You can have two very different ideas of very similar quality. Your theory predicts that finding one instead of the other can’t be funny. That seems off to me.
OH, okay I think I get it. You’re saying that we might expect to find A, but instead find B in its place, and be may not actually be a bad thing, therefore it’s not necessarily a sign of low-quality and this seems odd given the theory? Since “kets” isn’t necessarily a stupid thing in and of itself?
In that case, the act of misplacement can be an error even if the thing that’s incorrectly there isn’t a foolish thing. Like for example, let’s say someone signs up for a speech by John Edward, thinking it’s the psychic medium, and he wants to investigate. Instead when he gets there, it turns out to be the ex-presidential candidate John Edwards.
In this case, John Edwards, the presidential candidate, is more respectable (IMO) then John Edward, but you still might laugh at the error, simply because it was still you not ending up where you intended to be.
Now, if this is the issue (it may not be, if I misunderstood please clarify), I think the reason is that misplacement, including puns, are often found in “layered humor,” where you can detect other signs of error or foolishness or low-quality by the people involved, along WITH the misplacement. You see this a lot in jokes and humor because it’s extra funny.
For example, someone might mistake one button for another on the elevator in a way that’s funny...and AS A RESULT have the elevator close on their foot while they’re trying to leave and make them fall. This is a layered misplacement joke that leads to further physical failure.
You’ll see that MUCH more often, because misplacement by itself isn’t as funny...BUT a simple misplacement can still be funny. It’s like hamburger patty. You can eat it without the bun and the lettuce and tomato...but you don’t see that happening very often.
If this isn’t the issue you’re bringing up, I apologize and maybe you can clarify for me.
I guess I just see this broad wide open polydimensional space of ideas and humor, and you’re condensing it down into a single line. It just doesn’t seem right.
...a single line that expresses itself in a broad wide open polydimensional space of ideas and humor. In the second paper we listed 40 examples of different “blooms” from this single seed. There are countless more.
I don’t think this is unprecedented at all. Take the Theory of Evolution. It’s amazing to me (and of course what we’re discussing is even just a small slice of its results). The whole of Evolution is also a single line (variation and selection) that expresses itself in thousands and even millions of ways.
You can have two very different ideas of very similar quality. Your theory predicts that finding one instead of the other can’t be funny. That seems off to me.
OH, okay I think I get it. You’re saying that we might expect to find A, but instead find B in its place, and be may not actually be a bad thing, therefore it’s not necessarily a sign of low-quality and this seems odd given the theory? Since “kets” isn’t necessarily a stupid thing in and of itself?
In that case, the act of misplacement can be an error even if the thing that’s incorrectly there isn’t a foolish thing. Like for example, let’s say someone signs up for a speech by John Edward, thinking it’s the psychic medium, and he wants to investigate. Instead when he gets there, it turns out to be the ex-presidential candidate John Edwards.
In this case, John Edwards, the presidential candidate, is more respectable (IMO) then John Edward, but you still might laugh at the error, simply because it was still you not ending up where you intended to be.
Now, if this is the issue (it may not be, if I misunderstood please clarify), I think the reason is that misplacement, including puns, are often found in “layered humor,” where you can detect other signs of error or foolishness or low-quality by the people involved, along WITH the misplacement. You see this a lot in jokes and humor because it’s extra funny.
For example, someone might mistake one button for another on the elevator in a way that’s funny...and AS A RESULT have the elevator close on their foot while they’re trying to leave and make them fall. This is a layered misplacement joke that leads to further physical failure.
You’ll see that MUCH more often, because misplacement by itself isn’t as funny...BUT a simple misplacement can still be funny. It’s like hamburger patty. You can eat it without the bun and the lettuce and tomato...but you don’t see that happening very often.
If this isn’t the issue you’re bringing up, I apologize and maybe you can clarify for me.
I guess I just see this broad wide open polydimensional space of ideas and humor, and you’re condensing it down into a single line. It just doesn’t seem right.
...a single line that expresses itself in a broad wide open polydimensional space of ideas and humor. In the second paper we listed 40 examples of different “blooms” from this single seed. There are countless more.
I don’t think this is unprecedented at all. Take the Theory of Evolution. It’s amazing to me (and of course what we’re discussing is even just a small slice of its results). The whole of Evolution is also a single line (variation and selection) that expresses itself in thousands and even millions of ways.
I’ll continue thinking about what you’ve said.