Stewart Lee
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So I think it becomes a sort of frustration to him that he just isn't that kind of person.
So he tries to talk a lot about how he is.
He was explaining to Joe Rogan the other day that he's invented an AI which will do roasts, you know, with the American tradition of the roast.
Yes.
But this AI will...
You will come into a room and the AI will scan you and work out that you're bold or something.
And then it will start doing insults to you.
And you can set it, Musk was explaining, to different levels of vulgarity.
So he understands humor as a kind of system.
And he thinks its purpose is to cause offense and to disrupt.
And they're all like this, the tech guys.
It's all about disruption and shaking us out of our complacency.
So I don't think he really understands it.
I think on some level he understands that he doesn't understand it.
And that frustrates him.
So it's important for him to want to be seen as funny.
Like calling the bloke that was trying to save those kids from the well, from the cave, a pedo.
It's just pointless.
That's just like their... Pedo guy.
Pedo guy.