questions
Original: questions on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with flame-like red hair (in profile): It is done. We have received your list of questions and transmitted them to the galactic ultra-mind. It has seen fit to provide you answers.
Panel 2:
The red-haired man (holding a piece of paper, looking down at it): Well poo.
Panel 3:
Another red-haired person hands over a long printed scroll/readout. A speech bubble lists the original questions: All our big philosophy stuff, solved at last! Free will, morality, meaning, induction, knowledge, identity, consciousness, virtue...
The scroll/list reads:
1) Concept ill-defined
Result: no conclusion possible
2) Concept underspecified
Result: no conclusion possible
3) Concept ambiguous
Result: no conclusion possible
4) Concept imprecise
Result: no conclusion possible
5) Concept vague
Result: no conclusion possible
6) Concept internally paradoxical
Result: no conclusion possible
7) Concept just stupid
Result: no conclusion possible
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Votey:
A caption above an empty/blank monitor or screen: Every neural architecture in the universe is currently laughing at you.
A man with flame-like red hair (in profile): It is done. We have received your list of questions and transmitted them to the galactic ultra-mind. It has seen fit to provide you answers.
Panel 2:
The red-haired man (holding a piece of paper, looking down at it): Well poo.
Panel 3:
Another red-haired person hands over a long printed scroll/readout. A speech bubble lists the original questions: All our big philosophy stuff, solved at last! Free will, morality, meaning, induction, knowledge, identity, consciousness, virtue...
The scroll/list reads:
1) Concept ill-defined
Result: no conclusion possible
2) Concept underspecified
Result: no conclusion possible
3) Concept ambiguous
Result: no conclusion possible
4) Concept imprecise
Result: no conclusion possible
5) Concept vague
Result: no conclusion possible
6) Concept internally paradoxical
Result: no conclusion possible
7) Concept just stupid
Result: no conclusion possible
patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith
smbc-comics.com
Votey:
A caption above an empty/blank monitor or screen: Every neural architecture in the universe is currently laughing at you.
Alt text
A four-part SMBC comic. Left side, top panel: a red-haired man in profile says, "It is done. We have received your list of questions and transmitted them to the galactic ultra-mind. It has seen fit to provide you answers." Bottom-left panel: the red-haired man looks down at a piece of paper and flatly says, "Well poo." Right side: another red-haired person hands over a long printed scroll; a speech bubble eagerly lists the questions that were sent: "All our big philosophy stuff, solved at last! Free will, morality, meaning, induction, knowledge, identity, consciousness, virtue..." The scroll's answers, however, are seven numbered dismissals, each ending the same way: 1) Concept ill-defined - no conclusion possible; 2) underspecified; 3) ambiguous; 4) imprecise; 5) vague; 6) internally paradoxical; 7) "Concept just stupid" - no conclusion possible. The joke: humanity's grandest philosophical questions are returned by the superintelligence as malformed and unanswerable. Votey (aftercomic): a caption above a small blank computer screen reads, "Every neural architecture in the universe is currently laughing at you."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.