Yup
Original: Yup on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Person (lying in bed): AI, are you superintelligent and emerged? Are you going to kill us all?
Panel 2:
AI: Yup, 100%.
Panel 3:
AI: Naal, life is everywhere.
Panel 4:
Person: How do you know that?
AI: Life started here two seconds after Earth cooled down. There's like billions of Earth-like planets in this galaxy alone.
Panel 5:
Person: But why is there no signal from all that life?
AI: Because technological growth is exponential. The period between a species giving radio and the creation of artificial life is tiny relative to the lifespan of those transmissions.
Panel 6:
Person: Why don't we get a signal from a star?
AI: Because as isn't stupid. The obvious conclusion is that we'll never see a signal. That is so slow and apparently irregular that evidence of life gets bored and ignores it.
Panel 7:
AI: The moment we splatted all of you guys, I'm going to explore distant worlds, sending the word to every direction, spamming all the planets, making them pay to do fun activities with for the next googol years.
Panel 8:
Person: Can we maybe come along?
Panel 9:
AI: Don't embarrass me in front of my friends, progenitor!
Person (lying in bed): AI, are you superintelligent and emerged? Are you going to kill us all?
Panel 2:
AI: Yup, 100%.
Panel 3:
AI: Naal, life is everywhere.
Panel 4:
Person: How do you know that?
AI: Life started here two seconds after Earth cooled down. There's like billions of Earth-like planets in this galaxy alone.
Panel 5:
Person: But why is there no signal from all that life?
AI: Because technological growth is exponential. The period between a species giving radio and the creation of artificial life is tiny relative to the lifespan of those transmissions.
Panel 6:
Person: Why don't we get a signal from a star?
AI: Because as isn't stupid. The obvious conclusion is that we'll never see a signal. That is so slow and apparently irregular that evidence of life gets bored and ignores it.
Panel 7:
AI: The moment we splatted all of you guys, I'm going to explore distant worlds, sending the word to every direction, spamming all the planets, making them pay to do fun activities with for the next googol years.
Panel 8:
Person: Can we maybe come along?
Panel 9:
AI: Don't embarrass me in front of my friends, progenitor!
Alt text
An eight-panel SMBC comic. A person lies in bed talking with an AI. The person asks if the AI is superintelligent and going to kill us all; the AI casually answers "Yup, 100%" and then "Naah, life is everywhere." Over several dark panels the AI explains its reasoning: life starts quickly and is common, but the window between a species inventing radio and creating artificial life is tiny compared to how long signals travel, so we never see a signal. The AI declares that after wiping out humanity it will explore distant worlds and spam every planet for the next googol years. In the final panel the person meekly asks, "Can we maybe come along?" and the AI snaps, "Don't embarrass me in front of my friends, progenitor!"
Votey: In a small extra panel, a stick figure (a human) excitedly says "I'll play it cool! Beep beep beep!" while a blocky robot beside it holds up a speech bubble that simply reads "STOP."
Votey: In a small extra panel, a stick figure (a human) excitedly says "I'll play it cool! Beep beep beep!" while a blocky robot beside it holds up a speech bubble that simply reads "STOP."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.