This is one of the very few occasions in which I feel sad that Nick Bostrom didn't go on his career as a stand up comedian.

There is so much good material in the rationalist community to draw for good comedy.

And the best is that it makes you think as well as laugh.

I still don't know whether being vegan is a bad or a good thing (my emotion tells me it is very good). But for one thing, I know that it is hilarious to be on both sides of the issue.

We really are missing comedians to ironize all the major battles. AI X FAI. Atheist X Simulationist. Dust X Counterfactual-computationalism. Veg x Meat-Veg. NegUtilitarian X HedUtilitarin. "I want to preserve my rationalisty" X CogEnhancemnt, Tinkering with narrow AI X AIXI Solomonoff reduction. Foom X Slow Takeoff.

When LW outputs rational Larry David, it will be a blast.