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Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by yourapostasy on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:46PM (#12346872)
Maybe someday our ML will be good enough (and alas, it is not currently) that a "fuzzy trope search engine" could be built. Enter a description of a situation, set of relationships, or condition, and up pops references to historical tropes that match and are related. Then I can short-circuit old ideas being pitched to me repackaged in new clothing passing off as genuinely new ideas, and send the pitcher the link.

The title of this post would perhaps pull up "Thoughtcrime" and other related tropes (religious heresy among them probably, wonder how far back this particular trope goes in recorded human history).

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Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by nefitty on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:24PM (#12347257)
That would be an amazing service. You could even provide short advising narratives, similar situations from novels, films, etc. and their conclusions to help guide the user to act appropriately according to their goal. It would be like a friend relating a, "Yeah, that happened to me once, this is what I did," kind of story except the stories would be pulled from hundreds of sources.
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Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by tripzilch on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:14AM (#12397217)
This is actually very similar to what an I-Ching reading does :) Except of course, the ML part is replaced by a random number generator (coins or sticks).

Fortunately we have an extremely powerful fuzzy narrative pattern matcher in our heads and with a bit of effort and interpretation people would still get useful advice from the method.

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Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and fe... by rexpop on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @08:17PM (#12348805)
This would be better than the "just-in-case" trope research I've been doing via piles and piles of books.
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