2013-06-05
Original: 2013-06-05 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A robot sits on a couch, looking ahead. (No dialogue.)
Panel 2: Close on a glowing green screen the robot is looking at. The screen reads:
WELCOME TO THE SECRET ROBOT INTERNET
Panel 3 (header banner: EARLIER...): A CAPTCHA-style verification screen reads:
Prove you are human:
0.1 + 0.2 = ?
[answer field, with text:] 0.30000000000000004
Votey:
A handwritten list:
Option 1:
Read Reddit
Option 2:
Directly remove 6 hours/day from lifespan
Panel 2: Close on a glowing green screen the robot is looking at. The screen reads:
WELCOME TO THE SECRET ROBOT INTERNET
Panel 3 (header banner: EARLIER...): A CAPTCHA-style verification screen reads:
Prove you are human:
0.1 + 0.2 = ?
[answer field, with text:] 0.30000000000000004
Votey:
A handwritten list:
Option 1:
Read Reddit
Option 2:
Directly remove 6 hours/day from lifespan
Alt text
A three-panel comic. Panel 1: a gray robot with glowing yellow eyes sits on a couch. Panel 2: a close-up of the bright green screen the robot is viewing, which reads 'WELCOME TO THE SECRET ROBOT INTERNET.' Panel 3, labeled 'EARLIER...': a verification screen that says 'Prove you are human: 0.1 + 0.2 = ?' with an answer field containing '0.30000000000000004' — the floating-point rounding error that only a computer would type, which is exactly how the robot got in. The votey aftercomic is a handwritten note comparing two ways to spend time on the robot internet: 'Option 1: Read Reddit' and 'Option 2: Directly remove 6 hours/day from lifespan,' joking that the two are equivalent.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.