preference
Original: preference on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair: I've created a new piece of software that tells me what I want.
Bearded man (off-panel, in speech bubble): That's not possible.
Panel 2:
Orange-haired man: It's easy. It looks at previous actions, then determines what my preferences are. When presented with a new situation, it instantly outputs the correct behavior.
Panel 3:
Bearded man: Behavior isn't the same as preferences, you dunce.
Panel 4:
The orange-haired man looks down at a device/phone in his hand, his expression faltering. (No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Close-up on the device screen, which reads:
Result:
Feel bad.
Say nothing.
Panel 6:
Bearded man: You okay?
Orange-haired man (smiling): Sure.
Votey:
A handwritten note in cursive reads:
Sit
crying in
a pizza
like a loser.
Man with flame-like orange hair: I've created a new piece of software that tells me what I want.
Bearded man (off-panel, in speech bubble): That's not possible.
Panel 2:
Orange-haired man: It's easy. It looks at previous actions, then determines what my preferences are. When presented with a new situation, it instantly outputs the correct behavior.
Panel 3:
Bearded man: Behavior isn't the same as preferences, you dunce.
Panel 4:
The orange-haired man looks down at a device/phone in his hand, his expression faltering. (No dialogue.)
Panel 5:
Close-up on the device screen, which reads:
Result:
Feel bad.
Say nothing.
Panel 6:
Bearded man: You okay?
Orange-haired man (smiling): Sure.
Votey:
A handwritten note in cursive reads:
Sit
crying in
a pizza
like a loser.
Alt text
A six-panel comic. A young man with flame-like orange hair proudly tells a bearded man he has created software that tells him what he wants: it looks at his previous actions, determines his preferences, and instantly outputs the correct behavior for any new situation. The bearded man scoffs, 'Behavior isn't the same as preferences, you dunce.' The orange-haired man's smile falters as he glances down at the device in his hand. A close-up shows the device screen displaying its output: 'Result: Feel bad. Say nothing.' In the final panel the bearded man asks 'You okay?' and the orange-haired man, masking the hurt with a small smile, answers 'Sure.' The joke: the software that supposedly captures his true preferences just instructs him to suppress his feelings, which he obediently does. Votey (aftercomic): a handwritten cursive note reading 'Sit crying in a pizza like a loser.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.