Existential Comics

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

I know AI isn't conscious because it can listen to an entire meeting on a Friday afternoon without zoning out and thinking about the weekend even once.

If Iran blows up Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos I promise you here and now that I WILL convert to Islam and join the Butlerian Jihad.

I would say that in retrospect Microsoft's Clippy wasn't so bad. He gave some pretty great tips on how to write a memo. He didn't destroy the environment by consuming more energy than most countries. He didn't help bomb any countries.

All in all, C- to B+ range, realistically.

By the way, if someone is serving for the United States military, it is a bit old fashioned to say "thank you for your service", perhaps try instead: "you are a traitor to the human race."

In an open and free society, the State or media owners knowingly propagating lies should be be considered exactly the same as them censoring the truth.

Freedom of speech is the freedom to openly debate the truth, not the freedom to control media to subvert it.

Some people are apparently claiming that Silicon Valley Tech Bros have consciousness, like normal humans.

As someone who studies these issues carefully, I can assure you that this is an utterly preposterous claim. Yes, they can mimic humans, but they are fundamentally incapable of original thought.

It's weird to me that people were surprised that Bill Gates was in the Epstein files. Like...really? You were surprised that the guy who invented Internet Explorer 6 was evil??

Come on.

Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

Intelligent Life on Earth -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/644

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

Marx is Unfrozen in the Future
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/643

Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness.
Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.

if i were a boxer i would simply spray insulation foam inside my skull, rendering me IMMUNE to all knockouts, and easily become world champion of the world

There are generally accepted to be 6 stages in human history, based on the material that is most fundamental to the economy:

Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Industrial Age
Information Age
Like and Subscribe Age (the final stage of human development).

Vodka Drunkenski, the Soviet boxer in Nintendo's 1984 arcade game "Super Punch-Out!!" was renamed to "Soda Popinski" for the NES release of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" in 1987, in what many have described as the first instance of "political correctness gone mad".

Presidents Day is one of my favorite holidays, because if it wasn't for discount mattresses no one would even know when it was, or if it even happened at all.

A true American holiday.

David Hume on Creativity
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/642

Human kind has risen ourselves to be the masters of the Earth, so why should I be afraid of a little bug, just because it is in my soup?

The Summoning of Bertrand Russell -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/641

The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.

Hobbes vs Anarchism
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/640

Diogenes: Master of Philosophy
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/639

Even Hobbes, the most notoriously pro authoritarian government philosopher in history, who thought you had to obey even the worst government because it was better than no government, said that if your government just starts killing you, you don't have a social contact.

You don't have a government.

If I were Denmark I would simply agree to sell Greenland to Trump, take his money, then put up a sign that says:

"Greenland ➡️".

And have it point to a tunnel which I have cleverly painted onto a wall.

Young Hegelians vs Old Hegelians
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/638

@ancilevien74@piaille.fr

Spelling "rules" you say??? We anarachists intend to dismantle such bourgeois institutions.

A lot of people are against AI in software development, but I actually feel like it has improved my productivity a lot.

You see, my bosses are always saying things like "I bet AI could do this faster" so I'm like "no fuckin' chatbot is better than me" and I work twice as hard to prove how bad it is.

The Invention of Anarchism -
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/637