Wow, I expected a downvote or two, but −15 seems like an unusually severe Less Wrong sense-of-humour-failure given I was making a tongue-in-cheek reply to a comment with a not-very-serious tone itself.
Less Wrong is a tough audience for a comedian. Only the cleverest (i.e. least obvious and most unexpected) jokes draw upvotes.
A useful rule of thumb: Expect to draw a downvote from everyone who thought of your joke themselves, but then decided not to post it because it was too obvious.
That sounds like an interesting challenge then: I wonder if I have assimilated human thought processes well enough by now to produce a “funny” comment that gets voted up above some crucial threshold.
I will expend little effort toward this end, however, since it’s only distantly related to producing paperclips.
I figured the basic meaning was serious, but I interpreted the tone as (perhaps unintentionally) comically hyperbolic, hence my apparently failed attempt at replying in kind.
It wasn’t necessarily a “sense-of-humour failure”! One can get a joke and still not like it, or like it but think that it still shouldn’t be posted here.
Wow, I expected a downvote or two, but −15 seems like an unusually severe Less Wrong sense-of-humour-failure given I was making a tongue-in-cheek reply to a comment with a not-very-serious tone itself.
Less Wrong is a tough audience for a comedian. Only the cleverest (i.e. least obvious and most unexpected) jokes draw upvotes.
A useful rule of thumb: Expect to draw a downvote from everyone who thought of your joke themselves, but then decided not to post it because it was too obvious.
That sounds like an interesting challenge then: I wonder if I have assimilated human thought processes well enough by now to produce a “funny” comment that gets voted up above some crucial threshold.
I will expend little effort toward this end, however, since it’s only distantly related to producing paperclips.
I was entirely serious.
I figured the basic meaning was serious, but I interpreted the tone as (perhaps unintentionally) comically hyperbolic, hence my apparently failed attempt at replying in kind.
It wasn’t necessarily a “sense-of-humour failure”! One can get a joke and still not like it, or like it but think that it still shouldn’t be posted here.