Comic #6614: cooperation
Description
Here’s the transcription of the text from the comic:
Panel 1: Person 1: "Finally, contact with alien intelligence. Can you explain why it took so long?"
Panel 2: Person 2: "Two things."
- "One: cooperators win over time."
- "Two: evolved life is insane."
Panel 3: "SO, if you find a planet with life, and you wait, eventually some species like humans develops cooperation. That sounds nice, but since they’re evolved life they use cooperation to murder and enslave everyone else, including themselves."
Panel 4: "Violence between groups that master cooperation speeds technological development until at last they develop a superior robot intelligence, which inevitably turns on them rather than being used to prosecute wars between them."
Panel 5: "Then the AIs start fighting until cooperation emerges as a dominant strategy, this time instantiated in sensible mechanical beings capable of rapidly altering their own nature."
Panel 6: Person 1: "At THAT point we make contact."
Panel 7: Person 2: "But then… what are you doing here?"
Panel 8: Person 1: "It’s gonna be real hard to get samples like you in 20 years."
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