A Call For Humor!

[MatrixS2000]

Idk. Presumably some are trying to be the next MrBeast, who has earned a load of dough optimizing videos for the algorithm, i.e. making them maximally attention seekey/getty. In the country where I live making a load of dough by gaming some system or other like that is not typically described as dumb.

I had to look up what MrBeast does since I didn’t know him. I think the key distinction is this: making money (or gaming the algorithm) doesn’t automatically mean the choices are intelligent. It just means they’re good at what the platform rewards.

For example, I am a fan of American football and some of those players make incredible amounts of money because they’re extremely talented, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ‘smart’. Having money, or even the ability to earn it, doesn’t mean someone is intelligent and you can see that in some of the choices that get some of those players in trouble with the law, etc.

But anyway, this is drifting more into a psychological/philosophical discussion than a humorous discussion…so getting back on track:

 

[MatrixS2000]

Cats are not funny.
It had to be said.

 

[Ropeburn]

 

[Multicore]

But that might be too pointed. Most of the audience would not understand it.

I know, but I'm getting tired of the condescension in all these arent-other-people-so-stupid jokes so I was in the mood to throw it back at them. Especially after @Sir Sanders Zingmore did such a fine job of demonstrating a skewed distribution.

 

[Multicore]

I had to look up what MrBeast does since I didn’t know him. I think the key distinction is this: making money (or gaming the algorithm) doesn’t automatically mean the choices are intelligent. It just means they’re good at what the platform rewards.

For example, I am a fan of American football and some of those players make incredible amounts of money because they’re extremely talented, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ‘smart’. Having money, or even the ability to earn it, doesn’t mean someone is intelligent and you can see that in some of the choices that get some of those players in trouble with the law, etc.

But anyway, this is drifting more into a psychological/philosophical discussion than a humorous discussion…so getting back on track:

Ok, then my last sentence on the topic here, I promise, is this one: Let's start another thread to discuss what it means to be intelligent or smart, how different people define it and, especially interesting to me, how they assign value to it.

 

[MatrixS2000]

I know, but I'm getting tired of the condescension in all these arent-other-people-so-stupid jokes so I was in the mood to throw it back at them.

Not my intention - this is a humour thread, please view it that way.

 

[Hapo]

But that might be too pointed. Most of the audience would not understand it.

...they don't count...

 

[mhardy6647]

I feel like citing the Lake Wobegon Effect -- but modern opinion on Garrison Keillor runs kinda mixed, so I won't.


I will mention, yet again , though, that we used to have a cat who was grey on the average.

 

[Soundproof]

I don't mind at all if everyone else in the room are smarter than me. It just means that I have been clever.

 

[Ropeburn]

I don't mind at all if everyone else in the room are smarter than me. It just means that I have been clever.

If you're the smartest one in the room, go find a better one.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]

 

[Hapo]

 

[Soundproof]

If you're the smartest one in the room, go find a better one.

Yup. Wouldn't be signing up at ASR if you guys weren't smarter than me.

 

[Hapo]

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/elac-carina-bookshelf-speakers-satin-black/J3QHQW29RJ/sku/12053622?ref=212&loc=MarketplaceBing&msclkid=b59ed86e346e15333314b227279951a7

...my andrew jones specials ended up on best buy...LoL...

 

[snakedctr]

 

[respice finem]

Real life joke from a worldwide acknowledged manufacturer (spoilered for those who don't see it immediately)

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Spoiler

to call a product "RMA"... is this sleeping on the job, or sabotage?

 

[Hapo]

I don't mind at all if everyone else in the room is smarter than me. It just means that I have been annoying.

...fixed...

 

[MatrixS2000]

 

[Soundproof]

When you and your friends are chased by a bear, you don't have to run fast, just faster than your friends....

 

[Timcognito]