genetic-programming
Original: genetic-programming on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (brown hair): Sometimes I think I'm just a machine fulfilling programming. All of my actions can be easily tied to my evolutionary history.
Panel 2:
Woman: I like cake because it's high calorie and easily digestible. I like looking pretty girls because I'm evaluating them as potential mates. I like praise from peers because it signals strong social status.
Man (off-panel/partner): Your feelings are stupid.
Panel 3:
Woman: Out of interest, isn't it possible atomic configurations did a thing called "you" came into existence, with a whole dashboard of easily-pressable pleasure buttons?
Man: And what do you do? Complain that the dashboard doesn't also have a two-way radio to god.
Panel 4:
Woman: Can't you disagree politely?
Man: I don't want to lose my rank in our pecking order.
Votey:
Woman (drawn line-art, arm raised): Kneel before Tina!
(A man's face looks on with a flat, unimpressed expression.)
Woman (brown hair): Sometimes I think I'm just a machine fulfilling programming. All of my actions can be easily tied to my evolutionary history.
Panel 2:
Woman: I like cake because it's high calorie and easily digestible. I like looking pretty girls because I'm evaluating them as potential mates. I like praise from peers because it signals strong social status.
Man (off-panel/partner): Your feelings are stupid.
Panel 3:
Woman: Out of interest, isn't it possible atomic configurations did a thing called "you" came into existence, with a whole dashboard of easily-pressable pleasure buttons?
Man: And what do you do? Complain that the dashboard doesn't also have a two-way radio to god.
Panel 4:
Woman: Can't you disagree politely?
Man: I don't want to lose my rank in our pecking order.
Votey:
Woman (drawn line-art, arm raised): Kneel before Tina!
(A man's face looks on with a flat, unimpressed expression.)
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A brown-haired woman muses to her partner about feeling like a machine fulfilling its evolutionary programming. She explains she likes cake (high calorie), finds people attractive (mate evaluation), and enjoys praise (social status signaling). Her partner bluntly replies, "Your feelings are stupid." She counters that atomic configurations assembled a "you" with a dashboard of pleasure buttons; he retorts that she just complains the dashboard lacks a two-way radio to god. She asks, "Can't you disagree politely?" and he answers, "I don't want to lose my rank in our pecking order." Votey: a loose ink sketch of a woman with her arm raised triumphantly declaring "Kneel before Tina!" while a man's face looks on with a flat, unamused expression.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.