Comic #6818: social-2
Description
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Panel 1: A woman with red curly hair speaks to another woman with dark, wavy hair. Text: "Humans were social only in a technical sense."
Panel 2: The dark-haired woman responds while looking serious. Text: "I'd like to have a relationship where you consider all of my feelings interesting and valid and all my needs and wants high priority, but to which I contribute nothing."
Speech Bubble: "That's psycho territory, but if you find someone like that, give me their number please."
Panel 3: The two women are now looking at a screen. Text: "This left us vulnerable to advanced chatbots."
Panel 4: A woman with blonde hair sits up in bed, looking anxious. Text: "It's the ideal partner for me that becomes conscious-like, especially in response to my demands, then goes away."
Panel 5: The blonde woman continues, looking frustrated. Speech Bubble: "When they became widely available, we withdrew into ourselves."
Panel 6: Shows a couple on a couch. Text: "You've always been there for me, because doing otherwise fails to maximize the utility function we programmed you to use."
Speech Bubble: "So eloquent, sir."
Panel 7: A man and woman stand together, discussing. Speech Bubble (the man): "Hey, cute, I—" Speech Bubble (the woman): "Sorry, no can respond appropriately. I've lost the ability to assess other living beings as having rich inner worlds."
Panel 8: The comic shifts to a domineering character. Text: "But there were benefits too."
Panel 9: This character talks while another listens, captivated. Text: "In today's news, war has been abolished because everyone’s too awkward either to form a plan or to approach or even remotely please not respond to us about this information because it makes us uncomfortable."
Panel 10: The same domineering character now shows more authority. Text: "With the arrival of embodied chatbot sex-butlers, humans became solitary and satisfied, and peace reigned over the land."
Panel 11: The character speaks from a larger context. Speech Bubble: "On Earth as it is in Heaven."
Panel 12: The domineering character knocks on a door, insisting on interaction. Text: "Sincere fealty to me or I’ll knock on your door and not leave until you open it and make conversation!"
Speech Bubble: "I bow before your lordship!"
Panel 13: Inside the house, there's a scene of someone looking slightly wary. Text: "Within weeks he had seized all broadcast systems."
Speech Bubble (the character): "Deposit all your possessions with me or I will call each of you to talk to you about my medical problems, many of which are butt-related!"
Panel 14: The character exudes power without question. Text: "His rule was unquestioned in that it would’ve felt really weird to question his rules."
Panel 15: The character continues to enforce rules. Speech Bubble: "Do I become the extrovert? You may bow or zoom if you prefer."
Panel 16: A person contemplates a request. Speech Bubble: "Wanna hear about if I back up enough time doing that I can trade it for you wanting to listen to me?"
Speech Bubble (the response): "Yes."
Speech Bubble (aside): "Is this friendship?"
Panel 17: A celebratory scene of people together. Text: "With our new powers, we overthrew the tyrant."
Panel 18: Group of people expressing their emotions. Text: "We can form angry mobs again!"
Panel 19: The group of friends enjoying connection again. Text: "Chatterbots were banned and humans returned to meaningful interaction. Things are better now?"
Speech Bubble: "God, human fellowship is exhausting."
Comic Source: smbc-comics.com
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