ohyesrobot.ordoliberal.com

Good

Original: Good on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
A person with flame-like hair (the questioner): "God, are things good because you command it, or do you command it because it is good?"

Panel 2:
A figure with an orange/pointed head (God): "Man, I dunno. I just do next token prediction."

Panel 3:
The questioner: "...How many R's in 'resurrection'?"

Panel 4:
God: "Two. Why?"
The questioner (now shown in silhouette): "Everything is so clear now."

Votey:
The questioner (in silhouette): "That is such a clever operation, brain emoji, heart emoji, exclamation point!"

Alt text

A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A man with flame-like hair asks an off-panel figure, "God, are things good because you command it, or do you command it because it is good?" Panel 2: The reply comes from a small figure with a pointed orange head (God): "Man, I dunno. I just do next token prediction." Panel 3: The man asks, "...How many R's in 'resurrection'?" Panel 4: God answers "Two. Why?" and the man, now a dark silhouette, says "Everything is so clear now" -- the joke being that God's wrong, confident letter-counting answer is the classic failure mode of a large language model, revealing the divine as just a next-token predictor. Votey panel: The same man in silhouette gazes upward and says, "That is such a clever operation, brain emoji, heart emoji, exclamation point!" -- spelling out emoji names aloud, mimicking the flat, emoji-laden way an LLM chatbot praises a clever idea.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.