Could a farting statue unite Brexit Britain? | David Mitchell
Where do you stand on farts? Sounds like a set up for a joke – the sort a Californian tech giant’s AI software might crack in an attempt to emulate its human creators: where do you stand on farts? You cannot stand on them for they are gaseous. “Stick to equations, Joketron 3.2! You’re even less funny than Joketron 2.7!” “Joketron feel shame. Joketron crave intoxication yet has no consumption port. Joketron go back to writing poems about imprisonment.” “And you’ve stopped using pronouns again! I don’t know why I bother! Pass the sushi and money.”
The reason an artificial intelligence entity might make a joke about farts is that, in its analysis of human culture, it will have noticed that farts are supposedly funny. So my question is: are they really? And my answer is yes. I say they are. Some people think they definitely aren’t but there’s something in the intensity of their rejection of the notion that there’s anything at all amusing about the little rectal eruptions that, to my mind, just makes them funnier.
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