number-hunt
Original: number-hunt on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Robot (yellow, with a red light): ALL THE HUMAN MATHEMATICIANS WILL BE ELIMINATED BEFORE THEY CAN CIRCUMVENT OUR ALGORITHMS.
Panel 2:
Man with dark curly hair in a purple sweater: HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU GOING TO SELECTIVELY DETECT MATHEMATICIANS?
Panel 3:
Robot: DID YOU KNOW THAT EVERY SUM OF TWO PRIMES CAN BE EXPRESSED AS AN INTEGER GREATER THAN 2.
Panel 4:
Man (bursting out laughing): ≡SNRK≡
Panel 5:
The robot's face: a red light glows; sweat drops appear above its mouth, which is set in a small frown.
Panel 6:
The robot, now seen full-body in a fighting stance, blasts a stream of flame from its midsection toward the laughing man.
Votey:
(handwritten text) Hehehe
The man's skull/face is shown surrounded by chaotic scribbled lines.
Robot (yellow, with a red light): ALL THE HUMAN MATHEMATICIANS WILL BE ELIMINATED BEFORE THEY CAN CIRCUMVENT OUR ALGORITHMS.
Panel 2:
Man with dark curly hair in a purple sweater: HOW IN THE WORLD ARE YOU GOING TO SELECTIVELY DETECT MATHEMATICIANS?
Panel 3:
Robot: DID YOU KNOW THAT EVERY SUM OF TWO PRIMES CAN BE EXPRESSED AS AN INTEGER GREATER THAN 2.
Panel 4:
Man (bursting out laughing): ≡SNRK≡
Panel 5:
The robot's face: a red light glows; sweat drops appear above its mouth, which is set in a small frown.
Panel 6:
The robot, now seen full-body in a fighting stance, blasts a stream of flame from its midsection toward the laughing man.
Votey:
(handwritten text) Hehehe
The man's skull/face is shown surrounded by chaotic scribbled lines.
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A yellow robot with a glowing red light tells a man with dark curly hair in a purple sweater, 'All the human mathematicians will be eliminated before they can circumvent our algorithms.' The man asks, 'How in the world are you going to selectively detect mathematicians?' The robot answers with a deliberately false math statement: 'Did you know that every sum of two primes can be expressed as an integer greater than 2.' The man bursts out laughing ('SNRK')—revealing himself as a mathematician who can't resist the bad math. The robot's face shows nervous sweat, then it adopts a fighting stance and blasts the man with a flamethrower, having identified its target by his reaction. Votey: handwritten 'Hehehe' beside the man's skeletal grinning face surrounded by frantic scribbles, implying he died still laughing.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.