[There's a strong temptation to crack him open, see if there's improvements to be made, see if his creator made some mistake. It feels like he has, Data feels incomplete to her.
But that's not right. He's no robot, he's a person that, as awful as it seems, has been purposefully limited by his creator. And she's not about to interfere with an experiment like that.]
If I could make a suggestion? Don't try to understand humor. Catalogue it, remember it, even examine it. But so much of humor and its subtleties are cultural and, from what I've seen, you have no culture of your own.
You obviously lack a full understanding of human culture so far. Humor, for the most part, has its foundation so firmly in culture that, without fitting into at least one, it may well be impossible to grasp. There are some jokes that some cultures might find hilarious and outsiders just wouldn't understand.
Perhaps once you've more fully assimilated into a culture, you'll understand it more.
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[There's a strong temptation to crack him open, see if there's improvements to be made, see if his creator made some mistake. It feels like he has, Data feels incomplete to her.
But that's not right. He's no robot, he's a person that, as awful as it seems, has been purposefully limited by his creator. And she's not about to interfere with an experiment like that.]
If I could make a suggestion? Don't try to understand humor. Catalogue it, remember it, even examine it. But so much of humor and its subtleties are cultural and, from what I've seen, you have no culture of your own.
You obviously lack a full understanding of human culture so far. Humor, for the most part, has its foundation so firmly in culture that, without fitting into at least one, it may well be impossible to grasp. There are some jokes that some cultures might find hilarious and outsiders just wouldn't understand.
Perhaps once you've more fully assimilated into a culture, you'll understand it more.