This subtlety applies to a lot of human relationships. For example, ceremonial servants whose job is to stand around in livery exhibiting their employer's capacity for wasting human time. This is by definition a job robots couldn't do.
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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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