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Neither humans nor LLMs are currently equipped with separate sarcasm-awareness modes so telling someone to engage theirs can only be…ohh


that's so beyond obviously a sarcastic remark. In that regard I'd consider a vast majority of the humans totally capable of detecting dead pan sarcasm both in spoken and written speech.


Isn’t there a well known internet adage that speaks to this?

Do you remember what it is?


Cunningham's law


What? No it's not, it's ...

Hang on a sec... you sly devil, you!

Not falling for that one. Hmmmpphhh.


Cunningham himself even claims it was a misquote, and that he never suggested such a thing.


“Shouting incorrect directions in Ironforge” predates Cunningham by several years in any case.




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