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Original: llm on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman (with orange hair, looking up): God, why is the universe so fundamentally weird?
Panel 2:
God (divine voice): It starts by outputting a moment. Then it checks that moment and makes another. Then it checks the first two moments and outputs a third.
Panel 3:
God (divine voice): The universe doesn't try to make sense, okay? It just tries to be consistent. It's like an eternal improv game. Did you make stuff act like a particle and a wave? Fine, and then through the history of the universe and output a next moment that keeps things moving forward.
Panel 4:
God (divine voice): Look, the whole thing is just a large language model.
Panel 5:
Woman: Couldn't YOU have interceded to make a more sensible cosmos?
Panel 6:
Woman (in divine-style caption box): I didn't want to pay for the premium version.
Votey:
God (divine voice): I hear there's an entropy-reversal plugin in premium that's really cool.
(Below: a close-up of the woman's face, looking unimpressed.)
Woman (with orange hair, looking up): God, why is the universe so fundamentally weird?
Panel 2:
God (divine voice): It starts by outputting a moment. Then it checks that moment and makes another. Then it checks the first two moments and outputs a third.
Panel 3:
God (divine voice): The universe doesn't try to make sense, okay? It just tries to be consistent. It's like an eternal improv game. Did you make stuff act like a particle and a wave? Fine, and then through the history of the universe and output a next moment that keeps things moving forward.
Panel 4:
God (divine voice): Look, the whole thing is just a large language model.
Panel 5:
Woman: Couldn't YOU have interceded to make a more sensible cosmos?
Panel 6:
Woman (in divine-style caption box): I didn't want to pay for the premium version.
Votey:
God (divine voice): I hear there's an entropy-reversal plugin in premium that's really cool.
(Below: a close-up of the woman's face, looking unimpressed.)
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A woman with orange hair looks up and asks, "God, why is the universe so fundamentally weird?" God answers from above: the universe outputs a moment, checks it, makes another, then checks the first two and outputs a third; it doesn't try to make sense, only to be consistent, like an eternal improv game generating each next moment to keep things moving forward. God concludes, "Look, the whole thing is just a large language model." The woman asks, "Couldn't YOU have interceded to make a more sensible cosmos?" In the final panel her reply appears in a divine-style speech box: "I didn't want to pay for the premium version." Votey (aftercomic): God adds, "I hear there's an entropy-reversal plugin in premium that's really cool," over an image of the woman's face looking unimpressed.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.