timothybone

All other things being equal.

I wish corporations had their shit together, make it easy on the consumer, but often they don't. Calling institutions to resolve disputes or handle general maintenance issues is a big waste of time and pain in the ass. Familiar with the long wait times when you call corporation x? It's especially bad when your question/problem is a thirty second (or less) fix/solution for the corp. support personnel to provide, because it's hugely frustrating to have to deal with waiting thirty minutes for something so simple. Could a startup solve this? At least fix the easy stuff? Could it save me the hassle of calling corp x when I need to: change home address, set up payment plans, resolve a charge dispute, request credit increase, change service, file a complaint, etc. etc. etc.

Many of us use a keyboard to navigate frequently. It would be great to press tab then be able to up-down among the stories on HN. I imagine others on here would enjoy this feature as well.

http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/

It really doesn't seem that far-fetched considering this is what is already being done. I can imagine numerous ways an AI would make writing a book less painful.