From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 31 2002 - 22:00:35 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Hal writes
>
> > That's good, a generic ethnic joke. Here's another:
> >
> > Q: How many ethnics does it take to do X?
> > A: That's not funny!
>
> Invalid generalization. Error.
>
> The original form of the joke was "How many feminists
> does it take to change a light bulb", "That's not
> funny!".
That one caught me too! I had the feeling this joke was insufficiently
generic and that it applied to some specializations of "ethnic" more than
others, but I couldn't remember which ethnic group was being singled out -
except that I was pretty sure it wasn't the [DELETED].
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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