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Sarcasm (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Is There a Silly Trope Out There?

It's a lot more entertaining than funny to make fun of it. We can pretend like it should never have been taken seriously. And then we can all enjoy how much we agree. This is silly and worthy of derision. But that is just a way of seeing like, oh, there's this silly trope. That is, you're seeing that you're not just recognizing it, you're dismissing it or seeing it as bad. It helps us understand there are in fact many silly tropes out there. Right. Mm.

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