2025 8th Jan comment ... Series dropped before ChatGPT blew up

It's only deterministic when you don't konw the outcome. If you can see the outcome, you can defy it and take a different path.

The amount of people I have tried to convince to watch this… it takes a special kind of people. UNDERRATED. Still waiting to meet someone IRL to gush about it to. Also, I need to buy this on DVD. 🧐

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2024

When this video had more than 10k views It was absolutely an amazing gem Now it still is, but you much closer to this scene

I watched this entire series while completely off my tits on ketamine. Highly recommend it

this scene was really powerful. But Lilly making her own decision kind of destroys the whole point. I don't understand why she was able to do that.

One thing that always bothered me about this scene is that it's a view of the visualization chamber that's inverted left and right, but also, we as the audience only hear the audio that's projected 1 second ahead. What about the audio the people 1 second ahead are hearing? They are hearing the audio from 1 second ahead, and those people 2 seconds ahead are hearing the audio 3 seconds ahead, and so on, for however many seconds the projection lasts. You should be able to faintly hear the very last thing that occurs in that scene the moment the projection starts. And it will catch up to the 'present' a second before it closes. We should be faintly hearing "turn it off" just as stewart starts the projection. Ad Nauseum Ad Infinitum. It's a joke about advertisements. The entire box is a metaphor for television (like how the monolith in 2001:A Space Odyssey is a metaphor for a movie screen). The Devs Team are kind of trapped, transfixed, as observers within, seeing themselves, playing their roles slavishly, unable to interfere even if they wanted to, even if they tried to. They are literally watching the world go by, unable to fundamentally change anything, unless they understand that both Free Will and Determinism are illusions. The screen and everything in it are just illusions. Pictures on a screen. None of it is real. Stewart is saying it's not just a simulation, it contains everything including itself, but the people in the projection aren't reacting to seeing themselves in the future. They are reacting to seeing themselves in the past. It's a big lie. We are watching ACTORS ON A SCREEN REACTING TO AN IMPOSSIBLE IMAGE. There's no camera facing them and yet the image is inverted. Forest even makes a joke while watching a back projection of dinosaurs that "this isn't as good as jurassic park". How much more obvious can it be? There's also that whole scene where they are watching Jesus be crucified. They are seeing it in what they describe as "a blizzard". Why don't they just describe how we, the audience, ALWAYS described it? "Snow"? It's like a tv on-the-fritz. It's atmospheric noise. It's what old televisions used to show us when there was no reception. Because it might be too on-the-nose if they said "snow". Until they fix the issue with the bad reception they see the projection as having lots of snow. Linden fixes it and then the picture is nice and clear, but then it goes back to snow beyond a certain point in the future, which signifies the end of the show. From the character's perspective, that is the literal end of their existence. The show literally ends there at the final episode. But the character violates the script as gets sent back to the beginning to live her life differently. A lot of the show is really about people being addicted to media in one form or another. Katie and Lily are the characters who are least attached to images. They are characterized as people who are strong-willed, not satisfied with the easy way out, but Lily believes her actions are a free choice. She believes this because she doesn't look, she acts. She's an actor playing a part in a show, but she cannot fundamentally escape the show. She is dead in both scenarios. She breaks the fourth wall by going against the script. Literally shatters through the looking glass only to be suffocated inside the vacuum. Inescapable. But she survives to play a new role in a new show at the very end. Lily represents someone who goes and makes her own story, she takes action, she takes initiative, she acts decisively and bravely, she doesn't delay, she doesn't wait for something to make her do something, she keeps fighting and fighting to the very end. Forest represents someone who is unable to look away. He's completely obsessed with the pictures on the screen. His eyes look weary and tired, but his stare is intense. He is observant and attentive. A spectator. He watches the watcher (the spy literally uses a CAMERA hidden in a WATCH FACE which is pointed at the camera (us in the audience)), and kills him for it.

One thing I think people fail to understand from what Stewart said is that it's no longer a simulation. If the 'box' is making a multi-world interpertation prediction of literally everything that can, could, and has happened that makes it no different than the 'real world' and similarly some of those 'sims' will have their own version of 'the box'. The box contains us, the box contains everything, and inside the box, there's another box. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. That machine is quite literally the Universe itself. The Universe has itself created the Universe, Multiverse, and Deus. Or as Lyndon put it: 'it's a perfect circle, it's beautiful'. There is no simulation. There is no real or real-er world. It's all and has always been the box. 'Uh oh'.

where to buy this version ?

I watched this when i was on edibles…Changed my life.

The part where the machine can simulate itself is the sci-fi part IRL we run into the limits of computing and the halting problem

Such a good scene

Sounds like he is saying one second protection, But that Doesn't make sense.The word should be projection

Bernard?

that was one of the most disturbing scenes without violence ive ever seen. great job, alex and theam of devs!

Lo que es mas terrorifico es el hecho de que no puedan acceder a su "libre albedrio". Un hecho tan aterrador como ver que estas obligado, no fisicamente, sino cuanticamente, a jugar el juego de la vida con unas reglas ya escritas e imposibles de desobedecer. El solo saber que el conocimiento de un solo segundo en el futuro determina que no tienes el control de tu vida, es suficiente para arruinar a cualquier persona. Que la causa no es provocado por nosotros, sino que ya estuvo calculado desde el inicio de los tiempos. Como relata en esta escena, hay una caja adentro de una caja, que contiene otra caja, infinitamente (haciendo referencia a la simulación). La simulación de un segundo en el futuro simula otra simulación de la cual reaccionan cuando se ven en la pantalla, infinitamente. Ellos describen a la tierra como la verdadera "realidad" ya que no existia semejante tecnologia para tener una simulación 99.99% identica a la realidad, donde en ese momento, se dan cuenta que muy probablemente estén dentro de una simulación, y que no habría ninguna manera de saberlo.

Shoes and clothes were scattered everywhere 👀

sentient world simulation already happening

Even an infinitely powerful computer wouldn't be able to predict the future if the prediction was allowed to be part of the equation. The computer could only predict the world without influencing it in anyway. It's not that it would make a wrong prediction, it would never be able to complete the equation at all since it would have to know the end result before it has solved the equation.

What I love about this show is that it gives normies a pause to think for a second whether they truly have the kind of free will they think they have, something physicists (and now neuroscientists and biologists like Sam Harris and Sapolsky, too) have been saying for decades, that you really don't have contra-causal free will, the ability to change our future. Lucky are those that never break this illusion, 'cause it's hard to deal with.

Thufir Hawat doing mentat calculations

"I would just do something different" - you see, you can't. The reason is that the thoughts in your brain are actually predeterminated (at least in the world presented in the series). Let's suppose projection shows that you'll raise your hand up. And you will do this, because 1 second later atoms in your brain will be in that position that they form a thought about raising you hand up. The most scariest part here that it's not like "oh no, my hand is moving and i can't control it" - it's not just a neural impulse, this is a full-fledged thought, which is just a state of atoms. People was sure that they form their thoughts by themselves, and now the machine shows them that they actually aren't. They are scared by the realization of that. Ironically, this stressful thoughts was also predeterminated. And they have nothing to do with that but experience one's powerlessness.

heck give me a 2. second projection and i woulda broke the dang thing being erratic

Now we are HERE

From reading the comments, it feels like a lot of people missed the entire point of this scene, thus the entire concept of the show. It's not about simulations, it's about determinism v. free will

imagine getting scared when watching security camera footage

The point isn’t the insanity, it’s the arbitrary reasoning.

Reminds me of Futurama s5e10 with the universe contained in a box. This one kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWG4nJd8qNCqm9Usi=xASXW1hQUCXmle8p

And this..... Is why AI is a REALLY BAD IDEA. just wait until a Brutal Dictator can map entire days ahead of time, manipulate an economy and collapse the world for fun. Maybe we have done this before and we just loop over and over. Create then Destroy. Repeat...

And GO 🕺🏼

Haha u

*puts a blanket on Mario and tucks him in*

I hope that we don’t advance that far, we’ll not yet.

Will there be another season?

you got that right brother!

One hell of a way to make a point.

who here after watching black mirror's new season

I would simply not do what the projection shows me

IMO all one of them had to do was stop freaking out (easier said than done)... carefully watch what their onscreen counterpart does in the future... and then just do something different and you break the system or split into another reality or whatever.

The way this was written, shot, and acted....is brilliant. It's such a simple concept....but it clearly took a lot of thought to make it work on screen. What a brilliant little show. Definitely had me aching for a second season. Left me wanting more big time...

Whats that quote he says right at the end of the clip?

Where did you get the video rights?

I wish this were a 10min scene where they left the projection going until they were all rocking on the ground in fetal position with crippling anxiety.

- It doesn't contain us. - ... One second projection.

Omg 😊

Blows my mind every time I see it

observer's paradox. cool idea, pretentious execution

This is easily the best scene in the whole show.