AndyWood comments on How I Ended Up Non-Ambitious - Less Wrong

113 Post author: Swimmer963 23 January 2012 11:50PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 January 2012 05:20:23AM *  12 points [-]

I trained myself to pretend that people exist. This is maybe the achievement I'm most proud of, besides this.

My training is pretty useless when someone stops earning the effort. They effectively stop existing.

Comment author: AndyWood 31 January 2012 11:44:57AM 2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure this is the most joke-theoretically perfect joke I've ever encountered. Not only did I laugh, but 3 minutes later I was still laughing again for new reasons.

Comment author: wedrifid 31 January 2012 01:01:10PM 2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure this is the most joke-theoretically perfect joke I've ever encountered.

Joke theory is such that the maximisation thereof is bestiality puns? I mean, it cracked me up too but my theoretical conception calls for a perfection where the lewdness is on the subtle side of the spectrum!

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 03:20:16PM *  0 points [-]

I'm of the Michael O'Donoghue school. Jokes should be like Teflon-coated "cop killer" bullets. The subtlety part of the compression algorithm is only there to ensure delivery.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 January 2012 03:20:52PM *  1 point [-]

Thank you. Six years ago, I was working as a mover and carrying a box labeled "DR" for dining room. There was a Lab running around the customer's front yard. Suddenly!