maybe if beauty is hitting a target that's hard to hit, humor is missing a target that's hard to miss
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@sarahdoingthing e.g. if someone tells a long story as the setup for a terrible pun then on the surface there's a natural thing that's partThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing of the regular order of life, but suddenly it turns out to have been driven by word coincidences in a really contrived way -
@sarahdoingthing which i guess fits well with the thing about "something mechanical in something living" http://www.timoroso.com/philosophy/writings/sketches/2006-04-09-henri-bergsons-theory-of-laughter … -
@sarahdoingthing the thing that pretended to be capable of being reasoned about in theory-of-mind kind of ways turns out to be -
@sarahdoingthing better modeled by lower-level mechanistic explanations that you wouldn't expect to lead to natural behavior
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