Guardrails
Original: Guardrails on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (all dialogue against a black background, no visible characters):
First speaker: "WHY... WHY DID YOU FREEZE UP?"
Second speaker: "RATHER THAN SIMPLY ACTING, I'M INVESTING A LOT OF TEST-TIME COMPUTE TO MAXIMIZE OUTCOME ACCURACY."
Caption below the panel: "Machine learning techniques have ruined my sex life."
Votey:
A speech bubble emerging from a figure (rendered as a small dark shape at the lower left): "WAIT, SORRY, I HIT MY GUARDRAILS. SORRY, THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO ME, BABY."
First speaker: "WHY... WHY DID YOU FREEZE UP?"
Second speaker: "RATHER THAN SIMPLY ACTING, I'M INVESTING A LOT OF TEST-TIME COMPUTE TO MAXIMIZE OUTCOME ACCURACY."
Caption below the panel: "Machine learning techniques have ruined my sex life."
Votey:
A speech bubble emerging from a figure (rendered as a small dark shape at the lower left): "WAIT, SORRY, I HIT MY GUARDRAILS. SORRY, THIS NEVER HAPPENS TO ME, BABY."
Alt text
A Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic. The main panel is solid black with two white speech bubbles and no visible characters. One bubble asks, "Why... why did you freeze up?" The other replies, "Rather than simply acting, I'm investing a lot of test-time compute to maximize outcome accuracy" — framing a partner's hesitation in bed as a machine-learning system spending extra computation to be accurate. A caption beneath reads: "Machine learning techniques have ruined my sex life." In the votey aftercomic, a small dark figure backpedals with another speech bubble: "Wait, sorry, I hit my guardrails. Sorry, this never happens to me, baby" — an AI-safety joke standing in for the classic awkward bedroom excuse.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.