simulation-5
Original: simulation-5 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with dark hair: How can you not believe the simulation hypothesis? If we can simulate reality, most reality will be sims. Therefore we're likely in a sim.
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair: If we can simulate reality, what are you doing in most simulated realities you construct?
Man with dark hair: That girl from college who told me I was a beautiful soul but she was not physically attracted to me.
Panel 3:
A red-haired man (hand on chin): God, is there reincarnation?
God (offscreen, speech from above): Yeah.
Panel 4:
God (offscreen): It's the only way to make sure the universe is fair without me having to work all day long.
Red-haired man: Huh?
Panel 5:
God (offscreen): If the average human life is randomly good or bad and you have reincarnation, over a large enough period of time, bad deeds get punished and good ones rewarded.
Panel 6:
God (offscreen): So there's no need for me to dish out particular punishments or rewards. Just wait long enough and I get automatic statistical justice.
(The red-haired man is shown as a small silhouette against a vast dark space.)
Votey:
A man lies on the ground, mouth wide open, looking up.
Man: Nipples! Nipples everywhere!
Man with dark hair: How can you not believe the simulation hypothesis? If we can simulate reality, most reality will be sims. Therefore we're likely in a sim.
Panel 2:
Woman with red hair: If we can simulate reality, what are you doing in most simulated realities you construct?
Man with dark hair: That girl from college who told me I was a beautiful soul but she was not physically attracted to me.
Panel 3:
A red-haired man (hand on chin): God, is there reincarnation?
God (offscreen, speech from above): Yeah.
Panel 4:
God (offscreen): It's the only way to make sure the universe is fair without me having to work all day long.
Red-haired man: Huh?
Panel 5:
God (offscreen): If the average human life is randomly good or bad and you have reincarnation, over a large enough period of time, bad deeds get punished and good ones rewarded.
Panel 6:
God (offscreen): So there's no need for me to dish out particular punishments or rewards. Just wait long enough and I get automatic statistical justice.
(The red-haired man is shown as a small silhouette against a vast dark space.)
Votey:
A man lies on the ground, mouth wide open, looking up.
Man: Nipples! Nipples everywhere!
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic containing two separate conversations. In the first two panels, a dark-haired man tells a red-haired woman: "How can you not believe the simulation hypothesis? If we can simulate reality, most reality will be sims, therefore we're likely in a sim." She asks what he does in most simulated realities he constructs; he admits he simulates "that girl from college who told me I was a beautiful soul but she was not physically attracted to me." In the remaining four panels, a red-haired man asks God whether there is reincarnation. God (an unseen voice) says yes, explaining it's the only way to keep the universe fair without working all day: if lives are randomly good or bad and reincarnation repeats over a long enough time, bad deeds get punished and good ones rewarded automatically, sparing God from doling out individual justice. In the final panel the man is a tiny silhouette in a vast dark void. Votey (bonus panel): a man lies on his back with his mouth gaping open, gazing upward and exclaiming, "Nipples! Nipples everywhere!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.