good-4
Original: good-4 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A red robot with a rectangular head and a single round eye gestures while speaking.
Robot: They hate themselves because they're destroying themselves. But if they're so hateable, destroying themselves is a good thing. But if they're doing a good thing, they shouldn't hate themselves for it. But then they're not hateable, so it's bad they're destroying themselves.
Caption (below panel): Among robots of the future, this will be referred to as the Human Paradox.
Votey:
A different robot (a boxy white/gray robot head with a round eye and a small mouth) speaks.
Robot: It's too bad they're all gray goo, or we could ask them about it.
A red robot with a rectangular head and a single round eye gestures while speaking.
Robot: They hate themselves because they're destroying themselves. But if they're so hateable, destroying themselves is a good thing. But if they're doing a good thing, they shouldn't hate themselves for it. But then they're not hateable, so it's bad they're destroying themselves.
Caption (below panel): Among robots of the future, this will be referred to as the Human Paradox.
Votey:
A different robot (a boxy white/gray robot head with a round eye and a small mouth) speaks.
Robot: It's too bad they're all gray goo, or we could ask them about it.
Alt text
A red robot with a single round eye gestures as it works through a tangled circular argument: humans hate themselves for destroying themselves, but if they're hateable then self-destruction is good, but doing good means they shouldn't hate themselves, which makes them not hateable, which makes their self-destruction bad again. A caption beneath the panel reads that among robots of the future this will be called "the Human Paradox." Votey: a boxy gray robot head with a round eye remarks, "It's too bad they're all gray goo, or we could ask them about it."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.