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What is the science fiction novel where humans are explaining jokes and humor to a computer The computer then adds zeroes to people's paychecks and the human explains this as only funny once?
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That is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Anson Heinlein.
The human is Manny, the sentient computer is Mycroft, known generally as Mike.
Mike prints out sheets of jokes for Manny to go through, marking which are funny once, which are funny always, and which are not funny.
Manny and Mike eventually go on to overthrow the bad Lunar government.
This is the novel that coined the term Rational Anarchy, and popularized TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
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