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Hu­mor (meta)

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Meta-Humor is the analysis of what makes things funny, and the roles humor plays in sociology and cognition.

For posts that are themselves humor, see humor.

False Laughter

Eliezer YudkowskyDec 22, 2007, 6:03 AM
43 points
65 comments3 min readLW link

A The­ory of Laughter

Steven ByrnesAug 23, 2023, 3:05 PM
102 points
14 comments28 min readLW link

A The­ory of Laugh­ter—Fol­low-Up

Steven ByrnesSep 14, 2023, 3:35 PM
37 points
3 comments8 min readLW link

Hu­mor isn’t norm evasion

KatjaGraceAug 12, 2010, 5:21 PM
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

The Orange Head Joke

Anatoly_VorobeyJan 25, 2011, 8:33 PM
30 points
96 comments2 min readLW link

ChatGPT tells sto­ries about XP-708-DQ, Eliezer, drag­ons, dark sor­cer­esses, and un­al­igned robots be­com­ing aligned

Bill BenzonJan 8, 2023, 11:21 PM
6 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

On Humor

Chris LandSep 18, 2021, 9:40 PM
6 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

An out­line of an ironic LessWrong post

YitzMar 25, 2022, 10:51 PM
−6 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

The Last Laugh: Ex­plor­ing the Role of Hu­mor as a Bench­mark for Large Lan­guage Models

Greg RobisonFeb 12, 2024, 6:34 PM
4 points
6 comments11 min readLW link
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