Social way is managing to find a counterparty in able and willing to engage in a sort of deepening mutuality. So far this means a willing and able human. AIs haven't yet reached capability of being infinitizing counterparty and may be definitionally incapable of it.
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Humor I think is under-appreciated and under-theorized in merely epistemic terms. I've been thinking about this essay for a few days which has some good food for thought beyond epistemic functions of humor (ht
@janedotx).https://epochemagazine.org/what-laughs-at-what-mary-douglas-on-humour-da1529c05da3 …Show this thread -
For eg. This by
@sarahdoingthing is epistemic view of humor "The essence of a joke, in Hurley, Dennett, and Adams’ view, is that the teller of the joke surreptitiously introduces a certain epistemic commitment, and then reveals it to have been mistaken."https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/01/07/on-some-possibilities-for-life-as-a-joke/ …Show this thread -
The first link makes the important point that you cannot get at the essence of humor by looking for the essence of jokes. Humor (and this is my gloss on the implication, not the argument in either article) is a posture of being, not doing.
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tldr of this thread... the problem of meaning is a problem of life-force in disguise, and has historically been addressed via one of 3 stances: serious, crazy, and humorous. Meaning-making, gonzo-experiential, and humor. Maps to sorokin's ideational, sensate, idealistic perhaps?
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"Meaning" is the framework we use to minimize Friston prediction error at the highest levels of consciousness. "A did B because X". 1/
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Many (very different) meaning frameworks are possible (science, religion, ideology, conspiracy theory, ...) because many explanations are possible for why things happened, esp when you're willing to make exceptions. (And you have to because there is always prediction error) 2/
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