• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      How is I read this wrong a joke? It’s almost inevitable that someone in any comment section feels the need to put their dyslexia on display for some odd reason. What makes this one humorous?

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        2 days ago

        Couple different layers of joke, actually.

        The first is that they didn’t actually misread $12B as $128, but saying so is a cheeky reference to how B and 8 look similar.

        The second is sort of an attempt at absurdist humor. Obviously $128 is not going to get you very far towards building a physical AI engineer, and that question violates our rational expectations in a way that some find humorous.