Existential Comics
Existential Comics
@existentialcomics.com
A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes.
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Behold this issue's @existentialcomics.com by Corey Mohler: a very short history of #metaphysics in the Western thought. Explore in our new issue 176: philosophynow.org
"Acting on their own" is an absurd way to phrase this. These "agents" don't have agency, they just sit there until you tell them to do a task. They were instructed to do *something* by a human, and perhaps misbehaved, but they didn't just decide out of nowhere to start gathering government info.
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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AI executives are saying we are approaching the singularity, but AI still can not solve the "dumbest boy alive" problem, i.e. knowing that Saturday is next to Sunday, i.e. the dumbest argument in the history of the internet as outlined by @jonbois.bsky.social So yeah I think we are safe for now.
What's funny is that when I last checked if it could solve this, around a year ago, I had to prime it before suggesting 4 days a week myself. This time it straight up suggested 4 days a week itself. And for those unacquainted with the greatest documentary history: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECj...
100% in favor of this. I'm sure it will get even BETTER reviews and make even MORE money than Christopher Nolan's version. It will prove once and for all that morons with a computer can create art better than artist.
JUST IN: Elon Musk says Grok will make a "full-length movie" of The Odyssey that is "historically accurate" by the end of this year.
David Attenborough voice: "here we see the indigenous Falklander preparing a tradition meal, known by the locals as "bangers and mash". Meals like this, strange as they may seem to us, have been prepared by his ancestors on these islands for the last dozens of years."
England - Argentina continuing to generate DISCOURSE even after the match, what glorious times we live in