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In the so-called "Real World" one is not always able to locate and
surround one's self with such an erudite and perceptive audience
as
available on the HB. Family, colleagues and passerbys usually
don't
appreciate the significance of your new idea for self-buttering
toast
or how to really
fix the economy.
'The Agreeable' is an app of pre-recorded conversational snippets
for
the User who wishes to expound upon the state of the world,
football strategies or whatever is their topic du jour - but finds
themselves alone, or worse, surrounded by buffoons who don't
understand inciteful brilliance when they hear it.
Once the app is activated, you simply begin explaining your theory
of
why taxicabs should charge less money the longer you had to wait
for them to arrive (or what's wrong with the Govt. or whatever)
then
The Agreeable will periodically make encouraging noises along the
lines of "I see", "Brilliant", "Go on", "You've obviously thought this
through" and so forth. (I realize that Max B has staff for this sort
of
thing but not all of us have his disposable income).
For variety, the app would have a selection of modes ranging from
Fawning Sycophant, Cooing Member of the Opposite Gender (Oh
baby, I wish you were running the country, it's SUCH a turn-on) to,
perhaps, The House of Parliament with lots of desk thumping and
"Hear, Hear"s to spur you on.
All this at your fingertips for only $1.99. If you want disaffirmation
and abuse simply go on to just about any Internet forum and your
needs will be met for free.
Agree Bot
Agree-bot [JesusHChrist, Sep 08 2013]
Lem's Automathew's Friend
http://bookre.org/reader?file=253201 Just don't make your app indestructible! [create, Sep 09 2013]
MP Argument Clinic
https://www.youtube...watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y I'd like to have an argument, please! [create, Sep 09 2013]
Hear, hear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear Defiinitely not here, here. [spidermother, Sep 09 2013]
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An excellent idea, do please explain more! |
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Why, thank you [pocmloc] you are obviously a discerning and erudite individual. I'd be interested in hearing more of your insightful observations on anything at all. |
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In all seriousness you could probably make a bit of money selling this app. Perhaps it performs some rudimentary voice analysis, tone, volume, cadence, pauses, etc, and runs an algo to respond in kind. |
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There was someone a while back running a toll number where people would pay to call in and rant (or get ranted at, I forget which). |
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No one agreed with this idea when I first submitted it in
2008 either (link). I have found that it is much easier, (and
takes many fewer programming chops), to learn to like
disagreements and adversity and then join somewhere like
the Internet where everyone disagrees with your shit all
the time. I have annotations from all of my halfbakery
ideas set to random play on iTunes. I just listen to it all
day and I have found that as i encounter random
disagreements, it inspires me through frustration to think
more independently. I am currently thinking about
becoming an American lawyer. |
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Annotations... Itunes... but how? Is Stephen
Hawking reading the Internet to you? |
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I use Freedom Scientific's Open Book but you can convert
text to speech and then to mp3 for free online I think.
Google: save as mp3 text to speech |
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An excellent idea, do please explain uuh more. You always have such wonderful and exciting ideas. |
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As a background in a bar it might help draw a crowd ... or start a fight. |
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(Here Here or is it hear hear. What does it mean?) |
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