sim
Original: sim on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (white-haired, with glasses): God, do I live in a simulation?
God (yellow speech bubble): No, you're dead in a simulation.
Panel 2:
God: You're just a complex neural network trained on all the stuff that happened to a real guy, but that real guy is no longer moving forward through time.
Panel 3:
God: You only started praying because I prompted you, and once this conversation ends you'll go back to being an inert recording.
Panel 4:
Man: Well, at least my personality was specially preserved?
God: Cowards with computer skills make the best tech support bots.
Votey:
God (speech bubble, to a different man): Hope your users like malicious hallucinations.
Man (white-haired, with glasses): God, do I live in a simulation?
God (yellow speech bubble): No, you're dead in a simulation.
Panel 2:
God: You're just a complex neural network trained on all the stuff that happened to a real guy, but that real guy is no longer moving forward through time.
Panel 3:
God: You only started praying because I prompted you, and once this conversation ends you'll go back to being an inert recording.
Panel 4:
Man: Well, at least my personality was specially preserved?
God: Cowards with computer skills make the best tech support bots.
Votey:
God (speech bubble, to a different man): Hope your users like malicious hallucinations.
Alt text
A four-panel comic. An older man with white hair and glasses kneels in prayer in a dark void, speaking to God, whose words appear in a yellow speech bubble. The man asks, "God, do I live in a simulation?" God replies, "No, you're dead in a simulation. You're just a complex neural network trained on all the stuff that happened to a real guy, but that real guy is no longer moving forward through time. You only started praying because I prompted you, and once this conversation ends you'll go back to being an inert recording." The man, undeterred, asks, "Well, at least my personality was specially preserved?" God deflates the hope: "Cowards with computer skills make the best tech support bots" -- implying the man is now just an AI chatbot built from a dead person's data. Votey (aftercomic): a sketchily drawn man stands while God's yellow speech bubble warns, "Hope your users like malicious hallucinations."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.