Comic #5110: computer
Description
Here’s a detailed transcription of the text in the comic:
Panel 1:
- Character 1: "Dear God, is reality a computer?"
- Character 2: "Oh, yeah. That's the reason there's a multiverse. It calculates stuff."
Panel 2:
- Character 2: "First, you start with a math problem you can't solve. Then, you set up a universe so that the only way to escape is to solve a math problem."
Panel 3:
- Character 2: "You set the universe to split every time a quantum event happens."
Panel 4:
- Character 2: "You wait long enough, some universes will develop patterns that create order and excrete entropy."
- Character 3: "Hi, I'm Dave."
Panel 5:
- Character 2: "This pattern will use up its allotment of order, then start working on a way to escape."
Panel 6:
- Character 4: "Madame President, we've reduced this universe to an inert motionless wasteland."
- Character 5: "Can we find someone who did a better job husbanding their limited resources, and then eat them?"
Panel 7:
- Character 2: "It escapes to an adjacent universe, where it devours its resources."
Panel 8:
- Character 6: "You can't stop us from killing you! That proves our moral superiority!"
Panel 9:
- Character 2: "And then you ask the escapees how they did it?"
- Character 3: "What? No? There's like a trillion jillion universes. How would you know who to ask?"
Panel 10:
- Character 2: "You let the process run while you go microwave a burrito or something."
Panel 11:
- Character 2: "After a while, you come back and check. The only universe remaining will necessarily contain creatures that solved the problem. Voila! Math homework complete."
Panel 12:
- (Image of a coin and a small object)
- Character 7: "Twelve!"
Panel 13:
- Character 8: "So… the only meaning to my life is to solve a math problem that you find interesting?"
- Character 2: "Not you in particular. You suck at math."
This transcription captures the dialogue clearly for accessibility.