AlexanderRM comments on False Laughter - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: AlexanderRM 07 August 2015 12:43:40AM 0 points [-]

I know I'm 8 years late on this (only started reading LessWrong a year ago)- does anyone have a good, snappy term for the quality of humor being funny regardless of the politics? There have been times when I was amused by a joke despite disagreeing with the political point, and wanted to make some comment along the lines of "I'm a [group attacked by the joke] and this passes the Yudkowsky Test of being funny regardless of the politics", but I think "Yudkowsky test" isn't a good term (for one thing, I have no idea if Yudkowsky actually came up with this originally).

(actually, a more generalized term of the art principle including humor would be useful. Although the only time I could think when I might have wanted to apply that was when I first listened to the ISIL theme, and that was a somewhat different attitude from my reaction to people who don't murder their ideological opponents coming up with a funny joke.)