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gipptoday at 12:39 AM3 repliesview on HN

It would be easier to judge this if the jokes weren't 90% about AI and silicon valley, understandable only to people who subscribe to astralcodexten


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emp17344today at 12:45 AM

Probably because if they weren’t absurdly esoteric we’d be able to tell it isn’t funny.

omoikanetoday at 1:24 AM

I thought this one was not bad:

    [write a joke about thinking machines and the idea of tropes]

    it's funny how enemies to lovers is a common trope that's uncommon in real life and lovers to enemies is an uncommon trope that's common in real life
simonwtoday at 12:41 AM

Who's tommipink? Even a Google search couldn't explain that one.