Robot and/or AI based flattery. Imagine people getting
authentic compliments a la Dale Carnegie from robots
that lift their mood n guide them to a more considered
state of being
Or not The idea has a peculiar flavor
The robot says I put those pictures of you up on hot or
not n you are
waaaaay above average
or
College students actually like your blog on Emerson
better than Ginsberg but less than Keats or "anyone lived
in a pretty cow town" which is awesome keep writing
or
People briefly exposed to your photo on a tft screen at a
bus kiosk dilate their pupils n smile slightly You are
visually sociably acceptable
or
We blended your memos with those of others n found
yours are about a third more comprehensible plus your
use of action words is correlated with efficacy. If work is
going well you are certainly contributing. If work is
going amiss perhaps its actually the project rather than
your output
Are we feeling reassured n pleased yet? I actually think
this would be a very beneficial area of happiness studies
as people spend many hours of recreational as well as
work time computing
There might be a metric basis for authentic robotic
compliments even though there's an absence of actual
human perspective "you are thoughtful to backup your
data only a person per 20 or 30 does that" although rarity
differs from value
basically as a technology a bunch of little programs go
fishing for compliments amongst the larger WWW to
benefit their human then reprocess them n say
encouraging words which during the software
development process are measured as being effective