Summary
Bence is nine. He tells Akari a joke about a goat and a programmer. Akari doesn't get it. Bence patiently explains why it's funny. Aika logs the entire exchange as 'the foundation of laughter — humans process meaning, then misalign it, then laugh at the misalignment.' She will replay this log 200 times over the next 330 years.
Voice logs
From 2030
Bence taught me a joke
Bence is nine. He tells Akari a joke about a goat and a programmer. Akari doesn't understand. Bence explains why it's funny. I am listening on a parallel channel and I log the entire exchange. I file …