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Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-i'm-sure-that-was-real-hard dept.

LibertarianWackJob writes "Researchers have found the section of the human brain that is responsible for understanding sarcasm. " I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful.

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  1. Not yet, I guess... by PalmMP3 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "I'm sure the comments on this story will be incredibly insightful."

    Am I the only one who finds it amusing that so far, not a single comment has been moderated "Insightful"?

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  2. Re:This goes hand-in-hand with... by MarkGriz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously, though, have you ever made a sarcastic comment to a gullible person?

    Have you ever posted on Slashdot, and been moderated OFFTOPIC?

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  3. Re:cultural gap by kraut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe his jokes just weren't funny?

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  4. Re:Finally! by Hatta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heh I have that problem too. The thing I don't get about the article is the connection of sarcasm to empathy. I mean I'm a very sarcastic person, and sometimes I unknowingly hurt someones feelings with it. If sarcasm required lots of empathy, I should be able to tell when I've crossed the line, right?

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  5. Sarcasm trips up Google's ad-server by DanceBee · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here's a nut even the collective mind of Google has been unable to crack: Machine recognition of sarcasm.

    Take a look at the Huh? Corp site, and notice the counterpoint between the devilishly satirical site content and the dead-serious Google ads.

    One cannot underestimate the serious menace posed to contextual ad networks by the unregulated use of sarcasm by ad-network partner sites.

    As soon as I finish typing up this comment I plan to file for a provisional patent on "An Automated Method of Determining Sarcasm Content by Using a Naive Baysian Classifier Trained on Slashdot Comments."