase what you said and try again.

We will be incorporating guided practices in the future such as:

• Connecting with the beauty and fullness of your longing without feeling any lack.
• Increasing body awareness and tolerance of pleasurable and painful sensations without attachment or aversion.
• Understanding what is underneath your beliefs and ideas and updating them on the basis of all of what matters to you.
• Generating insights from a series of empathic translations
• Generating many inernal, relational, and external ways to meet your needs
• Empathizing with actions, perspectives, or behaviors that are difficult to understand or stimulate you
• Role playing a perspective that is difficult for you to empathize with and receiving empathic insight about that.

And many more...

Will this chatbot hallucinate or give me crazy output?

Probably not. One of the things that makes this chatbot different is that it is severely constrained in terms of what output is allowable. This happens at the "system" level, not the "prompt" level, so it is very difficult to get anything other than a feeling or need.

If you ask it how to make a bomb it will empathize with you - thinking that you are curious and wanting to explore new subjects.

Most of the apps I am looking to develop have this same pattern so that hallucinations or unwanted output is simply not likely.

How Often is the platform updated with features?

Usually every couple of weeks at this beta stage.

What Features Are You Planning To Make?

We have a ton of plans for this platform and related platforms.

Right now we have 3 major categories of features we are planning to add:

Practices

- These are things that you can apply empathy to such as empathizing with judgements, thoughts, differences you don't understand, celebrations, mournings, beliefs, and more.

Deepeners

- These are ways you can deepen and mature your practice, overcoming common pitfalls or misunderstandings on the path. This includes practices such as looking at needs through the lens of abundance instead of lack, staying connected to the body, cultivating trust in the ability to meet needs, etc.

Actualizers

- These are ways you can glean insights on how to take what arose in empathic reflection and manifest it in your life, relationships, and the world. These practices include things like generating strategies, habits, beliefs, action plans, and more to bring meet these needs in your life.

Down the road

We'd also like to add voice avatars to increase connection and improve accessibility. This will likely be an add-on at a higher price tier

We are also planning to make the platform profoundly useful for coaches and therapists. These features would certainly be opt-in features and would be available at a higher tier of membership.

This is the very first step in an evolving suite of applications. However, this is a value driven project and there is nothing that will make me deviate from the core values in the philosophy page.

So Infinite Empathy is about a lot more than empathy and isn't limited to the NVC process?

That's right. We use NVC based empathy as the first phase of a much deeper and more involved process. The empathy is there to arrive into where we are and touch the deeper truth of what is arising for us, and from this foundation, we use best-practices from many different domains of psychology, personal development, and neuroscience to improve our lives. actualize in our lives.

Can I use Infinite Empathy in a professional setting, such as counseling or therapy?

We imagine that this platform will be very useful for both mental health professionals and clients. However, to keep human connection at the center, we do not encourage using the platform DURING sessions, but rather, before or after sessions for additional insight. Even if augmented reality gets good enough to use concurrently alongisde therapy, we still believe that the human connection is an irreplacable aspect of the healing process and should not be mediated by technology.

Coaches and therapists can use this to help understand what their clients might be feeling and needing. This can assist their process and help them to be more effective, while also can help them build these empathic skills themselves.

On the other hand, clients can use this to help them understand themselves better, and to help them communicate more effectively with their coach or therapist. This can make the sessions that are in person much more powerful.

What's the difference between human empathy and chatbot empathy?

Human empathy is a magical experience where we feel "felt" and understood by another conscious being. There is something irreplacable about the conscious witnessing of another consciousness. As of now, chatbots are not conscious and therefore there is something that chatbots can't do.

On the other hand, humans are profoundly limited in terms of how many, how often, and how skillful empathic connection is. It is very difficult to sustain a high level of empathy without biases, projections, or simple human tiredness creeping in. This is where chatbots can be useful. They can provide a safe space to explore your feelings and needs without the fear of being judged or misunderstood.

Like everything, there are pros and cons to each approach.

Can I Interact With Other Users

As of now, research suggests that humans are not at their best when they interact in online spaces. For this reason, we do not plan on adding any features that allow you to interact with other users and we encourage users to meet their needs for human connection through non-technological means to preserve this deep evolutionary need we have for interpersonal connection. This is a space for you to connect with yourself and your own needs. We do not want to distract from that core mission.

Is Usage Data Collected?

Usage data is not collected. There are metrics associated with any website like how many people are visiting, but we don't track your behavior. We aren't interested in that direction.

Are My Conversations or Insights Saved?

If you decide you want to opt-in to use the profile features (saving your conversations, saving your insights, saving your belief updates, etc.) this will be stored in an encrypted database that no one can read except the loggerd in user.

Anonymity and Privacy are top priorities for us. This is because people do not tend to share themselves authentically, deeply, and honestly when they feel what they share will be used for some other purpose. To not protect your sense of safety and privacy would be a violation of the very core of what this service is about.

What about OpenAI?

Since all of these requests do go through OpenAI's ChatGPT API, they do have access to the prompts themselves, but as far as I can tell, since my server is making the requests, they cannot trace these back to you, as no identifying information is sent to them, just the prompt. It appears to be coming from my website's servers, not from you. We don't send any identifying information to OpenAI except the message which is translated itself.

If I opt-in is the data encrypted on the server?

Yes, Nobody will be able to read the information in the database except you. While I have attempted to make security concerns a high priority (most sites get an F on Mozilla's security scan, whereas we currently have a B), motivated hackers can get into just about anything. Since data breaches are becoming as common as water, we suggest you create an account under a alternate email address as an extra precaution to not have content linked to you.

Who Made This thing?

Infinite Empathy is a project by Thomas Meli, a long-term practitioner of compassionate communication, entrepreneur, education innovator, and software developer.

Over the years, he has completed over 500+ hours of specialized training in this transformative approach. Through this journey, he has gained a profound understanding of how powerful empathy can be in easing the inevitable challenges of life and removing unnecessary suffering.

Through Infinite-Empathy.com, Thomas Meli combines his experience and training with the power of AI to create a nurturing online space where individuals can experience all the empathy they need. The hope is that this makes it easier for all of us to live in alignment with our values while increasingly radiating kindness and clarity in our relations.