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sorry to post a shallow comment but this is a really excellent joke holy shit. well done.
by isoprophlex 5mo ago
sorry to post a shallow comment but this is a really excellent joke holy shit. well done.
- stingraycharles 5mo agoI am sorry for my ignorance, but I don’t understand the joke. What does the pope have to do with this?
- new_account_101 5mo ago[dead]
- huhkerrf 5mo agoThe Pope is selected by the College of Cardinals. The joke is a play on "cardinality."
- swyx 5mo agoalso colah was invited by the literal pope to his encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclical https://www.anthropic.com/news/chris-olah-pope-leo-encyclica...
- cheschire 5mo agoI don't believe you deserve the downvotes you're getting. Sometimes a good joke is so good that it appears shallow at first glance, but only upon reflection does the true humor show through. A shallow callout such as yours is sometimes necessary to call the reader back to it for that further reflection.
- smt88 5mo agoA few thoughts on this: - it’s against HN guidelines to comment on downvotes - comments are supposed to be substantive, further the discussion, and inspire curiosity (and I think the joke failed at all of those) - it’s not a great joke, just a shallow pun I’m guilty of often downvoting jokes on HN that are just jokes with no substance, partly because they end up causing confusion and noise, and they make the discussion less interesting. Reddit is a great place for those.