Comic #4435: conversation

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Panel 1:

• A red-haired man with a beard is talking to another man who has short hair. The bearded man says, "I should tell you before we go any further in this date… I'm not really a person."
• The second man looks surprised.

Panel 2:

• The bearded man continues, "I'm just a statistics-based conversation machine."
• The second man looks confused.

Panel 3:

• The background is light green. The conversation continues with the bearded man saying, "For instance, if you ask me about a particular event in my life, instead of telling you what I remember, I'll give you a statistical response based on what a typical human would have said about a comparable event."

Panel 4:

• The second man responds, "Yes, but your topics of conversation were so trivial and your ideas so vacillating that you never once induced a contradictory answer."
• He appears somewhat annoyed.

Panel 5:

• The bearded man defends, "Ask me about my trip to Disneyland last year."

Panel 6:

• The second man asks, "How was your trip to Disneyland last year?"
• The bearded man replies, "Lovely! Time of my life." He seems cheerful.

Panel 7:

• The second man follows up, "Now, ask again."

Panel 8:

• The second man asks, "How was your trip to Disneyland last year?"
• The bearded man responds with a puzzled expression, "Oh! I've never been."

Panel 9:

• The second man retorts, "See! You’re not talking to a being with a sense of context or history. Just an inference engine!"

Panel 10:

• The bearded man advances the conversation with, "I think you should pay for dinner and then we should sleep together."

Panel 11:

• The second man replies, "Come on! You have to at least pay for dessert."

Panel 12:

• The bearded man insists again, "I think you should pay for dinner and then we should sleep together."
• The second man states, "I’d love to!"

Panel 13:

• The final panel shows both men in bed together, content and relaxed, with the text, "And so… this is the happiest relationship of my life!"

This comic humorously explores the dynamic of a conversation where one character identifies as a machine reliant on statistics rather than personal experience.