Special
Original: Special on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with red hair (in a pink shirt): Are human brains more powerful than any conceivable mechanical brain?
Panel 2:
A yellow robot: Yes. Human consciousness is something special. Beyond artificial capability in ways science cannot explain.
Panel 3:
The woman (raising her arms in triumph): Woohoo!
Panel 4:
The woman: We're special! We're unique and — hey, what's that machine for?
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel):
The robot, gesturing to a massive wall covered in a tiled array of green human brains: This cluster solves NP-complete problems to improve waste management planning.
(The woman stands small at the base of the towering wall of brains.)
Votey:
A close-up of the woman's face, looking unsettled/deadpan.
The woman: I love how unified they are.
A woman with red hair (in a pink shirt): Are human brains more powerful than any conceivable mechanical brain?
Panel 2:
A yellow robot: Yes. Human consciousness is something special. Beyond artificial capability in ways science cannot explain.
Panel 3:
The woman (raising her arms in triumph): Woohoo!
Panel 4:
The woman: We're special! We're unique and — hey, what's that machine for?
Panel 5 (wide bottom panel):
The robot, gesturing to a massive wall covered in a tiled array of green human brains: This cluster solves NP-complete problems to improve waste management planning.
(The woman stands small at the base of the towering wall of brains.)
Votey:
A close-up of the woman's face, looking unsettled/deadpan.
The woman: I love how unified they are.
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a red-haired woman in a pink shirt asks a yellow robot, "Are human brains more powerful than any conceivable mechanical brain?" Panel 2: the robot replies, "Yes. Human consciousness is something special. Beyond artificial capability in ways science cannot explain." Panel 3: the woman throws up her arms, cheering "Woohoo!" Panel 4: she says, "We're special! We're unique and — hey, what's that machine for?" Panel 5 (wide): a caption from the robot reads, "This cluster solves NP-complete problems to improve waste management planning," as the camera pulls back to reveal a gigantic wall tiled with hundreds of green human brains wired together as a computing cluster; the woman stands tiny at its base. The joke: the very specialness of human brains is being harvested into a brute-force server farm for mundane logistics. Votey (aftercomic): an extreme close-up of the woman's face, now deadpan and uneasy, saying "I love how unified they are."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.