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I'm curious as to why the dialogue is so bad. What AI is this using? When I ask ChatGPT to write a scene, the results are usually somewhat funny: INT. JERRY'S CAR - DAY Jerry and George are driving down the road, with Jerry behind the wheel. Jerry: (gazing at the cup holder) This car is such a piece of junk, it doesn't even have a proper cup holder. George: What are you talking about? It has a cup holder right there!…
This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans aft…
There was a skit just now where they talked about going to a comedy show. Of course the scene cut and they didn't actually go. Except three skits later they talked about "the comedy show we just went to". The singularity is now.
I have to confess I don’t really understand the appeal here. It’s not funny nor particularly entertaining (to me of course). Obviously reading the comments I’m in the minority here.
If you don't find the original Seinfeld funny, then you won't find this funny too, and that's ok. It is definitely a type of humor that you gotta be attuned to and/or like it already, with many people never getting around to liking it.
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The chat collectively playing in to the nonsense is all part of the experience.
Yep, it's the TV equivalent of Blaseball, or Dwarf Fortress(DF). Given a sufficiently complex generator of event strips, framing[1] becomes a social activity. Blaseball saw the production of wikis[2], songs[3], and announcer recap[4] framings. Likewise, DF wouldn't be the same without Boatmurdered[5] or any of the other story tellings that followed suit. Conspiracy theorists follow the same pattern but applied to new…
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The act of people who weren't around to watch Seinfeld when it originally aired complaining that it's just so overdone, unfunny, unoriginal, tired, cliched, or just like other shows, is called the "Seinfeld is Unfunny" trope. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn... >"I don't know what the big deal with Hamlet is. It's just one famous saying after another, strung together by a moldy old plot."…
Thanks for sharing. I had no idea there was a term for it. As I reflect, I can see that with a lot of shows I thought were amazing. Humour evolves in such a fascinating way that a killer joke, even if it’s not context specific to an era, can stop being funny. I showed my wife a bunch of flash videos from my teenage years. She just stared and I slowly came to realize: they’re just not funny anymore. I remember thinkin…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27458494
Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious. Marvin Minsky. AI memo No. 603. November, 1980.
https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt
>JOKES and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious
>Marvin Minsky, MIT
>Abstract: Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the different forms of humor can be seen as much more similar, once we recognize the importance of knowledge about knowledge and, particularly, aspects of thinking concerned with recognizing and suppressing bugs -- ineffective or destructive thought processes. When seen in this light, much humor that at first seems pointless, or mysterious, becomes more understandable.
>Introduction
>A gentleman entered a pastry-cook's shop and ordered a cake; but he soon brought it back and asked for a glass of liqueur instead. He drank it and began to leave without having paid. The proprietor detained him. "You've not paid for the liqueur." "But I gave you the cake in exchange for it." "You didn't pay for that either." "But I hadn't eaten it". --- from Freud (1905).
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>In the 1912 edition Freud, still perplexed about the purpose of nonsense, recounts a joke of this form: {11}
>"A man at the dinner table dipped his hands in the mayonnaise and then ran them through his hair. When his neighbor looked astonished, the man apologized: "I'm so sorry. I thought it was spinach."
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faking a real voice could be construed as fraud unless they have prior permission from the actor. Their likeness cannot just be copied and used. At the very least, trademark infringement?
Then why are impersonators legal?
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Wait until we have multilayered AI models. One to generate the 3d scene. One for the lighting. Three for cameras. One for each actor acting out the given script along with a set amount of "improvising" and "randomness", one to generate background royalty free music based on the emotional context of the scene, one to serve as a Foley artist for environment sounds. The equivalent computer power of a medium sized bitcoi…
> One to generate the 3d scene. One for the lighting. Three for cameras. One for each actor acting out the given script along with a set amount of "improvising" and "randomness", one to generate background royalty free music based on the emotional context of the scene, one to serve as a Foley artist for environment sounds. One for each hand to maintain the appropriate number of fingers.
'Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow"'
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Seinfeld was the first good sitcom. That's such a silly thing to say I'll assume it's intentionally provocative and not intended to be truthful rather than representing genuine ignorance. But for anybody young enough/daft enough to take it seriously, check out Fawlty Towers Young Ones Blackadder Yes Minister Dad's Army Etc Etc That's just a quick UK list off the top of my head, I'll leave others to correct the parent…
The IT Crowd!
This is probably the first time I've encountered something where "It's so bad that it's good" makes sense to me. I could not stop laughing. The exterior shot with the Seinfeld-inspired music. The laugh track at inappropriate times. They talk about going to a sushi restaurant, and when they've finally agreed to go, they sit down and don't go anywhere. This is like the alien scientists who want to bring back humans aft…