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Original: same on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with flame-like orange/red hair stands on a teleporter pad, asking:
Man on teleporter: DO I DIE WHEN THE TELEPORTER SWITCHES ON?
Behind a console stand two figures (population biologists). One of them answers:
Population biologist: SAME GAMETES. SAME PHENOTYPE. SAME NUMBER OF AGENTS. MODEL WORKS THE SAME.
Caption below the panel: Population biologists don't understand the Teleporter Problem.
Votey:
The population biologist continues speaking (only the back/top of the head is visible):
Population biologist: HONESTLY, EVEN IF YOU DON'T DIE THE RESULTS ARE NEGLIGIBLE ENOUGH TO BE IGNORED.
A man with flame-like orange/red hair stands on a teleporter pad, asking:
Man on teleporter: DO I DIE WHEN THE TELEPORTER SWITCHES ON?
Behind a console stand two figures (population biologists). One of them answers:
Population biologist: SAME GAMETES. SAME PHENOTYPE. SAME NUMBER OF AGENTS. MODEL WORKS THE SAME.
Caption below the panel: Population biologists don't understand the Teleporter Problem.
Votey:
The population biologist continues speaking (only the back/top of the head is visible):
Population biologist: HONESTLY, EVEN IF YOU DON'T DIE THE RESULTS ARE NEGLIGIBLE ENOUGH TO BE IGNORED.
Alt text
A man with red flame-like hair stands worried on a glowing teleporter pad and asks 'Do I die when the teleporter switches on?' Across a sci-fi room, two population biologists at a console answer matter-of-factly: 'Same gametes. Same phenotype. Same number of agents. Model works the same.' Caption: 'Population biologists don't understand the Teleporter Problem.' In the votey aftercomic, a close-up on the back of the biologist's head as they add: 'Honestly, even if you don't die the results are negligible enough to be ignored.' The joke: population biologists treat the philosophical question of whether teleportation kills and replaces you as statistically irrelevant, since the population stays the same either way.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.