Comic #4897: intelligence
Description
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Panel 1:
- Person 1: "Can you make our baby smarter?"
- Person 2: "And, like, give us a cut holders?"
Panel 2:
- Person 1: "But, it turns out that most desirable characteristics are hopelessly polygenic."
- Person 2: "It's going to be a long time before we can turn the knob on cognitive ability, but we can select what kind of ears they’ll have!"
Panel 3:
- Person 1: "There was, however, a less subtle approach."
- Person 2: "Jackpot!"
- Person 3: "Why is everyone ignoring my cut-holder idea?"
Panel 4:
- Person 1: "Despite being dead, Einstein became the fittest human being in history."
- Person 2: "Welcome to kindergarten!"
Panel 5:
- Person 1: "This created an unexpected externality."
- Person 2: "I love you, Albert, but somehow, in some way I don't understand, my body tells me not to sleep with you!"
Panel 6:
- Person 1: "A generation passed before we realized the danger. By then it was too late."
- Person 2: "We hired them to correct genetic issues due to inbreeding, but they keep messing up the nature of the cosmos."
Panel 7:
- Person 1: "In a perpetual dream of physics, few of Homo Einsteins had the wherewithal to do the needed labor in sanitation, agriculture, and infrastructure."
- Person 2: "So hungry, must scavenge… but… did John Bell really disprove hidden variables?"
Panel 8:
- Person 1: "Only a few of us were unscathed by the genetic catastrophe. The Amish, Hutterites, and the remaining hippie communes banded together."
- Person 2: "They want us, not for our food, not for our shelter, for our untainted bloodlines."
Panel 9:
- Person 1: "We were all once lovers of peace."
- Person 2: "Gamma gamma gamma gamma gamma gamma."
Panel 10:
- Person 1: "And now… now we know only war."
- Person 2: "Honey, I don’t know if the world is ready for your original zombie movie setting."
- Person 3: "Then they'll find out the hard way."
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