It’s a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_knife

The joke is that the user is asked for their mother’s maiden name, and they think it’s a website/application on the laptop. However, it’s actually the laptop itself that’s asking. The laptop then starts romancing the user’s mother, telling the user that their mother’s maiden name won’t remain that for long, presumably because the laptop plans on marrying the mother.

As @agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works points out, that’s not actually how maiden names work though. Your maiden name stays the same before and after marriage, it’s your last name that changes.

I think the joke would’ve worked better if the user responded “She doesn’t have one” and the laptop replied “She will soon!!” or something like that.

Thanks for transcribing and adding the links!

It would’ve made the joke a little more verbose, but this would also have worked:

>>> 1.1 + 2.2
3.3000000000000003

Read the whole story in the Krabzaam Zine:

• Several entirely new pages of the Krabzaam saga that couldn’t be contained on the lil’ old internet.
• Cameos from NBA stars, including Jimmy Butler and Lebron James!
• Signed by the artist!
• 16 pages. Color.
• Comes with a FREE Krabzaam sticker

If you’re looking for it, seems like it’s this one:

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4730

I see the first part you pasted in a footnote, but not the second part.

I think it’s also a little thrown off by the phrasing. “That’s my last day in this second-rate lab!” is kind of a setup for a punchline where they don’t get to advance and are stuck in the same lab, but that doesn’t seem to be the joke here. It would probably work better with the second panel first, and then an “Earlier” narrative box, and just “Behold! An instant sex change pill!”

If you put something in a code block, it will ignore all formatting:

F*ck cens*rsh*p

Otherwise, generally backslashes (\) disable markdown characters:

F*ck cens*rsh*p

I think we generally agree with each other. The existence of an omniscient AI or deity doesn’t change the “experience” of free will. It doesn’t “invalidate choice” from the point of view of the observed. It does “invalidate choice” from the point of view of the observer, who can now say “This thing exhibits no unpredictable behavior to me”. You and I both think we have free will, because we can’t predict our own behavior. Our experience is unchanged, whether or not some other observer exists or could exist that could predict our behavior.

Agreeing on a frame of reference is exactly my point. “Does something have free will?” requires the follow-up question, “According to whom?”. Just like “I’m far from that rock” requires the followup question, “According to whom?”. The ant might think you’re far from the rock, something else might think you’re near the rock.

To boil it down a bit more, my point is just that you can always replace the phrase “free will” in speech with “unpredictable behavior” without loss of meaning, because that is what people actually mean when they say it, whether they realize that or not.

We’re not “relieved” of free will. It’s not an intrinsic property that one “has”. It would be like having “big” or “near”. You don’t “have” big, it’s a relative term.

It’s simply a description of observed behavior. That’s all it really is in the end, even though people treat it as this super mysterious thing.

Why not? It might seem absurd, but can you prove they don’t “choose” to flit about here or there? A super-intelligent AI might also be able to “pierce the veil” and determine the underlying mechanics, like a video game character determining the math behind the random number generator that powers their world.

That’s also only one interpretation of quantum mechanics, mechanistic interpretations aren’t ruled out (though a number of variants have been).

Free will is incompatible with omniscience. People really want it to work, but it doesn’t.

Free will is observer-dependent, and is short for “I can’t predict the behavior of this thing”. For an omniscient observer, there is no thing that it can say that about.

Free will is not an inherent property of a thing, and that’s what trips people up so much.

To ponder it a bit, does a rock have free will? A dog? A human? A super-intelligent AI that we can’t hope to comprehend? Why or why not for each step?

The definition above explains it all. Of course a rock doesn’t, we can predict its behavior with physics! Maybe a monkey does, people disagree on that. Of course human do though, because I do!

Now ponder what the super-intelligent AI would think. “Of course the first three don’t have free will, their behavior is entirely predictable with physics”

This boils down to the best of all possible worlds argument, already well-skewered in Candide centuries ago.

Why create the world exactly the way it was? Is it impossible to create it, so that of their own free will, one more person makes the “right” choice? That’s some sorry omnipotence if so. If not one person, why not two? And so on, until you face the question of, “Why not create the world so that everyone, of their own free will, makes the ‘right’ decision”.

Calvinists are intellectually brave enough to accept the metaphysical consequences of their beliefs. Others, not so much.

What jurisdiction? In the US, factual information that you simply compile likely isn’t copyrightable, there’s been some court cases about e.g. telephone books:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc._v._Rural_Telephone_Service_Co.

Won’t stop big companies from harassing you if they feel like it, though. Nintendo is petty enough that they might

Yeah, turns out a lot of companies don’t really think about security, here’s a DEF CON talk where they find stuff that chokes on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcbAMO6sxo

I don’t really know, tbh. It feels like a reference to something I’m unaware of. Sometimes they reference current events, like the Coldplay concert kiss cam thing.

That sort of exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

What is best in life?

Plug for the !ccp@discuss.online community I started to celebrate the creative commons and public domain. I’ve been posting the wikimedia picture of the day there daily, and other sorts of posts including questions like this are very welcome!