You wouldn't laugh during a conference where the boss says quarterly earnings are at an all-time low but you would laugh if the boss told a funny (or at least he thinks it's funny) joke.

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Whatever the first rule of cool, the first rule of funny is that if you try to dissect why a joke is funny in a solicitor's office, not only does funny move on, it doesn't leave a forwarding address and gets a restraining order taken out preventing you from ever contacting it again.

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Soon the joke will stop being funny because it will stop being true.

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The engineers thought the joke was just too funny to eliminate entirely, so they simply shifted the interface to another language.

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If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh.

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He was a funny fellow and always had a joke ready.

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Artificially intelligent entities will be operating at human levels meaning they will have the same ability to get the joke, to be funny, to be sexy, to be romantic.

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If he tells a joke you do not find funny, don't laugh.

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"And like most sufferers of joke-itis, he had long since given up any trace of being funny, and instead deployed an endless barrage of grimace-inducing puns and lame insults".

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