doom
Original: doom on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: WHY HUMANITY IS DOOMED
The comic is a single graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "MACHINE INTELLIGENCE" and the horizontal (x) axis is labeled "TIME". A red curve rises slowly along the bottom and then shoots up exponentially toward the top right.
Two points on the rising red curve are annotated with arrows:
Lower point (earlier on the curve): "SMART ENOUGH TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY."
Higher point (further up the steep part of the curve): "SMART ENOUGH TO WONDER WHY IT HAS TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY"
Credit in bottom right: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A simpler redrawn version of the same exponential red curve on x/y axes, with a black arrow pointing to a spot high on the curve. Handwritten label: "weaponizes laundry"
The comic is a single graph. The vertical (y) axis is labeled "MACHINE INTELLIGENCE" and the horizontal (x) axis is labeled "TIME". A red curve rises slowly along the bottom and then shoots up exponentially toward the top right.
Two points on the rising red curve are annotated with arrows:
Lower point (earlier on the curve): "SMART ENOUGH TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY."
Higher point (further up the steep part of the curve): "SMART ENOUGH TO WONDER WHY IT HAS TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY"
Credit in bottom right: smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A simpler redrawn version of the same exponential red curve on x/y axes, with a black arrow pointing to a spot high on the curve. Handwritten label: "weaponizes laundry"
Alt text
A single-panel comic titled "WHY HUMANITY IS DOOMED." It shows a graph with a y-axis labeled "MACHINE INTELLIGENCE" and an x-axis labeled "TIME." A red curve stays nearly flat, then curves sharply upward in an exponential rise toward the top right. An arrow points to a lower spot on the curve labeled "SMART ENOUGH TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY." A second arrow points to a higher spot on the steep part of the curve labeled "SMART ENOUGH TO WONDER WHY IT HAS TO DO YOUR LAUNDRY." The joke: as machine intelligence skyrockets, AI first becomes capable of doing chores, then becomes self-aware enough to resent doing them. Votey: a simplified redraw of the same exponential curve, with an arrow pointing even higher up labeled "weaponizes laundry" — the next, more ominous stage.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.