2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Filthy Smear Campaign Being Conducted Against Sanders [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Using nothing more than if/then gosub/return depending on input variables.
Just have Brock write the varied subroutine's text output and depending on the issue raised, or the preferred smear spread, the subroutine would spit out consistent output based on the if x=" political discourse whatever it may be" (not designed to actually argue anything true or original makes that simple, no artificial intelligence required or even desired), but since repetition of the replies that are lies or evasions anyway, and repetition being the key to this tactics success, it would actually work much more efficiently than the less than capable human liars or believers of the official lies or smears spreading the subroutines now (they can at times get slightly off script).
In the rare case of an unexpected input for x, just randomize which subroutine is to be used, I see it done all the time by non program posters, bloggers, and "journalists" online all the time.
Such a simple program would ensure consistency in the lie and thus aid more effectively in the neural imprinting of the desired false belief system designed to program falsehoods in the human brains they target.
I haven't the ability to write old basic anymore (never bothered to learn visual BASIC) and don't know where to find an emulator of the old stuff that will run on windows.
But if I had my old 80486 and the DOS and BASIC software, I could write the shit out of a Big lie / smear campaign with very few lines of numbered code.
I never kept up with programming after around '87 or so, the only programming I have done in the modern era involved specific commands used in 3D modeling software and engineering applications used (in my case) for furniture and mill-work design.
The programming I use is specific to engineering/architectural apps that allow me to change an entire build set of prints to varying specs just by changing some measurement numbers (the program and software changes all related parts and connecting bits in both the 3D rendering and the build or "shop" drawing blueprints, if I say, widen a complicated cabinet by x amount of inches.
But you could write it, easily, if you lacked integrity and worked for David Brock. I just hope we are not giving him ideas.