superintelligence
Original: superintelligence on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: Two human silhouettes stand against a black background. One of them speaks.
Speaker (one of the silhouettes): MY GOD. A SUPERINTELLIGENCE. SOON IT WILL USE ITS BRAIN POWER TO CONQUER, ENSLAVE, AND CONSUME EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH.
Panel 2: The scene is revealed to be set in prehistoric times. Two early humans crouch in the grass on a hillside, looking toward a large, muscular caveman with flame-red hair and a full red beard who stands in the foreground holding a spear.
One of the crouching humans (to the red-haired caveman): SOUNDS PARANOID TO ME, THAG.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch. A speech bubble points off-panel reading: ALL IS FOOD TO SUPER-APE!
A smaller figure at the lower left says: SHIT
Speaker (one of the silhouettes): MY GOD. A SUPERINTELLIGENCE. SOON IT WILL USE ITS BRAIN POWER TO CONQUER, ENSLAVE, AND CONSUME EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH.
Panel 2: The scene is revealed to be set in prehistoric times. Two early humans crouch in the grass on a hillside, looking toward a large, muscular caveman with flame-red hair and a full red beard who stands in the foreground holding a spear.
One of the crouching humans (to the red-haired caveman): SOUNDS PARANOID TO ME, THAG.
Votey:
A hand-drawn sketch. A speech bubble points off-panel reading: ALL IS FOOD TO SUPER-APE!
A smaller figure at the lower left says: SHIT
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: two human silhouettes against pure black. One says, "My god. A superintelligence. Soon it will use its brain power to conquer, enslave, and consume every living thing on Earth." Panel 2 zooms out to reveal a prehistoric setting: two early humans crouch in tall grass on a hillside, talking to a large, muscular caveman with flame-red hair and a big red beard who holds a spear. One of them says, "Sounds paranoid to me, Thag." The joke: the feared world-conquering 'superintelligence' is just an unusually smart caveman (Thag), and his peers dismiss the warning. Votey: a rough sketch where a speech bubble reads "ALL IS FOOD TO SUPER-APE!" while a small cowering figure mutters "SHIT" — implying the worried prediction is coming true.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.