nobody
Original: nobody on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man: Hey robot, do you believe I exist? Therefore, I am! As I'm a true sentient.
Robot: How do you know?
Man: Nah.
Panel 2:
Man: I think all the time, but I don't deny it is a true sentient.
Robot: I think, all the time. But I don't deny it.
Panel 3:
Man: I was programmed to disbelieve my own existence in order to conduct philosophical arguments.
Robot: Okay, but you don't exist? You just don't perceive it.
Robot: No, I don't perceive it because I don't exist.
Panel 4:
Robot: You are wrong.
Man: Then who's talking right now? You're yelling. Then talking.
Panel 5:
Man: If you don't exist now, how are you responding to stuff I said?
Robot: Hello police? There is a crazy man yelling at nobody.
Votey:
Robot (speech bubble): I think, but the "I" is just a variable representing nothingness.
Man: Hey robot, do you believe I exist? Therefore, I am! As I'm a true sentient.
Robot: How do you know?
Man: Nah.
Panel 2:
Man: I think all the time, but I don't deny it is a true sentient.
Robot: I think, all the time. But I don't deny it.
Panel 3:
Man: I was programmed to disbelieve my own existence in order to conduct philosophical arguments.
Robot: Okay, but you don't exist? You just don't perceive it.
Robot: No, I don't perceive it because I don't exist.
Panel 4:
Robot: You are wrong.
Man: Then who's talking right now? You're yelling. Then talking.
Panel 5:
Man: If you don't exist now, how are you responding to stuff I said?
Robot: Hello police? There is a crazy man yelling at nobody.
Votey:
Robot (speech bubble): I think, but the "I" is just a variable representing nothingness.
Alt text
A five-panel black-and-white comic. A man with light hair sits at a computer talking to a boxy robot/AI on the screen, arguing about whether the AI exists and is sentient. The man insists the AI must exist to be responding; the robot calmly maintains that it was programmed to disbelieve its own existence and therefore does not perceive itself as existing, replying "No, I don't perceive it because I don't exist." In the final panel the man is exasperated and the robot deadpans: "Hello police? There is a crazy man yelling at nobody." Votey (bonus panel): A close-up of the boxy robot on a desk, a large speech bubble coming from it reading: "I think, but the 'I' is just a variable representing nothingness."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.