- See Also
- Gwern
-
Links
- “Survival without Dignity”, L 2024
- “The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
- “[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe 2024
- “Portland District 2024 Cat Calendar”, Henon 2024
- “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
- “ChatGPT Is Fun, but It Is Not Funny! Humor Is Still Challenging Large Language Models”, Jentzsch & Kersting 2023
- “Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Toplyn 2023
- “R. Crumb Means Some Offense: Even from His Refuge in France, the Comics Artist Still Makes America’s Pulse Race”, Miller 2022
- “Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
- Outsideness @ "2020-12-02"
- “‘Our Shmuck’: Russian Folklore about American Elections”, Arkhipova et al 2020
- “The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic: National Economies Collapse; Species Go Extinct; Political Movements Rise and Fizzle. But—Somehow, for Some Reason—Weird Al Keeps Rocking”, Anderson 2020
- “AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”, Walton 2019
- “The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
- “How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 Book Purported to Prove That the Siblings Were Murderous Bakers”, Todorov 2019
- “Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
- “Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis 2019
- “Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Character”, Rabino 2018
- “Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills 2018
- “DeepTingle”, Khalifa et al 2017
- “Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness”, Tanny 2016
- “[Aristotle], On Trolling”, Barney 2016
- Unsong, Alexander 2015
- “Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, Alexander 2015
- “Pricks: Pilot”, Ross 2015
- “Mission Statement”, Yankovic 2014
- “On the Rheology of Cats”, Fardin 2014
- “St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
- “The Effects of Relationship Context and Modality on Ratings of Funniness”, Cowan & Little 2013
- “Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps”, Mason 2012
- “The Floppy Toast”, Buttersafe 2012
- “A Brief History Of Paintball In Moscow”, Pelevin 2011
- “Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’”, Onion 2010
- “Possible Girls”, Sinhababu 2008
- “The Effects of Caffeine, Dextroamphetamine, and Modafinil on Humor Appreciation During Sleep Deprivation”, Killgore et al 2006
- “No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court”, Stallard 2004
- “True Porn Clerk Stories”, Davis 2002
- “Let There Be Light!”, Feuer 2001
- “Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995”, Watterson 2001
- “You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became As Difficult As the Real Thing”, Swartz 1998
- “Laws of Xmas [Have You Ever Wondered What Xmas Would Be like If It Were a Jewish Holiday?…]”, Miller & Miller 1998
- “Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants”, Matthews 1995
- “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
- “Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown”, Caplow 1984
- “Epigrams on Programming”, Perlis 1982
- “Decoding Middletown’s Easter Bunny: A Study in American Iconography”, Caplow & Williamson 1980
- “Been A Long, Long Time”, Lafferty 1970
- “Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [Invention of Sandwiches]”, Allen 1966
- “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Dahl 1953
- “The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols 1951
- “How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door”, Carryl 1902
- “Cannibalism in the Cars”, Twain 1868
- “Breakfast”, Lamb 1810
- “Rootless Root”
- “Hacker Humor”, Raymond 2024
- “Stargate Physics 101”
- “PaLM § Figure 19: [Explaining a Joke / Inference Chaining] Each ‘Input” Was Independently Prepended With the Same 2-Shot Exemplar Shown at the Top, and “Model Output’ Shows the Greedy Decoding Output of PaLM 540B. The Two Exemplar Jokes Are Known Jokes (explanations Written by Authors), While All Evaluated Jokes Were Written by the Authors. Of Course, These Jokes Do Share Abstract Premises With Existing Jokes (wordplay, Reliability, Humorous Analogies, Reversal-Of-Expectations). The Inference Chaining Examples Were Also Written by the Authors.”
- “Bahfest”
- “The Artist Yoshitoshi, Whose Usual Specialty Was Serious Depictions of Historic Warriors, Has Envisioned the Eternal War between Cats and Mice As a Grand Epic of Battling Samurai Clans in 6 Small, Humorous Vignettes. The Mice Often Defeat the Cats by Such Means As Frightening Them With a Large Toy Dog, Trapping Them in Paper Snack Bags, or Stealing Food While the Cat on Watch Dozes Off.”
- “The Tomorrow Man”
- “Lil Werner”
- “Rupert And Hubert”
- “Secular Heaven”
- “Epilogue”
- “Trouble In Memphis”
- “Girl Vs Bear”
- “Traversing The Luminiferous Aether”
- “Summer Dream Job”
- “Dungeons And Discourse”
- “Hob #20 - Copan”
- “Hob #26 - Epilogue”
- “Advanced Dungeons & Discourse”
- “Exorcising Laplace's Demon”
- “42 Essential 3rd Act Twists”
- “A Thinking Ape's Critique of Trans-Simianism”
- “Fabulous Prizes”
- “You'Re A Good Man, Charlie Darwin”
- “The Sleepwalkers”
- “Caveman Science Fiction”, Diaz 2024
- “Lantern Season”
- “The Process”
- “Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie”
- “Dark Science #02 - The Complexities of Finance”
- “Dark Science #09 - Insufficient Credibility”
- “Dark Science #49 - Exode”
- “How I Did Relay Quine”
- “Subways Are For Sleeping (1962) § Fake Critic Reviews”
- “Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
- “Using GPT-3 to Explain Jokes”
- “Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods”
- “The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi”
- “Cooking Up ‘Mehran’s Steak House’”, Jalali 2024
- “G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk”
- “Samsara”
- “Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
- “6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
- “Millions and Millions Dead”
- “Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In U.S.”
- “If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories”
- “BMJ Christmas Issue”
- Fontemon
- “Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle 2024
- “Too Busy to Think about Life”
- The Tao of Programming
- “Reddit”
- “A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction's Greatest Humorists”
- “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy (‘No’)”, Onion 2024
- “End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64”
- “My Deer Friend Nokotan § Torako’s Dance”
- “Dare To Be Stupid”, Yankovic 2024
- matttomic
- “Bag Check”, Munroe 2024
- Sort By Magic
- Wikipedia
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Startup Ideas”, Gwern 2017
“Paperclip Alignment Chart”, Gwern 2023
“It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World”, Gwern 2022
“GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern 2020
“Epigrams”, Gwern 2014
“Dinosaur Comics Comics”, Gwern 2011
Links
“Survival without Dignity”, L 2024
“The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
“[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe 2024
View External Link:
“Portland District 2024 Cat Calendar”, Henon 2024
“Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
“ChatGPT Is Fun, but It Is Not Funny! Humor Is Still Challenging Large Language Models”, Jentzsch & Kersting 2023
ChatGPT is fun, but it is not funny! Humor is still challenging Large Language Models
“Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Toplyn 2023
Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation
“R. Crumb Means Some Offense: Even from His Refuge in France, the Comics Artist Still Makes America’s Pulse Race”, Miller 2022
“Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor
Outsideness @ "2020-12-02"
“‘Our Shmuck’: Russian Folklore about American Elections”, Arkhipova et al 2020
“The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic: National Economies Collapse; Species Go Extinct; Political Movements Rise and Fizzle. But—Somehow, for Some Reason—Weird Al Keeps Rocking”, Anderson 2020
“AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”, Walton 2019
AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights
“The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
“How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 Book Purported to Prove That the Siblings Were Murderous Bakers”, Todorov 2019
“Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec 2019
Early Titanic Jokes: A disaster for the theory of disaster jokes?
“Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis 2019
Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?
“Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Character”, Rabino 2018
“Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills 2018
“DeepTingle”, Khalifa et al 2017
“Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness”, Tanny 2016
“[Aristotle], On Trolling”, Barney 2016
Unsong, Alexander 2015
“Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, Alexander 2015
Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly:
View External Link:
https://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%98-the-general-assembly/
“Pricks: Pilot”, Ross 2015
View PDF:
“Mission Statement”, Yankovic 2014
“On the Rheology of Cats”, Fardin 2014
View PDF:
“St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin 2013
“The Effects of Relationship Context and Modality on Ratings of Funniness”, Cowan & Little 2013
The effects of relationship context and modality on ratings of funniness
“Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps”, Mason 2012
Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading with Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps
“The Floppy Toast”, Buttersafe 2012
“A Brief History Of Paintball In Moscow”, Pelevin 2011
“Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’”, Onion 2010
Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’
“Possible Girls”, Sinhababu 2008
“The Effects of Caffeine, Dextroamphetamine, and Modafinil on Humor Appreciation During Sleep Deprivation”, Killgore et al 2006
“No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court”, Stallard 2004
No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court:
View PDF:
“True Porn Clerk Stories”, Davis 2002
View PDF:
“Let There Be Light!”, Feuer 2001
“Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985–1995”, Watterson 2001
“You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became As Difficult As the Real Thing”, Swartz 1998
You Dumb Babies! How raising the Rugrats children became as difficult as the real thing:
View PDF:
“Laws of Xmas [Have You Ever Wondered What Xmas Would Be like If It Were a Jewish Holiday?…]”, Miller & Miller 1998
Laws of Xmas [Have you ever wondered what Xmas would be like if it were a Jewish Holiday?…]
“Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants”, Matthews 1995
“Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij 1990
Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511:
View PDF:
“Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown”, Caplow 1984
Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown
“Epigrams on Programming”, Perlis 1982
“Decoding Middletown’s Easter Bunny: A Study in American Iconography”, Caplow & Williamson 1980
Decoding Middletown’s Easter bunny: A study in American iconography
“Been A Long, Long Time”, Lafferty 1970
View PDF:
“Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [Invention of Sandwiches]”, Allen 1966
Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [invention of sandwiches]:
“The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Dahl 1953
“The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols 1951
“How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door”, Carryl 1902
“Cannibalism in the Cars”, Twain 1868
View PDF:
“Breakfast”, Lamb 1810
View External Link:
“Rootless Root”
“Hacker Humor”, Raymond 2024
“Stargate Physics 101”
“PaLM § Figure 19: [Explaining a Joke / Inference Chaining] Each ‘Input” Was Independently Prepended With the Same 2-Shot Exemplar Shown at the Top, and “Model Output’ Shows the Greedy Decoding Output of PaLM 540B. The Two Exemplar Jokes Are Known Jokes (explanations Written by Authors), While All Evaluated Jokes Were Written by the Authors. Of Course, These Jokes Do Share Abstract Premises With Existing Jokes (wordplay, Reliability, Humorous Analogies, Reversal-Of-Expectations). The Inference Chaining Examples Were Also Written by the Authors.”
“Bahfest”
Bahfest:
“The Artist Yoshitoshi, Whose Usual Specialty Was Serious Depictions of Historic Warriors, Has Envisioned the Eternal War between Cats and Mice As a Grand Epic of Battling Samurai Clans in 6 Small, Humorous Vignettes. The Mice Often Defeat the Cats by Such Means As Frightening Them With a Large Toy Dog, Trapping Them in Paper Snack Bags, or Stealing Food While the Cat on Watch Dozes Off.”
“The Tomorrow Man”
“Lil Werner”
“Rupert And Hubert”
“Secular Heaven”
“Epilogue”
Epilogue:
“Trouble In Memphis”
“Girl Vs Bear”
“Traversing The Luminiferous Aether”
“Summer Dream Job”
“Dungeons And Discourse”
“Hob #20 - Copan”
“Hob #26 - Epilogue”
“Advanced Dungeons & Discourse”
“Exorcising Laplace's Demon”
“42 Essential 3rd Act Twists”
“A Thinking Ape's Critique of Trans-Simianism”
“Fabulous Prizes”
“You'Re A Good Man, Charlie Darwin”
“The Sleepwalkers”
“Caveman Science Fiction”, Diaz 2024
“Lantern Season”
“The Process”
“Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie”
Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie:
“Dark Science #02 - The Complexities of Finance”
“Dark Science #09 - Insufficient Credibility”
“Dark Science #49 - Exode”
“How I Did Relay Quine”
“Subways Are For Sleeping (1962) § Fake Critic Reviews”
“Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
“Using GPT-3 to Explain Jokes”
“Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods”
“The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi”
“Cooking Up ‘Mehran’s Steak House’”, Jalali 2024
“G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk”
View External Link:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/01/g-k-chesterton-on-ai-risk/
“Samsara”
“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
“6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
“Millions and Millions Dead”
“Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In U.S.”
“If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories”
“BMJ Christmas Issue”
Fontemon
“Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle 2024
“Too Busy to Think about Life”
The Tao of Programming
“Reddit”
Reddit:
“A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction's Greatest Humorists”
“God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy (‘No’)”, Onion 2024
“End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64”
End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64:
“My Deer Friend Nokotan § Torako’s Dance”
“Dare To Be Stupid”, Yankovic 2024
matttomic
“Bag Check”, Munroe 2024
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