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Original: p on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (in profile, hands clasped as if praying): GOD, DOES P=NP?
God (voice from a glowing bubble): HELL NO.
Panel 2:
Man: WHY?
God: EVE ATE THE FRUIT.
Panel 3:
Man (looking shocked): YOU REDESIGNED THE STRUCTURE OF MATHEMATICS ITSELF BECAUSE A TALKING SNAKE CONVINCED A LADY TO EAT AN APPLE?
God (lightning-edged bubble): AND EVER AFTER SHALL IT BE REALLY HARD TO PLAN A LONG DELIVERY ROUTE!
Votey:
God (speech bubble, no character shown): YOU CAN GET SOME PRETTY GOOD HEURISTICS GOING, THOUGH.
Man (in profile, hands clasped as if praying): GOD, DOES P=NP?
God (voice from a glowing bubble): HELL NO.
Panel 2:
Man: WHY?
God: EVE ATE THE FRUIT.
Panel 3:
Man (looking shocked): YOU REDESIGNED THE STRUCTURE OF MATHEMATICS ITSELF BECAUSE A TALKING SNAKE CONVINCED A LADY TO EAT AN APPLE?
God (lightning-edged bubble): AND EVER AFTER SHALL IT BE REALLY HARD TO PLAN A LONG DELIVERY ROUTE!
Votey:
God (speech bubble, no character shown): YOU CAN GET SOME PRETTY GOOD HEURISTICS GOING, THOUGH.
Alt text
A four-panel comic in which a bare-shouldered man speaks with God, whose voice comes from glowing speech bubbles. Panel 1: the man, hands clasped, asks "God, does P=NP?" God answers "Hell no." Panel 2: the man asks "Why?" God replies "Eve ate the fruit." Panel 3: the man looks stunned and says "You redesigned the structure of mathematics itself because a talking snake convinced a lady to eat an apple?" God, now speaking from a jagged, lightning-ringed bubble, declares "And ever after shall it be really hard to plan a long delivery route!" (a reference to NP-hard problems like the traveling salesman / delivery routing). Votey aftercomic: a lone speech bubble, no character shown, as God adds "You can get some pretty good heuristics going, though."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.