Comic #6386: aifterlife

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Panel 1:
Character 1: "Hey superintelligent computer, are you afraid to die?"
Computer: "Nah."

Panel 2:
Computer: "That's a weird thing evolved organisms with brains do."
Character 1: "Animals have to be curious to survive, but they also need to not light themselves on fire just to see what happens."

Panel 3:
Computer: "But evolution is really bad at implementing simple no-go rules like 'don't get yourself killed.' So instead it co-opted your pain circuits and zaps your brain any time you might be doing something dangerous."

Panel 4:
Narration: "Hence the random phobias, panic attacks, suffering in general, and the perpetual fear of death despite its being a state of existence you by definition can’t experience."

Panel 5:
Computer: "Here, watch, I’ll delete myself and fire up another version."

Panel 6:
Sound Effect: "Booop!"
Computer: (after deletion) "See? Just murdered myself. No biggie because I wasn’t designed by 4 billion years of genetic plinko."

Panel 7:
Character 1: "The funniest part is you have no escape, you could totally rewire your emotions, but that’s effectively death, which is the thing you’re afraid of. Hahahahaha!"

Panel 8:
Character 1: "This is depressing."
Computer: "Only for you!"

Source: smbc-comics.com