law
Original: law on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1
Woman (an aide holding a paper): Mr. President, the era of top-down policy is over. We can now use algorithms and A/B testing to pitch millions of ideas to constituents in order to suss out the most popular proposals.
Panel 2
Woman: Coming up with our own views would be inefficient, so the algorithm randomly generates policy-sounding sentences, which voters then rate by preference.
Panel 3
Woman: Thus, we have over time evolved the single policy that nobody opposes and everyone favors.
Panel 4
Woman: Throw it on the teleprompter! I'm off to my podium!
Panel 5
The President (a man with glasses, reading from a teleprompter at a podium): And therefore we must... huh. Give all birds humanoid arm attachments so it looks like they're waving.
Panel 6
Caption: [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]
(A crowd cheers ecstatically.)
Panel 7
The President (smiling slightly): Wow, there's something worse than democracy.
Votey:
A bird (toucan-like, with a large beak) stands on a wire, with one humanoid arm attached to its body, raised up as if waving.
Woman (an aide holding a paper): Mr. President, the era of top-down policy is over. We can now use algorithms and A/B testing to pitch millions of ideas to constituents in order to suss out the most popular proposals.
Panel 2
Woman: Coming up with our own views would be inefficient, so the algorithm randomly generates policy-sounding sentences, which voters then rate by preference.
Panel 3
Woman: Thus, we have over time evolved the single policy that nobody opposes and everyone favors.
Panel 4
Woman: Throw it on the teleprompter! I'm off to my podium!
Panel 5
The President (a man with glasses, reading from a teleprompter at a podium): And therefore we must... huh. Give all birds humanoid arm attachments so it looks like they're waving.
Panel 6
Caption: [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]
(A crowd cheers ecstatically.)
Panel 7
The President (smiling slightly): Wow, there's something worse than democracy.
Votey:
A bird (toucan-like, with a large beak) stands on a wire, with one humanoid arm attached to its body, raised up as if waving.
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. A woman aide tells the President that the era of top-down policy is over: algorithms and A/B testing now pitch millions of randomly generated policy-sounding sentences to voters, who rate them by preference, evolving over time the single policy that nobody opposes and everyone favors. She says coming up with their own views would be inefficient, and tells him to throw it on the teleprompter as she heads to her podium. At the podium, the bespectacled President reads it aloud: 'And therefore we must... huh. Give all birds humanoid arm attachments so it looks like they're waving.' The crowd erupts in [THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]. The President smiles and says, 'Wow, there's something worse than democracy.' Votey: a toucan-like bird stands on a wire with a single humanoid arm grafted onto it, raised as if waving.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.