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The Matchless Match — LessWrong
2+ hour, 52+ min ago (1817+ words) tl;dr I wanted to consult the internet for good triple and quadruple entendres. unable to find a good existing compilation, so I wrote my own! Attached at the end are some of my original contributions. - Fiddler on the Roof…...
Everything is Political Now, or, A Review of "Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock"
3+ week, 2+ day ago (701+ words) As a kid, Fraggle Rock was my favorite TV show. I can't really explain why. Maybe it was the characters, the songs, the sets, or its whole vibe, but for whatever reason, I loved it, and my entire way of…...
The Joke — LessWrong
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (591+ words) There is a joke format which I find quite fascinating. Let's call it Philosopher vs Engineer. It goes like this: the Philosopher raises some complicated philosophical question, while the Engineer gives a very straightforward applied answer. Some back and forth…...
Opus 4.5 is funny — LessWrong
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (683+ words) Certified funny man @Tom's B. claims that Opus 4.5 is funny. Is he right? Yes. Yes he is." I asked Opus to generate a lot of jokes, after using the standard word-association warm-up soup to give it my psychological fingerprints. And sure…...
Seven-ish Words from My Thought-Language — LessWrong
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (1315+ words) Published on October 26, 2025 4:30 AM GMT(With thanks to @TsviBT, @Lucie Philippon, and @johnswentworth for encouragement and feedback, among many.)Seven entries from a dictionary that will never exist, even though it should. The words in [brackets] show up with some…...
It Never Worked Before: Nine Intellectual Jokes — LessWrong
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (443+ words) I curated a collection of 9 of my favorite intellectual jokes. I will repost five of them here. In the final section, I offer a small treatise on when I like them, and why I consider many other "smart people jokes…...
Meetup Month — LessWrong
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) It's meetup month! If you've been vaguely thinking of getting involved with a some kind of rationalsphere in-person community stuff, now is a great time to do that, because lots of other people are doing that! It's the usual time…...