How do we know when someone is joking/ messing around/ being ironic?
In real life, we have all sorts of clues- context!
A new difficulty is AI.

A public sevice for the woke management team of a retail company closing its stores due to high levels of theft and violence.


@pmarca Very cool sir! Totally not pathetic and remarkably uncool that this is the best thing you (a billionaire) have to do on a Saturday night sir!

@pmarca @edzitron trying to imagine having billions dollars and nothing better to do on a saturday night this, p bleak. Go yachting around hawaii!
The inclusion of “try again” makes it clear that it is AI but so does the format.
Sometimes, we know what the person has said and done- and believes. On social media, there’s no history.

I'm getting the feeling that a few people misunderstood the purpose of this question...

Sam Harris @SamHarrisOrg

Got this in an email from the American Physical Society. Apparently physicists look like ANYONE! Oops.. one conspicuous group seems to be missing....


Twitter Workers Worried Elon Musk Will Turn Their Free Speech Platform Into Platform That Allows Free Speech


Not the onion. I repeat NOT TheOnion. Bloomberg Wealth even getting in on the action.
This holiday might be a little awkward for people who told their families to buy crypto last year bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @wealth
https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-is-giving-away-8-3-trillion-in-nfts-1849809203