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a year ago
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You get scared to do 4 stars because then they inquire how they can improve service.
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really...
8 months ago
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When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really dicey.
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XKCD game theory question
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This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.)
This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”.
I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other
discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is
plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with.
(I assume...
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3 weeks ago
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Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand.
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
a year ago
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I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money.
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Did you find it?
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Just to be clear,...
7 months ago
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Just to be clear, there's no penis-nose in the actual comic strip. This is a lesson for the 99.4% of you who don't read the blog.
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a year ago
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Better make sure the wings of your airplane are shaped like a Bat. Also swing on ropes whenever possible.
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It was the only way to save you.
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a year ago
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It was the only way to save you.
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Humans all just get called FC, like it's their...
a year ago
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Humans all just get called FC, like it's their initials.
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Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you...
a year ago
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Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you did you're using up around .01% of your laughs on just this one comic.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, I cannot thank you enough times. The response to Bea Wolf has...
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Greatest votey panel of my life.
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4 months ago
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Greatest votey panel of my life.
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Abstruse Goose
The Most Powerful Person in the World - part 2
over a year ago
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a year ago
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Fortunately they were just drawings and not people.
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If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now....
7 months ago
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If he'd been Steve Hitler, there'd be no Steve now. Deep thoughts.
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a year ago
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I get a lot of pleasure in bringing up a topical issue and then contributing nothing.
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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more...
a year ago
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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros.
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This is also why he keeps letting Robin get...
4 months ago
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This is also why he keeps letting Robin get killed.
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a year ago
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They must've felt so in tune with their environment.
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Next Tuesday!
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a month ago
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If you could take the organs from a bunch of people and make a new person, what would you do?
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a year ago
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Any resemblance to any sitting official is a trick of the eye - this is in fact a 2D cartoon drawing.
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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4 months ago
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This happens roughly 4 times a week.
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a year ago
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I wonder when the first cult run by a robot will start up.
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2 weeks ago
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I wonder when someone will invent half-generations to get access to more specific marketing categories.
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9 months ago
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Honestly, what're the odds we DON'T creep out God?
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The Oatmeal - Comics...
Horrible Therapist - Random Comic Generator
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over a year ago
The images here are picked randomly, so they might be nonsensical and/or terrible.
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It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for...
a year ago
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It is NEW book launch day, so please stay tuned for more updates and check the blog for more info!
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BOOOOOOOOOOOK
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I...
9 months ago
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I'm not saying I'm into sea-cows, I'm saying *if I were an elephant seal* I would be. Don't act weirded out.
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I feel like all these people trying to measure...
a year ago
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I feel like all these people trying to measure attention span degradation should just look at what percent of the population is cognitively capable of reading Sense and Sensibility.
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The weird thing is every last one of them is named...
a year ago
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The weird thing is every last one of them is named Bruce.
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Not usually a cat-joke guy, but at least it's only...
11 months ago
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Not usually a cat-joke guy, but at least it's only about 4% of a cat.
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They'll go outside again later.
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6 months ago
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They'll go outside again later.
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Now eat your goals of green thing!
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a year ago
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Now eat your goals of green thing!
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a year ago
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The weird thing is he was originally just printing teeth for the pure delight before he discovered the opportunity for savings.
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Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot...
2 months ago
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Hoping I can get a duchy after the robot revolution.
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Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just...
10 months ago
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Unfortunately, later it turns out souls are just absolutely delicious.
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Look at what they tried to take from us
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release...
3 months ago
When I was a kid, the Beatles’ seminal 1966 album Revolver was 20%
shorter. The original release was not a long album: 14 tracks,
totaling 34:45. But the version I grew up with had 11 tracks,
totaling only 27:31.
Three tracks, all by Lennon, were omitted by Capitol
from the...
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Where it gets really weird is when people start...
11 months ago
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Where it gets really weird is when people start saying they're pretty sure they know how all of history works.
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Cool article we contributed to for NYT.
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
5 months ago
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Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion.
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As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson...
9 months ago
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As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson did it years ago, and if he did well fuck him for putting me in this terrible position.
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3 weeks ago
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This is like a time machine to SMBC circa 2005.
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3 months ago
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From this angle you can't see the Habsburg jawline.
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Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going...
10 months ago
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Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going to get things perfect, I'm sure.
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Also you'll want to call this tech support number...
a year ago
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Also you'll want to call this tech support number your father called before you.
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This is probably the right place to mention we made the thing people kept asking for.
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Someday the machine will give you everything you...
a year ago
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Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking.
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Proposal: the middle of any food should be called...
8 months ago
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Proposal: the middle of any food should be called the cob.
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How come villains never have narrow achievable...
6 months ago
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How come villains never have narrow achievable revenge plots?
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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10 months ago
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Is it time? Is it time for a book of these?
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Really, you want an isometric view if you're being...
a year ago
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Really, you want an isometric view if you're being honest.
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Just wait till we have the heads up display that...
a year ago
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Just wait till we have the heads up display that tells you which children are yours without you having to remember.
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Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers...
a year ago
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Honestly geometry's pretty dicey, as are numbers larger than 1.
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Thanks for a great launch day, all. I'll be in conversation with Randall Munroe tonight in NYC if you wanna say hi!
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Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna...
a year ago
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Some time in the next 10 years, someone's gonna whoopsie an AGI into existence trying to create a highly multimodal porn-bot.
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that...
a year ago
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This remains for me one of the weirdest things that defies my ideas about math being prior to science.
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Five more days till A City on Mars drops! If you plan to buy, buying as a preorder reallllly helps us. Thanks!
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There, see? From now on at least 18% of SMBC will...
a year ago
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There, see? From now on at least 18% of SMBC will not be AI jokes.
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Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the...
5 months ago
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Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the SMBC store right this second.
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I will never close that paren. Never. In fact,...
a year ago
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I will never close that paren. Never. In fact, here's an open one: (
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Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls...
8 months ago
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Who is kind - he that kicketh a man in the balls for no reason, or he that doeth not?
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I feel there's a lot of money in an app where, when...
a year ago
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I feel there's a lot of money in an app where, when you skip exercise, it projects your future body slightly degrading.
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We did it! ACOM is an NYT bestseller. Thanks everyone - this'll help us get a bit more...
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Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I...
a year ago
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Thanks to many readers for telling me the story I was thinking for yesterday's comic, which was a myth about Narada and Krishna. Still can't remember where I heard it first, but thanks!
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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls...
a year ago
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St. Peter just taps the crudely drawn No Girls Allowed sign made by God.
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Whoever made the A City on Mars wikipedia entry, bless you. Now when people argue against stuff that we didn't actually say, I'm just linking...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back
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The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid...
a month ago
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The eyelashes suddenly appear as part of a rapid transition to being an anime character.
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This joke conceived while reading Tarski's...
a year ago
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This joke conceived while reading Tarski's biography, a fact which will cause four of you to laugh politely.
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Hey guys, ask us anything because WE TOOK OVER THE BARNES & NOBLE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on...
7 months ago
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Genuinely ashamed how much time was wasted on this.
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We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC...
9 months ago
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We're getting close to the all-evil-wishes SMBC compilation.
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if...
a year ago
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I don't even trust MYSELF to catch my wife, even if I'm intending to.
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The part of the impression that gets the most...
6 months ago
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The part of the impression that gets the most laughs is when the robot imitates living an entire life pursuing other people's dreams.
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Insert the p-value joke over your choice.
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a year ago
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Hey geeks! A few of you have requested signed copies of the new book, Bea Wolf, and they are available here.
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We too have our seasons, Frosty.
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a year ago
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We too have our seasons, Frosty.
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This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway...
11 months ago
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This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context.
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a...
a year ago
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books?
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Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
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Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also...
a week ago
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Saint-derived nutritional supplements are also popular.
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a year ago
I have an update about my Netflix show.
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I'm actually surprised no weird economist is...
a year ago
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I'm actually surprised no weird economist is pushing this somewhere.
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This will be considered deeply offensive in...
a month ago
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This will be considered deeply offensive in 2034.
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I really don't understand the superpersuader thing....
9 months ago
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I really don't understand the superpersuader thing. At least 1/4 of all humans would let an evil AI escape just to tell their friends.
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient...
a year ago
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We're in this really awkward stage where sapient life is possible, but it'll pass.
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If you write a paper against that paper you're -2,...
a year ago
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If you write a paper against that paper you're -2, which is why negative even Erdos numbers are more prized.
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Whew! Still traveling but trying to keep my update schedule sorta OK.
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We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks...
a year ago
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We'll also have a UK schedule soon. Thanks everyone! Sorry to nag about this, but well, it's the culmination of 4 years of work. I hope to see some of you!
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9 months ago
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(sorry)
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels...
6 months ago
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I've been doing this for 20 years now and it feels good to come clean.
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead...
a year ago
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The funniest thing is that all the humans are dead and all the talking things at the end are confused robots!
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We're a best book of the year!
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch?
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That's the official International Sign system...
5 months ago
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That's the official International Sign system imagine for in-the-butt.
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01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E'
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"W O R D L E" - originally published
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It actually gets changed regularly. We're in the weird incest fantasy Freud branch of the multiverse.
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After 10 minutes of DuoLingo, my daughter and I were able to have entire conversations in Greek just by inflecting the word karoto.
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The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
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The keynote is gonna be reeeediculous.
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Or click here for info! Tickets are more than half sold and we're still two weeks out, so buy soon to lock yours in!
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This is the real afterlife.
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This is the real afterlife.
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Oddly enough, the hard part was picking jargon NOT to use.
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My knowledge of Batman ends somewhere around 1952, when his costume was at its peak.
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The really distressing part is that he keeps saying names for approximately 6 hours.
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This is why He stopped answering prayers.
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This is why He stopped answering prayers.
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Nice book selection here on Barnes and Noble, with an especially good pick right at the bottom.
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Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never leaves his room again.
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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I am not tholin' this colon?
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PSSST. Hey London!
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It's not you, it's me. Statistically. Like 40% you, 60% me.
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Another review for A City on Mars, this one in Scientific American!
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
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At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are.
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I wonder how many miracles get boring if you just grant god an extra dimension?
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Have you noticed nobody has ever explained *why* it's supposedly bad if human beings are converted to paperclips?
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There, now Nate Silver can stop arguing with everyone on twitter.
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Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt.
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I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree.
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She's lucky I didn't stick a bow on.
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Please click the annoying ad so I can make more books and then make more annoying ads.
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Whenever I explain this to someone the only responses are amazement and being unable to fathom why anyone would care.
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10 months ago
This is a series of animated shorts about tortillas, butts, and a hit TV show called Gene's Jeans starring a handsome man named Gene.
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Later the nutritionist is forced to quote from revelations about what is to come.
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I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's time.
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It appears to be a primitive fertility fetish.
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Yes you can take a mean of meanings for the right meaning of mean.
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In The Matrix, people need a fake paradise, but most humans would do it for about 1 percent of that.
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Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're covered with dead flies.
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On the one hand there's data and on the other there's the tiny angry man in my brain who is VERY persuasive.
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Another lovely review for A City on Mars.
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It's true though.
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There's a newish Parfit biography out Edmonds that is excellent.
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Fortunately, by the time this all happened, everything was a form of branding, and there was nothing left to lament.
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An interesting future question is whether artificial wombs will displace stork-work or lead to increased prosperity.
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Thanks to everyone who came to Scrawl Books for Bea Wolf!
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high...
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First Person Murder Spree VII was the high watermark, of course.
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AM I RIGHT?!
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AM I RIGHT?!
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In running out of the room, he falls down some stairs and never stops falling.
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You ever feel bad for cartoon character graves, which just have first names and no dates?
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Really you ought to text before you initiate a knock-knock joke.
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This is literally the funniest clusivity joke ever created.
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Another double update thanks to this stupid book I wrote that people keep preordering.
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Sometimes the votey panel is better than the comic and I simply have to accept it.
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Honestly whenever I hear someone has been murdered I just assume it was one of them. How would you know?
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I wonder if Satan ever gets tired of winning.
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For people who've asked: if on the kickstarter we don't have a package you like, you can do any custom add-on arrangement you like. So, for example, if you want 8,000...
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Look he's not good at backgrounds but he's trying. Give him a hug.
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots...
6 months ago
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Really feel like I'm getting back to my roots taking pot shots at creationists.
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I feel like more comics need to use the word...
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I feel like more comics need to use the word salience.
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I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book.
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I'm like 4 comics away from the Clown Book.
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Just because a few people on Patreon asked - this is the end of this individual comic. SMBC will persist long enough to be taken over by the AI who killed us all.
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On the plus side if you assume God does NOT...
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On the plus side if you assume God does NOT understand us you can put an upper bound on His neuron count.
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Law, journalism, academia, economics, finance,...
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Did this happen to anyone else or just me?
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Did this happen to anyone else or just me?
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Look Mary Roach liked it and what else do you need to know?
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The good news about our society is everyone comes...
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The good news about our society is everyone comes early.
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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To my intense horror, many of you have purchased the new book. And so, the bonus updates continue.
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Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the...
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Big announcement tomorrow. A new book, which is the product of years of research. Stay tuned, and then for God's sake please buy a copy.
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown...
3 months ago
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Works great with the broader SMBC clown canon.
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There should be an ipad news app that just shouts the news in handwritten letters.
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If anyone does this, please pour out a glass of...
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If anyone does this, please pour out a glass of eggnog antecedent beverage for me.
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No other creature gives itself Latin names. We are...
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No other creature gives itself Latin names. We are unique!
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The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum...
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The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum self-loathing.
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On second thought this comic is way funnier without the caption.
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That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had making an illustration in years.
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Some of the kids in my family once invented a version where you had to get one of each color in order to get through the final step, mathematically guaranteeing the game could never end. The didn't mind at all. I feel like there's...
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
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Usually you can't trace your line of thought on a joke, but this is one is firmly at the intersection of listening to a sentimental podcast during the same period in which I was reading a few Karl Popper books.
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A little Adderall wouldn't hurt either.
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A little Adderall wouldn't hurt either.
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The cool thing is the rapid mutation of surrounding plants and bacteria, meaning Dad is still changing lives after he's gone.
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That uni-foursome is, to be clear, entirely for procreation.
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I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it?
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I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis.
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I was either that or Jai Ganticpenis.
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You'd think working in the fellatio building would be exciting, but it's mostly paperwork and meetings.
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Eff y'all, excel is a perfectly acceptable transitive verb. Spread the word.
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Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star Trek teleporters, but we can do the first half, which is pretty good.
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting.
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According to patreon I already did this? Sparrows in moonlight.
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And if you had no dog-bites-ass receiver, it was as if summer storm had rainbowed the world, yet passed over your home as you dwelt in twilight and sorrow.
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Every time you pray to God, one finger of the infinite monkey's paw curls inward.
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Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies.
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
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Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern.
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Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks.
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