[jchoudh]

This is precisely our target state vision and where we are making significant progress in development (including an innovative pricing strategy). We would love to talk if you're interested, please feel free to email us at [e-mail]

[sergiotapia]

I'm not entirely sure but I am pretty certain siliconc0w was being sarcastic...

[siliconc0w]

I can actually be hired to throw sarcastic comments at your product and or idea for as little as just 99 cents per message.

In addition to offering 'hired guns' users could get suggestions automatically mined from other users with highly rated replies (similar to A.L.I.C.E) . The UI could be mass effect style with an array of choices:

I.e

T: what are you up to

derivative conversation detected! (read in a protoss voice)

Y:

   nothing u? (swipe left)

   busy go away (swipe right)

   returning video tapes (swipe up)

   robbing a bank (swipe down)

[jchoudh]

Even if he was, we aren't :)

Thanks!

[Pacabel]

If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was.

If somebody is disrespectful enough to engage in behavior as pathetic as that, then I want nothing to do with that person. Maybe "hipsters" would be fine with such shabby treatment, but I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking it's an extremely distasteful thing to do to somebody you're conversing with.

[csandreasen]

Not a fan of Cyrano de Bergerac, I take it?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PlayingCyrano

[cinquemb]

>If anyone ever pulled crap like that on me during a conversation, I would be done with that person forever. I wouldn't care who he or she was.

Assuming one would find out about such, which is plausible, but so is the opposite. I can even imagine such a system being engineered to lower such chances of the recipient being rendered unable to discern such messages from current situations where people ask friends nearby in person or over the phone.

It's amazing to watch what people/computers are able to do that can challenge the social constructs that are ingrained into us that some of us have come to accept as how things should be, only to be collectively reminded from time to time of how such systems are constructed on shifting sands in the scheme of things.

[lelandbatey]

What, to pay for advice to the question of "oh no, what should I say?!" Its unusual, but I wouldn't find it offensive.

[Pacabel]

No, to be the person on the receiving end of such a manufactured or deceiving message. Although, now that you mention it, spending good money on something so pathetic is kind of distasteful, too.

If somebody truly can't think of what to say next to me (or anybody else) in a conversation, then ending the conversation or admitting to not knowing what to say is much more sensible and preferable than spending money on getting some third-party to create a response.

[Cakez0r]

Any inspiration taken from Her?

[tdaltonc]

How would you feel if I signed up to write for your 'uber for conversations' and build AI to write on my behalf? I'm not being glib, I would actually do that, and I want to know if you'd be cool with it.

[jchoudh]

We would love to talk. Drop us a line at [e-mail]