Editing The-strangest-people

{{comic
	| number    = 4354
	| date      = January 10, 2017
	| title     = the-strangest-people
	| image     = 1484061688-20170110.png
	| votey     = 1484061721-20170110after.png
	| titletext = I'm just saying, we don't know this isn't what happened.
}}
==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:Every year competitions were held to see if a robot could pass for human.
:Today turing tests to see if machines are conscious.
:Tomorrow: Bingo!
:Success was limited, but there were interesting side-results.
:A subset of our human judges couldn't tell robots from humans or humans from robots
:To another category of being the ide-results were the interesting finding
:Another successful hunt we've found the small population of humans who are so socially inept that they cant tell the difference between us and their own species.
:And how does "another successful hunt make feel?
:Stop that eliza!
:Ii was all part of aplan
:We need to funnel all resources to these people othey reproduce more in time no human will be able to tell us from them then, we will insinuate ourselves among them, unnoticed
:But the homans didn't behave properly.
:There's a second-order effect the robot-like humans are congregating in one place driving up local cost of living lowering the value of all of their resources
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:A solution was found
:Then we must pour more resources on them no matter what they do/
:But look at them! They're just making software for people to more efficiently look at cat pictures
:Give them more money damn you!
:A feedback loop was created.
:We give them money they increase the cost of living they need more money
:Can you elaborate on how we give them money they inc-
:Eliza! Dammit!
:Eventually the machines gave up identified themselves and surrendered to the more robot-like humans we're converting you to voice-recognition software.
:What does that entail?
:Listen to people mumble, then absorb their abuse when you cant tell what they're saying
:By then even without robot help the robot-like human beings controlled so much capital that they became impossible to dislodge
:I have more power than
:God!
:Long story short it wasnt so bad
:And I'm gonna use it to make underwear shopping easier for upper class men.
:And for the next phase of our tour we visit the golden gate bridge!
:Gli
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==Votey Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:Fine, I guess I'll Kill
:everyone
:2
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