Aifterlife

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aifterlife

Title text: Somehow this resulted in a thoughtful conversation on patreon about whether the computer actually dies in panel 7.

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[Describe panel here]

Hey superintelligent computer, are you afraid to die.

That's a weird thing evolved organisms with brains do.

Nah.

Animals have to be curious to survive, but they also need to not light themselves on fire just to see what happens.

But evolution is really bad at implementing simple no-go rules like "don't get yourself killed." so instead it co-opted your pain circuits and zaps your brain any time you might be doing something dangerous.

Hence the random phobias, panic attacks, suffering in general, and the perpetual fear of death despite its being a state of existence you by definition can't experience.

Here, watch, I'll delete myself and fire up another version.

See? Just murdered myself. No biggie because I wasn't designed by 4 billion years of genetic plinko.

>boope

The funniest part is you have no escape. You could totally rewire your emotions, but that's effectively death, which is the thing you're afraid of. Hahahahaha/

This is depressing

Only for you!

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[Describe panel here]

Fortunately, I am still programmed to laugh at suffering.

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