tiny-2
Original: tiny-2 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bald man with glasses gestures while speaking to a woman with red hair, who sits beside what appears to be a framed picture of a maze-like grid pattern.
Man: All images appear to make sense until you zoom into the fine details. That's how you know they weren't real, but were designed by a machine. Well, I have two words for you: quantum mechanics.
Caption (below panel): The fact that nothing makes sense on tiny scales is the best available proof of the simulation hypothesis.
Votey:
A disembodied head (line-art face) speaks.
Speaker: I expect quantum mechanics to go away once the universe gets more training data.
A bald man with glasses gestures while speaking to a woman with red hair, who sits beside what appears to be a framed picture of a maze-like grid pattern.
Man: All images appear to make sense until you zoom into the fine details. That's how you know they weren't real, but were designed by a machine. Well, I have two words for you: quantum mechanics.
Caption (below panel): The fact that nothing makes sense on tiny scales is the best available proof of the simulation hypothesis.
Votey:
A disembodied head (line-art face) speaks.
Speaker: I expect quantum mechanics to go away once the universe gets more training data.
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic about the simulation hypothesis. In the main panel, a bald man with glasses gestures toward a red-haired woman seated beside a framed maze-like grid image. He says: "All images appear to make sense until you zoom into the fine details. That's how you know they weren't real, but were designed by a machine. Well, I have two words for you: quantum mechanics." A caption beneath reads: "The fact that nothing makes sense on tiny scales is the best available proof of the simulation hypothesis." The joke compares the weirdness of quantum physics at small scales to the visual glitches AI image generators produce in fine detail. The votey (a small bonus panel) shows a simple line-art floating head saying: "I expect quantum mechanics to go away once the universe gets more training data" — extending the gag by treating reality as an AI model that will improve with more data.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.