maybe if beauty is hitting a target that's hard to hit, humor is missing a target that's hard to miss
@VesselOfSpirit my humor beliefs are based on http://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_Jokes.html?id=InufugRltEMC … - humor as pornified reward for finding error in projected abstraction
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@sarahdoingthing i've seen somebody analogize it to catastrophe theory i think, maybe not legitimately -
@sarahdoingthing the idea being something like there's a sudden discontinuous shift in interpretation as a result of small ordinary steps - 10 more replies
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@VesselOfSpirit since we have to make (beautiful?) abstractions, they're like to have errors, errors make us sad so we need a reward -
@VesselOfSpirit then we start really getting off on structures with interesting errors (jokes etc.)
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