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And according to my sources it isn’t all that difficult to build a program which can read a few conversation threads on a topic then make short comments that are indistinguishable from a live person on a similar thread. I would write something to do that and haunt the comment sections of the anti-gun websites but they disable comments or we outnumber them about 100 to 1 already. Hence human labor ends up being “cheaper” than automating the task.
It would be even easier to automate the task of responding as an anti-gun person to all the pro-gun websites—so I did:
namespace AntiGunComment
{
using System;
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string[] commentCollection =
{
“ban armor piercing ammo”,
“ban assault weapons”,
“ban cop killer bullets”,
“ban plastic guns”,
“ban Saturday Night Specials”,
“ban sniper rifles”,
“ban the shoulder thing that goes up”,
“close the gun show loophole”,
“get illegal guns off the streets”,
“keep guns out of the hands of children”,
“license gun owners”,
“reduce gun availability”,
“register all guns”,
“require an arsenal license”,
};
const string commentFormat = “We need to {0}. It’s just COMMON SENSE!”;
Random randomNumberGenerator = new Random();
int index = randomNumberGenerator.Next(commentCollection.Length);
Console.Write(string.Format(commentFormat, commentCollection[index]));
}
}
}
In case the source code is a little too obscure here is an executable for up to date Windows machines.
It’s a little scary to think someone could be replaced with such a small number of lines of code. With a little more work the capabilities could be enhanced such that it could respond to Bing News alerts by making a blog post. This could replace most of the anti-gun bloggers out there (hmm… maybe I could do that next weekend). I wonder what Joan Peterson and MikeB302000 would think of that… but then, maybe they already have been replaced. That would explain some things.
