experience-2
Original: experience-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with dark hair: Suppose you could get into an experience machine — where you would experience a life of constraint. You wouldn't know that you were inside it, and it would be false. Would you go in?
Person with light curly hair: Nah.
Panel 2:
Person with light curly hair: But I would be really happy if I knew someone choosing me in.
Panel 3:
Person with light curly hair: If I just got in, it'd be fun. But there'd always be a part of me that felt like it was betraying these celebrities-in-later-thresholds. I'd make the coward's choice.
Panel 4:
Person with light curly hair: If someone asked me, do it. Hey, so it goes. I guess it'd be better to play a sex hallet each. So it's hard and make the best of it.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: You want an ideal life experience. But also zero responsibility for your choices.
Panel 6:
Person with light curly hair (smiling): Yes, yeah! Both of them at the same time.
Votey:
Person with light curly hair (lying down, gazing upward): I think I could handle 3 epistemologies at the same time.
Woman with dark hair: Suppose you could get into an experience machine — where you would experience a life of constraint. You wouldn't know that you were inside it, and it would be false. Would you go in?
Person with light curly hair: Nah.
Panel 2:
Person with light curly hair: But I would be really happy if I knew someone choosing me in.
Panel 3:
Person with light curly hair: If I just got in, it'd be fun. But there'd always be a part of me that felt like it was betraying these celebrities-in-later-thresholds. I'd make the coward's choice.
Panel 4:
Person with light curly hair: If someone asked me, do it. Hey, so it goes. I guess it'd be better to play a sex hallet each. So it's hard and make the best of it.
Panel 5:
Woman with dark hair: You want an ideal life experience. But also zero responsibility for your choices.
Panel 6:
Person with light curly hair (smiling): Yes, yeah! Both of them at the same time.
Votey:
Person with light curly hair (lying down, gazing upward): I think I could handle 3 epistemologies at the same time.
Alt text
A six-panel black-and-white comic. A woman with dark hair poses a philosophy thought experiment to a person with light curly hair: would you enter an "experience machine" that gives you a constrained, false life you'd never know was fake? The curly-haired person says "Nah," but then waffles through several panels — they'd be happy if someone chose to put them in, it would be fun but they'd feel like a coward and a betrayer, and they offer rambling justifications. The woman summarizes the contradiction: "You want an ideal life experience, but also zero responsibility for your choices." The curly-haired person grins and says "Yes, yeah! Both of them at the same time." Votey: a close-up of the curly-haired person lying down and gazing upward, musing "I think I could handle 3 epistemologies at the same time."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.