Nigh
Original: Nigh on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
Two men stand side by side holding protest signs.
Sign held by a bearded man (wearing a cross necklace): "THE END IS NIGH"
Sign held by a man with glasses and short dark hair (wearing a cross necklace): "THE END IS NIGH +/- 5 years"
Caption below the panel: Have you noticed that the Singularity people are the first doomsayers to use error bars?
Votey:
The man with glasses speaks (eyes half-closed, weary expression).
Man: I'll be yelling in the park about some data from Metaculus this evening if you'd like to accompany me.
Two men stand side by side holding protest signs.
Sign held by a bearded man (wearing a cross necklace): "THE END IS NIGH"
Sign held by a man with glasses and short dark hair (wearing a cross necklace): "THE END IS NIGH +/- 5 years"
Caption below the panel: Have you noticed that the Singularity people are the first doomsayers to use error bars?
Votey:
The man with glasses speaks (eyes half-closed, weary expression).
Man: I'll be yelling in the park about some data from Metaculus this evening if you'd like to accompany me.
Alt text
A single-panel comic shows two men standing side by side, each holding a protest-style sign, both wearing a cross necklace. The bearded man on the left holds a sign reading "THE END IS NIGH." The man with glasses on the right holds a nearly identical sign that reads "THE END IS NIGH +/- 5 years," the added error-bar margin being the joke. A caption beneath reads: "Have you noticed that the Singularity people are the first doomsayers to use error bars?" In the votey (aftercomic), a close-up of the glasses-wearing man with a tired, half-lidded expression as he says: "I'll be yelling in the park about some data from Metaculus this evening if you'd like to accompany me." The humor contrasts traditional apocalyptic street preachers with tech/Singularity prophets who hedge their doom predictions with statistical uncertainty.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.