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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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