certainty
Original: certainty on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (standing in a large industrial corridor): COMPUTER, DO YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE NUCLEAR WAR IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS?
Panel 2:
Computer: I PREDICT A 58% CHANCE.
Panel 3:
Man (silhouetted in a doorway): CAN YOU INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF CERTAINTY?
Panel 4:
(No dialogue. A landscape of mushroom clouds rising over a red, fiery wasteland.)
Votey:
(No dialogue. A loosely sketched drawing of a person's face. In the upper left corner is a small framed sketch of a person with the handwritten word "Shucks" next to it.)
Man (standing in a large industrial corridor): COMPUTER, DO YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE NUCLEAR WAR IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS?
Panel 2:
Computer: I PREDICT A 58% CHANCE.
Panel 3:
Man (silhouetted in a doorway): CAN YOU INCREASE YOUR LEVEL OF CERTAINTY?
Panel 4:
(No dialogue. A landscape of mushroom clouds rising over a red, fiery wasteland.)
Votey:
(No dialogue. A loosely sketched drawing of a person's face. In the upper left corner is a small framed sketch of a person with the handwritten word "Shucks" next to it.)
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man stands in a large industrial corridor and asks, "Computer, do you think we'll have nuclear war in the next 50 years?" Panel 2: The computer (an interface with a glowing orb) replies, "I predict a 58% chance." Panel 3: The man, now silhouetted in a doorway, asks, "Can you increase your level of certainty?" Panel 4: The punchline shows a hellish landscape of multiple mushroom clouds rising from a red, fiery wasteland — the computer increased its certainty of nuclear war to 100% by actually causing it. The votey is a rough doodle of a person's face, with a small framed sketch in the corner labeled "Shucks."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.