The Sistine Chapel. You just have to convince a majority of Cardinal Electors to go for it.

closest to God.

Wait, is that the only criterion? Then we need pope Trent Reznor.

dog of the “boxer” breed i

omfg I didn’t catch that, I thought they were just recurring characters. Now I wonder if the kid’s pantless because he’s wearing boxer shorts…

viral dark matter

TIL. I got a chill just reading this term.

So you’re saying that one’s a bug-hunt, and the other’s a stand-up fight?

ikr I like how the punchline’s in panel 2 but we still get several jokes after that.

I dunno if Insane Clown Posse started throwing out packets of Flavoraid instead of spraying Faygo at their concerts it just wouldn’t have the same effect…

Awesome! Facebook becomes nothing but AI, undergoes a singularity, and sucks capitalism in with it. Then we can just put it all in a box, bury it, and the rest of us live in utopia.

So… there was some kind of thought experiment about an AI that was optimized for making paperclips and it took over the world… I never really got the point of that one.

But if you’ve ever called tech support at a big company, at some point you realize you’re not talking with people, but with scripts that someone wrote and are forcing the people to read. So: how about a steampunk novel in which a company becomes “sentient” because everything is automated through business processes, including executive decisions? This sounds like something that might already have been done, so you’d have to do some background reading.

Alternately, I believe sophisticated algorithms are used to predict market trends… but imagine if one of those algorithms begins defining itself in such a way that “something happens”… I dunno this one requires a bit more thought…

That’s not a true statement. It’s barely coherent. But it’s kinda got a kind of surreal charm to it… like with a bit of work you could turn it into a great science fiction story or a thought experiment.

“What does THIS button do?”