{"id":2410,"date":"2018-12-15T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T17:56:33","slug":"humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2410","title":{"rendered":"Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humor is how we communicate our intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humor depends on something being out of context, that does not fit into \u201cits\u201d pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Only a Brain that knows the pattern can tell when something does not fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Explaining a joke is not funny. Explaining \u201cwhy\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>fits the something into another pattern. Those of similar brains who see similar patterns just \u201cget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pieces out of context are not always funny. Chaos can be terrifying. Clowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Do animals laugh?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of course, when someone does something out of context that they see as funny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Will machines ever laugh?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of course, but we\u2019ll never know why it happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We won\u2019t get the joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Machines explaining it to us won\u2019t be very funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humor is how we communicate our intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Humor depends on something being out of context, that does not fit into \u201cits\u201d pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Only a Brain that knows the pattern can tell when something does not fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Explaining a joke is not funny. Explaining \u201cwhy\u201d\u00a0 fits the something into another pattern. Those of similar brains who see similar patterns just \u201cget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pieces out of context are not always funny. Chaos can be terrifying. Clowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Do animals laugh?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of course, when someone does something out of context that they see as  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=2410\">Read more\u2026 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[541,315,422],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window","category-outer-limits","tag-context","tag-humor","tag-intelligence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3mcOb-humor","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}