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240 Socially Intelligent AgentsFigure 29.2.Talk Nice flowchartunderstand the content of what the user says. The video directs the exchangewith relentless cheeriness, setting an agenda of extroverted chat. The girls seemto lead participants into the situation by means of a reward promised at the end(the Party), but really they are persuading through the old teenager techniqueof setting themselves up as the in-group, taunting everyone else to try and getin, and threatening humiliation for failure. Issues of selfhood do hold swayhere, even if there is no intelligent agent that overtly acquires and displays asense of self. There are questions suggested about where selfhood resides in theinteractive situation, and about the impact of the work on both the artificial and