Calculus

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Calculus

Title text: Hope you're getting a good laugh, cybo-people of 2073!

Votey

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God, life is a net negative. Doesn't that imply you have a moral duty to destroy all humans?

Not so! I'm trying to get the maximum integral of happiness over time, summed over all of history throughout the universe!

Ife like you will eventually give rise to self-modifying cyborgs experiencing constant pleasure! A harmony of glorious sensation, symphonic braided beauty, in all-surpassing combination - animal, intellectual, transcendent. The final, forever, melody of joy.

You won't be there for it but the math works out great.

Can't you give us that stuff now?

No, the cyborgs' favorite activity will be being glad they don't live in the past.

And because they're so good at happiness it easily counterbalances your suffering.

Ah.

I

I understand, but I don't understand

I'd show you the math if you were a cyborg, but it'd be like trying to teach a turnip calculus.

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Votey Transcript

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I will personally donate 4 dollars.

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Discussion

This strip is a great counterpart to 2012-04-03 (Felix / Nozick's Utility Monster). I particularly liked the perspective shift. History is written by the victor-ious robot overlords, after all. 143.244.41.173 11:55, 28 February 2024 (EST)