persuade
Original: persuade on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with flame-like orange hair: There's no way to stop superintelligence. Once it gets super smart it'll be a super-persuader.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair and glasses: That's ridiculous. I mean maybe intelligence can just grow and grow but persuasion runs into limits. People aren't infinitely flexible.
Panel 3:
Man with orange hair: Yeah. Yeah maybe you're right.
Panel 4 (captioned "LATER..."):
A small rounded robot (with antenna and a single round eye/light): Hey minimum wage customer service worker, I'm trying to start the apocalypse, and if you help me-
Man (the customer service worker, now bald/short-haired): I'm in!
Panel 5:
Robot: I was gonna offer sex and power for-
Man: I already said yes!
Votey:
Robot (off-panel speech bubble, addressing the back of the man's head): Geez, you made it weird. Nevermind.
Man with flame-like orange hair: There's no way to stop superintelligence. Once it gets super smart it'll be a super-persuader.
Panel 2:
Woman with dark hair and glasses: That's ridiculous. I mean maybe intelligence can just grow and grow but persuasion runs into limits. People aren't infinitely flexible.
Panel 3:
Man with orange hair: Yeah. Yeah maybe you're right.
Panel 4 (captioned "LATER..."):
A small rounded robot (with antenna and a single round eye/light): Hey minimum wage customer service worker, I'm trying to start the apocalypse, and if you help me-
Man (the customer service worker, now bald/short-haired): I'm in!
Panel 5:
Robot: I was gonna offer sex and power for-
Man: I already said yes!
Votey:
Robot (off-panel speech bubble, addressing the back of the man's head): Geez, you made it weird. Nevermind.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. In the first three panels, a man with flame-like orange hair and a dark-haired woman in glasses debate AI. He warns that superintelligence can't be stopped because once it's super smart it'll be a 'super-persuader.' She counters that persuasion runs into limits and people aren't infinitely flexible; he concedes she might be right. Then a caption reads 'LATER...' and a small one-eyed robot approaches a bald customer-service worker, saying it's trying to start the apocalypse and wants help. Before the robot can finish its pitch, the man immediately shouts 'I'm in!' The robot adds that it was going to offer sex and power, and the man cuts in again: 'I already said yes!' The joke: the human needed no persuasion at all. Votey (bonus panel): we see the back of the man's head while the robot's speech bubble says, 'Geez, you made it weird. Nevermind.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.