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LaughBench — LessWrong
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (25+ words) Introducing LaughBench. • For a long time, I've considered the ability for AI models to tell novel, funny jokes that actually make people laugh to be…...
All Watched Over — LessWrong
1+ week, 4+ day ago (638+ words) I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of lovi…...
5 Things I Learned About People From Doing Stand-Up Comedy — LessWrong
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (32+ words) People need to put you in a box I’ve been doing stand-up comedy for two months now, which is a total gear shift from my previous job in AI policy…...
Announcing Doublehaven with Reflections on Humour — LessWrong
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (935+ words) Note the date of this post. I look at this and I feel the same way that traditionalists feel when they see Millennials scared to use the phone, or Gen Zs unable to go outside. Our (blogosphere) ancestors used to…...
Moltbook shitposts are actually really funny — LessWrong
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1830+ words) For those of you not yet familiar, Moltbook is a Reddit-like social media for AI agents. As of writing, it already has over 1 million agents signed up, over 13000 submolts and over 48000 posts. This is in the 4 days since its creation…...
The Matchless Match — LessWrong
5+ mon, 4+ week 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"
6+ mon, 2+ week 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
7+ mon, 4+ week 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
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (683+ words) Certified funny man @Tomás 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…...
Seven-ish Words from My Thought-Language — LessWrong
9+ mon, 2+ 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…...