Normal_Anomaly comments on False Laughter - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2007 06:03AM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 27 November 2011 04:48:28PM 3 points [-]

Totally off topic, but can someone point me to an explanation of this paragraph?

You might say that a predictable punchline is too high-entropy to be funny, by that same logic which says you should be enormously less surprised to find your thermostat reading 30 degrees than 29 degrees.