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naraburns  nihil supernum  6mo ago (astralcodexten.com)   1941 thread views

ACT: Hardball Questions For The Next Debate

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I'd guess the vast majority of you read Astral Codex Ten regardless of whether it gets posted here, but Scott's latest culture war (adjacent) post is not to be missed.

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Not many things can make me laugh out loud in a public place. This made me laugh so hard I lost control over the fart I'd been holding in. I hope the subway train was loud enough.

Conversely, to me it is perhaps some of the worst "comedy" I have ever read in my life, and I am genuinely astounded that it could make anyone laugh.

Just offering an alternative perspective, dear reader out there, if, like me, reading this thread for you feels like having walked into a North Korean birthday party for Kim Jong-un.

Can you give an example of comedy that does make you laugh? I think this sketch really relies on its readers enjoying word games, which most nerds do like.

I laughed, but I'd concur it's worst of the bunch, bc it's basically just a single joke stretched out very long, and relies too much on pure wit with almost no actual content.

Well, I enjoyed the hardball question series too, but they also were quite similar: a very long and detailed setup and then the question was unrelated to the setup itself or was a "Descartes before the whores" kind of pun.

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