Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalize this intelligent behavior in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.

翻译：乖讹往往引人发笑。说傻话需要聪明，而理解傻话则需要更聪明。本文厚颜无耻地尝试在智能体听笑话的案例中形式化这一智能行为——这一切都关乎信念修正、惊讶与规范的违背。