purity-3
Original: purity-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
A graph in the style of a bell curve. The vertical (Y) axis is labeled DANGER. The horizontal (X) axis is labeled MAD SCIENTIFIC PURITY. A tall bell-shaped curve rises in the middle and falls off toward both ends. Stick figures stand along the curve, each at a labeled point.
From left to right along the X axis, the labeled categories are:
MAD HUMANITIES
MAD SOCIAL SCIENCE
MAD CHEMISTRY
MAD PHYSICS
MAD MATHEMATICS
Left side of curve (low danger), at MAD HUMANITIES — a stick figure with one arm raised: "I'LL INTERPRET SHAKESPEARE IN AN IMPLAUSIBLE AND ANNOYING WAY!"
Peak of the curve (highest danger), at MAD CHEMISTRY — a stick figure with hands on hips: "EVERYONE WILL DIE OF GAS POISONING. SO MUCH PAIN."
Right side of curve (low danger), at MAD MATHEMATICS — a stick figure: "I'M ACTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A REGULAR MATHEMATICIAN."
Votey:
A single stick figure with a speech bubble: "THE TECHNICAL TERM IS ISOMORPHIC"
From left to right along the X axis, the labeled categories are:
MAD HUMANITIES
MAD SOCIAL SCIENCE
MAD CHEMISTRY
MAD PHYSICS
MAD MATHEMATICS
Left side of curve (low danger), at MAD HUMANITIES — a stick figure with one arm raised: "I'LL INTERPRET SHAKESPEARE IN AN IMPLAUSIBLE AND ANNOYING WAY!"
Peak of the curve (highest danger), at MAD CHEMISTRY — a stick figure with hands on hips: "EVERYONE WILL DIE OF GAS POISONING. SO MUCH PAIN."
Right side of curve (low danger), at MAD MATHEMATICS — a stick figure: "I'M ACTUALLY INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM A REGULAR MATHEMATICIAN."
Votey:
A single stick figure with a speech bubble: "THE TECHNICAL TERM IS ISOMORPHIC"
Alt text
A bell-curve diagram parodying "purity of science." The vertical axis is DANGER and the horizontal axis is MAD SCIENTIFIC PURITY. A tall hump-shaped curve peaks in the middle. Stick-figure mad scientists stand along it, labeled (left to right) MAD HUMANITIES, MAD SOCIAL SCIENCE, MAD CHEMISTRY, MAD PHYSICS, MAD MATHEMATICS. At the low-danger left end, the mad humanities scientist raises an arm and declares, "I'll interpret Shakespeare in an implausible and annoying way!" At the dangerous peak, the mad chemist (hands on hips) says, "Everyone will die of gas poisoning. So much pain." At the low-danger right end, the mad mathematician admits, "I'm actually indistinguishable from a regular mathematician." The joke: the more abstract/pure the field, the less dangerous its "mad" practitioners are, with chemistry being the deadliest. Votey: a lone stick figure adds, "The technical term is isomorphic" — a math-pun noting the mad mathematician and a regular mathematician are formally identical.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.