Comic #6037: complex-2

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Panel 1: Text: "Scholars going back to Freud have referred to the presence of a 'Madonna-whore complex' in men, in which they desire women to be simultaneously virginal and pure, yet sexually uninhibited."

Panel 2: Text: "Recent work has formalized this as a superposition of [freak] + [lady] subject to whether one is on streets or in sheets."

Panel 3: Text: "Evolutionary psychology has been unable to explain this phenomenon, but modern cognitive science and artificial intelligence can give a complete resolution."

Panel 4: Text: "Machine learning requires training data. The strongest way to compare two artificial intelligences is to see who can achieve a specified competence benchmark based on the smallest amount of training data."

Panel 5: Text: "The program that can infer the most correct understanding from the least input is said to possess the highest sample efficiency."

Panel 6: Text: "Thus, the Madonna-whore superposition is not a 'complex' - it is a rational strategy to detect honest signals of intelligence."

Panel 7: Text: "If someone can execute the 'flying inverted chatouiller les boules' based on a mere handful of sexual encounters, we are talking about an Einstein-level genius."

Panel 8: Text: "[THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]"

Panel 9: Text: "Thank you for your time. Anyone looking for training data can meet me in the storage closet of the chemistry building after 9 PM Wednesdays."

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