AspiringKnitter comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

20 Post author: gwern 01 January 2012 09:35AM

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 09 January 2012 02:17:03AM 5 points [-]

Ding ding ding we have a winner.

(Four downvotes? I'm really unfunny or really bad at signaling when I'm joking.)

Comment author: FiftyTwo 09 January 2012 02:46:46AM *  7 points [-]

Third hypothesis, people realised it was a joke but didn't find it sufficiently funny, and therefore chose deliberately to punish you.

Comment author: Anubhav 09 January 2012 02:54:47AM *  5 points [-]

It was funny enough to me.... Maybe you overdid the deadpan?

Comment author: fortyeridania 09 January 2012 06:57:24AM 3 points [-]

It's hard to deadpan without a face to do it with.

Comment author: wedrifid 09 January 2012 07:11:28AM 6 points [-]

It's hard to deadpan without a face to do it with.

Sounds like something to say to Neo when he's getting lippy!

Comment author: [deleted] 09 January 2012 02:24:11AM 2 points [-]

The latter, I think, and the fact that we've seen others completely miss the joke with regularity in the past.