unreasonable
Original: unreasonable on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person: Hey, why is math so (unreasonably) effective?
God (a glowing figure): It's not!
Panel 2:
God: Look, universe, only contains one (kind of) thing. Math problem. Humans are so bad at connecting the dots that they think this as 50 trillion unrelated concepts.
Panel 3:
God: They discover that random motion is the same in a star and a petri dish and in the stock market and they freak out like some magic wizard stuff is going on, but it's just the same logic so the same math applies!
Panel 4 (left):
Person: There are whole philosophy textbooks using that one math problem and you kind of voodoo-doodoo that some things are like other things and that's written by your smartest people!
Panel 4 (right):
Person: Please stop yelling, God.
Panel 5 (red panel):
God: MATH ISN'T (unreasonably) EFFECTIVE! HUMANS ARE (unreasonably) STUPID!
Votey:
God: You know what? I'm gonna just turn the thermostat up a couple kelvins.
(A simple line-drawn human face looks up nervously.)
Person: Hey, why is math so (unreasonably) effective?
God (a glowing figure): It's not!
Panel 2:
God: Look, universe, only contains one (kind of) thing. Math problem. Humans are so bad at connecting the dots that they think this as 50 trillion unrelated concepts.
Panel 3:
God: They discover that random motion is the same in a star and a petri dish and in the stock market and they freak out like some magic wizard stuff is going on, but it's just the same logic so the same math applies!
Panel 4 (left):
Person: There are whole philosophy textbooks using that one math problem and you kind of voodoo-doodoo that some things are like other things and that's written by your smartest people!
Panel 4 (right):
Person: Please stop yelling, God.
Panel 5 (red panel):
God: MATH ISN'T (unreasonably) EFFECTIVE! HUMANS ARE (unreasonably) STUPID!
Votey:
God: You know what? I'm gonna just turn the thermostat up a couple kelvins.
(A simple line-drawn human face looks up nervously.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. A person stands talking with a glowing figure who represents God. The person asks why math is so 'unreasonably effective.' God replies 'It's not!' and explains that the universe only contains one kind of thing, a single math problem, but humans are so bad at connecting the dots that they treat it as fifty trillion unrelated concepts. God complains that when people discover the same random motion appears in a star, a petri dish, and the stock market, they freak out as if magic is happening, when it's just the same logic and the same math applying. The person notes there are whole philosophy textbooks built on this and that it's the work of humanity's smartest people, then says 'Please stop yelling, God.' In the final red panel God shouts: 'Math isn't unreasonably effective! Humans are unreasonably stupid!' In the votey aftercomic, God says 'You know what? I'm gonna just turn the thermostat up a couple kelvins,' while a small line-drawn human face looks up nervously.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.