“‘Humor’ Tag”,2019-10-01 (STEM humor)⁠:

Bibliography for tag fiction/humor, most recent first: 5 related tags, 113 annotations, & 115 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “SPQR vs Dot-Com”, Gwern2024
  • “Startup Ideas”, Gwern2017
  • “Paperclip Alignment Chart”, Gwern2023
  • “It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World”, Gwern2022
  • “GPT-3 Creative Fiction”, Gwern2020
  • “Epigrams”, Gwern2014
  • “Dinosaur Comics Comics”, Gwern2011
• Links
  • “Survival without Dignity”, L 2024
  • “The Later Years of Douglas Adams”
  • “[On Gricean Maxims]”, Munroe2024
  • “Portland District2024 Cat Calendar”, Henon2024
  • “Paperclip Alignment Chart (Alternate)”, saturn2 2023
  • “ChatGPT Is Fun, but It Is Not Funny! Humor Is Still Challenging Large Language Models”, Jentzsch & Kersting2023
  • “Witscript 3: A Hybrid AI System for Improvising Jokes in a Conversation”, Toplyn2023
  • “R. Crumb Means Some Offense: Even from His Refuge in France, the Comics Artist Still Makes America’s Pulse Race”, Miller2022
  • “Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
  • Outsideness @ “2020-12-02”
  • “‘Our Schmuck’: Russian Folklore about American Elections”, Arkhipova et al 2020
  • “The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic: National Economies Collapse; Species Go Extinct; Political Movements Rise and Fizzle. But—Somehow, for Some Reason—Weird Al Keeps Rocking”, Anderson2020
  • “AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights”, Walton2019
  • “The Rotten Library Archives”, Rotten.com 2019
  • “How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 Book Purported to Prove That the Siblings Were Murderous Bakers”, Todorov2019
  • “Early Titanic Jokes: A Disaster for the Theory of Disaster Jokes?”, Chovanec2019
  • “Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis2019
  • “Analysis and Qualitative Effects of Large Breasts on Aerodynamic Performance and Wake of a Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid Character”, Rabino2018
  • “Humor Norms for 4,997 English Words”, Engelthaler & Hills2018
  • “DeepTingle”, Khalifa et al 2017
  • “Decoding Seinfeld’s Jewishness”, Tanny2016
  • “[Aristotle], On Trolling”, Barney2016
  • Unsong, Alexander2015
  • “Unsong § Interlude ט: The General Assembly”, Alexander2015
  • “Pricks: Pilot”, Ross2015
  • “Mission Statement”, Yankovic2014
  • “On the Rheology of Cats”, Fardin2014
  • “St Martin’s Four Wishes”, Dubin2013
  • “The Effects of Relationship Context and Modality on Ratings of Funniness”, Cowan & Little2013
  • “Jay-Z’s 99 Problems, Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps”, Mason2012
  • “The Floppy Toast”, Buttersafe2012
  • “A Brief History Of Paintball In Moscow”, Pelevin2011
  • “Smart, Qualified People Behind The Scenes Keeping America Safe: ‘We Don’t Exist’”, Onion2010
  • “Possible Girls”, Sinhababu2008
  • “The Effects of Caffeine, Dextroamphetamine, and Modafinil on Humor Appreciation During Sleep Deprivation”, Killgore et al 2006
  • “No Justice, No Foul: Everything You Didn’t Know That You Were Afraid To Know About The Supreme Court”, Stallard2004
  • “True Porn Clerk Stories”, Davis2002
  • “Let There Be Light!”, Feuer2001
  • “Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985^–₁₀1995_29ya”, Watterson2001
  • “You Dumb Babies! How Raising the Rugrats Children Became As Difficult As the Real Thing”, Swartz1998
  • “Laws of Xmas [Have You Ever Wondered What Xmas Would Be like If It Were a Jewish Holiday?…]”, Miller & Miller1998
  • “Tumbling Toast, Murphy’s Law and the Fundamental Constants”, Matthews1995
  • “Urban Elites in Search of a Culture: The Brussels Snow Festival of 1511”, Pleij1990
  • “Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown”, Caplow1984
  • “Epigrams on Programming”, Perlis1982
  • “Decoding Middletown’s Easter Bunny: A Study in American Iconography”, Caplow & Williamson1980
  • “Been A Long, Long Time”, Lafferty1970
  • “Yes, But Can the Steam Engine Do This? [Invention of Sandwiches]”, Allen1966
  • “The Great Automatic Grammatizator”, Dahl1953
  • “The Art of Classical Swearing”, Echols1951
  • “How The Helpmate Of Blue-Beard Made Free With A Door”, Carryl1902
  • “Cannibalism in the Cars”, Twain1868
  • “Breakfast”, Lamb1810
  • “Rootless Root”
  • “Hacker Humor”, Raymond2024
  • “Stargate Physics 101”
  • “PaLM § Figure 19: [Explaining a Joke / Inference Chaining] Each ’Input” Was Independently Prepended With the Same 2-Shot Exemplar Shown at the Top, and “Model Output’ Shows the Greedy Decoding Output of PaLM 540B. The Two Exemplar Jokes Are Known Jokes (explanations Written by Authors), While All Evaluated Jokes Were Written by the Authors. Of Course, These Jokes Do Share Abstract Premises With Existing Jokes (wordplay, Reliability, Humorous Analogies, Reversal-Of-Expectations). The Inference Chaining Examples Were Also Written by the Authors.”
  • “Bahfest”
  • “The Artist Yoshitoshi, Whose Usual Specialty Was Serious Depictions of Historic Warriors, Has Envisioned the Eternal War between Cats and Mice As a Grand Epic of Battling Samurai Clans in 6 Small, Humorous Vignettes. The Mice Often Defeat the Cats by Such Means As Frightening Them With a Large Toy Dog, Trapping Them in Paper Snack Bags, or Stealing Food While the Cat on Watch Dozes Off.”
  • “The Tomorrow Man”
  • “Lil Werner”
  • “Rupert And Hubert”
  • “Secular Heaven”
  • “Epilogue”
  • “Trouble In Memphis”
  • “Girl Vs Bear”
  • “Traversing The Luminiferous Aether”
  • “Summer Dream Job”
  • “Dungeons And Discourse”
  • “Hob #20 - Copan”
  • “Hob #26 - Epilogue”
  • “Advanced Dungeons & Discourse”
  • “Exorcising Laplace’s Demon”
  • “42 Essential 3^rd Act Twists”
  • “A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism”
  • “Fabulous Prizes”
  • “You’Re A Good Man, Charlie Darwin”
  • “The Sleepwalkers”
  • “Caveman Science Fiction”, Diaz2024
  • “Lantern Season”
  • “The Process”
  • “Dark Science #01 - The Collected Works of Shakespeare: the Movie”
  • “Dark Science #02 - The Complexities of Finance”
  • “Dark Science #09 - Insufficient Credibility”
  • “Dark Science #49 - Exode”
  • “How I Did Relay Quine”
  • “Subways Are For Sleeping (1962_62ya) § Fake Critic Reviews”
  • “Is the Great Attractor a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann?”
  • “Using GPT-3 to Explain Jokes”
  • “Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods”
  • “The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi”
  • “Cooking Up ‘Mehran’s Steak House’”, Jalali2024
  • “G.K. Chesterton On AI Risk”
  • “Samsara”
  • “Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found”
  • “6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling”
  • “Millions and Millions Dead”
  • “Study: Wolf Attacks Still Leading Cause Of Death In U.S.”
  • “If All Stories Were Written like Science Fiction Stories”
  • “BMJ Christmas Issue”
  • Fontemon
  • “Strange Planet (Instagram)”, Pyle2024
  • “Too Busy to Think about Life”
  • The Tao of Programming
  • “Reddit”
  • “A Long-Lost Space Age Satire about What It Means to Be a Jew from One of Science Fiction’s Greatest Humorists”
  • “God Answers Prayers Of Paralyzed Little Boy (‘No’)”, Onion2024
  • “End of Evangelion In 5 Minutes (Live Action) (Sweded)—Mega64”
  • “My Deer Friend Nokotan § Torako’s Dance”
  • “Dare To Be Stupid”, Yankovic2024
  • matttomic
  • “Duty Calls”, Munroe2024
  • “Bag Check”, Munroe2024
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