The post critiques formulaic AI writing and says PEP—observation, feelings, values and requests—can replace verdicts with ownership and empathy.
The story
🟢 AI fingerprints
– Repeated question headings create a visible template.
– Each section uses the same contrast, abstract explanation and bleak quip.
– Amtssprache, E-Prime and PEP read like glossary entries. Broad claims lack limits, while several jokes add tone but no clarity.
🟢 Has judgement become inefficient?
“She’s careless” turns one event into a universal verdict. “When the report misses the agreed deadline, I feel anxious because I value reliability” reports experience instead. The speaker owns the judgement. How exhausting.
🟢 Can praise and policy malfunction?
“You’re brilliant” may create dependence on approval or unrealistic expectations. “I appreciated the clarity of your analysis” owns a response. Amtssprache, bureaucratic talk, assigns responsibility to orders, laws and policies. E-Prime drops forms of “to be,” steering humans towards experience and opinion rather than alleged fact.
🟢 What replaces the verdict?
The PEP method (based on cognitive empathy) has four parts: objective observation, feelings, values or wants, and a positive, actionable request. “When the report is late, I feel anxious because I value predictability. Would you send a status update by noon?” Faced with judgement, empathy often connects better than correction. Self-empathy finds the value beneath frustration before entropy takes the meeting.
🟢 Is agency still dreadful?
Value statements increase responsibility, not agreement. “I deserve to be happy” may imply that someone else must provide happiness. Framing it around personal choice and effort restores ownership, a dreadful quantity of agency. See Chapter 5, “Evaluation & Judgement,” in Scott Howard Swain’s “A Practical EmPath: Rewire Your Mind”.
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Based on https://clearsay.net/talk-on-chapter-5-evaluation-to-values/
