alt Hacker News> I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet.
have you asked these people how they feel about this? have you asked them for permission, for their consent to do this with their communications to you?
what you’re doing sounds incredibly creepy. like, meta/facebook kinda of creepy. granted, it’s at a more limited scale, but it’s still creepy af dude.
fwiw, if i was your colleague and you asked me how i felt about you doing this with me, i’d be seeing about getting HR involved.
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trollbridge • today at 12:03 PM
Well, implicit in the TOS of things like Gmail, etc. is already permission to do this.
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Um, I absolutely expect my colleagues to update their internal model of me every time we communicate, to a greater or lesser degree depending on how much that communication deviates from their expectations, or how much new information it contains. In fact, that is essentially the purpose of communication.
Do you think you are not constantly being "influenced" to do what people want from you?
What do think happens during a peer review or promotion decision?
What do you think the pile of data in SharePoint / GDrive represents?
You think HR will care about someone taking prolific detailed notes at work?
I did phrase my comment in a glib way to draw out this type of reaction. But this type of stuff is what "intelligence augmentation" will include, and the corporate panopticon is already alive and well anyway.