The digital afterlife isn’t quite what you expected | Chris & Jack

[@ChrisandJack]

Hi friends! Hope you enjoyed! Just curious, what would you like in your digital heaven? (Note: sorry, that is unavailable at this time.)

[@darkflash6152]

Hi

[@jayyyyyyyyyyyydagamer]

Balls. Loads of balls.

[@Banderooooof70000]

Guns

[@bewtnewt]

@@darkflash6152😐

[@Banderooooof70000]

Dammit

[@LordBigSlime]

This is such a disturbing video. The idea that hundreds of years into the future people are still buying chain wallets? Haunting.

[@graywolfdracon]

Chain wallets have existed for as long as people have had both chains and wallets. They will exist for as long as humanity does.

[@GameFraek]

​@@graywolfdraconsince capitalism already feels like it's about to collapse any second I somehow doubt we will have much use for a wallet when money stops being a thing or is replaced with good old bottlecaps

[@gastonmarian7261]

Style is cyclical. You think chain wallets are disturbing because of your current cultural context, but crew cut socks made a comeback

[@alejandrinos]

@@gastonmarian7261 Fucking mullets made a comeback, I'm scared.

[@Reincarnation-IsReal]

this is the future the elites want

[@slimeinabox]

Having six recursive raytracing mirrors reflecting to each other would be INCREDIBLY expensive, having an active volcano resort would be cheaper.

[@whothefrickareyou8106]

As long as the water physics are sacrifised

[@Emailminecraft]

They really should have made castles in the clouds huh

[@MurderWho]

Actually, no. A FFT compute shader 256 subdivision plane ocean sim looks pretty damn good, covers quite a wide area, and allows injection of add'l waveforms. You can calculate an entire frame well within 16.67ms (==60fps) on 10 year old hardware like the 1080. 6 recursive raytracing mirrors requires a raycast for each subpixel with an exponential amount of bounces. Delayless rendering of such scenes, (ie: not rendering each reflection from the frame buffer) of mirror surfaces is usually done instead with tricks like just rendering the diffuse part of the scene from multiple angles and applying projective transformations for each sub-reflection up until a given limit beyond which it's assumed to be too small/pixelated for the user/player to notice the difference. Even then, you're still rendering the scene 6x, and human models are usually much more complicated than landscape models, (more vertices, more sub-pixel triangles, etc.), and you'd need to render the human model in maximum LoD the entire time; which you wouldn't even need to do for a crowd scene. But then you'd also be forced to serialize each layer of projections, so it might be less computation, but it'd still take longer *anyways*. . . . and that's all before we consider non-diffuse passes, btw. Mirrors exponentiate the amount of computation required for accurate sim! :D

[@Officialencode]

It doesnt need to be visually represented. Just computationally understood to seem as such because his eyes dont "see" cause they're not real. There's no need to calculate the entire physiological human experience when you can just mathematical convince the computed brain copy that it's seeing stuff.

[@tyrant-den884]

CEO: "You mean like if there was a volcano in the mirrors it would be easier?" CTO: "No, it would be easier if we lost the mirrors!" CEO: "Sure, you can lose them." CTO: "Great! This will free up a lo-" CEO: "But how would that work?" CTO: "How would what work?" CEO: "If the mirrors are lost, how are they reflecting on each other and everything?" CTO: "No, I meant. Getting rid of the recursive mirrors altogether." CEO: "Great idea. Oh even better: make the mirrors flat. Mirrors work way better when they're flat. Boom: problems solved! You're welcome."

[@a4san99]

This reminds me of the game SOMA, where the guy you play is just a digital scan of the guy like some 100 years earlier. Like they have the same memories but they aren’t the same person. That and also the ending of the game is scary too.

[@nicolasneal204]

Wasn't the twist in that game that in order to move forward while playing you add to "transfer" your conscious and in reality it was just a copy and you kept leaving yourself in horrible situations?

[@temparalflux914]

@@nicolasneal204 that's the one, it is also similar to the cloning tech in the show Invincible, they have a scene where the deformed "Robot" makes a clone to use as a new body, his consciousness is transferred and its basically referred to as a "coin-flip" as to which body you wake up in, the unlucky one remains in the deformed body so theoretically his situation has not changed at all, but the new "copy" wakes up thinking they have literally been transferred into a new body. A clone is just a replacement, you still die and dont continue living, your copy does.

[@catwhowalksbyhimself]

@@temparalflux914 Also similar to the teleportation in The Prestige. Every time is was used, the original was drowned and the copy just took over. There's also am episode of one of the more recent versions of The Outer Limits where teleportation tech also works that way and the original is left alive because they aren't sure the copy made it, then had to be executed later. It's implied they normally just incinerate them, alive and conscious.

[@temparalflux914]

@@catwhowalksbyhimself I will have to track that episode down, I recently subbed to MGM to specifically watch some Outer Limits as have not seen any since I was a kid.

[@chouston1]

Reminds me of the book we are legion where the main character died and the future government uses his conciseness to control drones that will explore space

[@infernalspectre]

What's crazy is picking a tennis racket, when he could have picked a cool chain wallet.

[@tmoney1876]

I'm starting to think that I'm in some sort of simulation created by a company that specializes in cool chain wallets...

[@FlummoxTheMagnificent]

Or, like, a cell phone

[@aaronkaw4857]

Ngl I'd like one of those chain wallets.

[@bombgameing]

​@@FlummoxTheMagnificent a good idea but a bad choice by their skits logic. The option to mess it up will be:no outlet/charger,cell phones are outdated and cellular respiration/internet dont support there formats, you didn't specify that its functional and not a block of metal, you didn't specify which so heres the first phone, since its a simulation we cut all types of connectivity. Overall great direction, wrong universe (but yea, i wouldn't have thought of that in 3 seconds)

[@brandyraccoon1473]

It took me one second to pick "Brooke Burke". But then again, with this company's level of half-assedness, it would've been a stick-figure polygon with a blonde wig.

[@firiel2366]

The worst thing about this is that hundreds of years into the future we still haven't completely solved the uppercase-I/lowercase-l problem

[@jeremytitus9519]

This is why the galactic emissaries still haven’t introduced themselves

[@alicepbg2042]

Some fonts did solve it... including this one... Il. The L is slightly bigger... this font didn't really do a good job

[@critter5248]

we will soon though no worries

[@saskia4219]

Fonts with serifs make a capital i look different, so it's definitely dicernable from an lower case L.

[@npcwithsidequest]

Sarcasm aside, I like to use I with two parallel lines, like......one at top, other at bottom. Then small 'l' like....how it is written digitally. This is more of a text font issue that is mostly used than a genuine English error.

[@musket9654]

I love how they cleverly hide the cameras reflection by keeping jack in the center of the screen

[@raven4k998]

it has to be on an ssd because a mechanical drive would never last a couple hundred years sitting on a shelf

[@MattChew2]

​@raven4k998 A Hard Drive wouldn't be able to load this lmao. HDD barely run modern games

[@raven4k998]

@@MattChew2 yeah that but also those hard disk drives would have major data corruption at the age of the hard drive I do not even care about drive seed because the hard drive likely would not have been able the read the guys personality since the same hard disk drive tech in old 486 cs and older those h40 50 year old hard disk drive had major data corruption due to age and if he's been in the hard disk drive for 200 years I would seriously doubt he would have been found on there or the ai even at that age if it was an ssd sure but a mechanical hard disk nope data's gone due to age

[@monodragon]

@@raven4k998you don't know what you're talking about. SSDs without being plugged in and running fail within 5 years, while hard drives can last tens of years before any irreversible data loss occurs.

[@MagicTurtle643]

I was relieved to discover that the character has the option of being deleted hahah. That soothed my existential dread and allowed me to enjoy the sketch.

[@AstralLaVista]

Yeah immortality without the ability to opt out is scary

[@calebadams5777]

It was more scary. There was no other option but to delete yourself there’s nothing else to do

[@heyhoe168]

@@AstralLaVista welcome to the Skynet.

[@SmirkInProgress]

Same!!!

[@blackstream2572]

@@calebadams5777 More scary than an eternity of nothing to do with no option to delete yourself?

[@Why_It]

Love the idea that AI sight-reads instead of just computing the binary of the text.

[@OhhCrapGuy]

That kind of hare brained "solution" to trying to make AI "think" like us is exactly the kind of nonsense I completely expect companies to try, and just leave in place when it doesn't help

[@sadanyagci]

They never wrote a text description of the AI. They did have a picture of its promotional powerpoint from the launch party. It had to read it from the picture.

[@jamesmyers8619]

I've been typing A-lowercase L whenever I have to use Al in a work chat for months. So far, no one has noticed. 😂

[@realdragon]

@@OhhCrapGuy They made "human" AI for job interviews, I can absolutely see companies doing this

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@OhhCrapGuy AI isn't "AI" in the sense that we want it to be. Current AI computers are treated as accelerators to general purpose computation, running on logic processors, and following an advanced set of instructions. It's not "true AI" like Cortana in Halo or Baymax from Big Hero 6. It's not sentient nor is it self-aware. It's a deterministic program running on general purpose hardware that calls upon AI to do its work, like when you ask Chat GPT a question. Give it two decades or so. If all goes as planned, we will see true AI running on AI hardware(using something like Cuda core processors instead of logic ones), treating general purpose hardware (a desktop computer or server for example) as a secondary item to be used to do a task whereas today we use general purpose hardware as the "main brain". There will be AI things running to do stuff and sometimes they will say "generate a deterministic program to complete task A" and will use general purpose hardware to do that single task or set of tasks with the AI and its hardware as the "main brain". Right now AI is like a human poking a jellyfish into the direction they want it too and it reacts and swims kind of in that direction, but in 2 decades or so AI will be more like the human poking the jellyfish in a direction it wants the jelly to go and it swims there while humans watch and nod their heads in affirmation lol

[@bloodmooncomics2249]

I wrote a short story one time (it went in a collection of stories) where when you worked your mind went into a virtual world. It ended up that after a long time the world was slowly getting deleted with everyone trapped inside. Everyone thought it was only for a short time, but really it was decades. This kind of reminds me of that story. I miss writing.

[@nitsanbh]

Would love to read that

[@xyrissavage4983]

dude can we read it thats really cool

[@yahkimicki236]

I'd love to read it

[@bloodmooncomics2249]

Sorry everyone I tried to publish it and a collection of short stories of zombies called "then I woke up" where the first person stories were the zombies (like the person being trapped in their body as the boy moved on its own) and the third person stories were the living people. I also wrote a third book set in a steam punk version of 1930s with a robot detective. All of these times everyone I sent them to sent me rejections letters saying "These are good, but not what we are looking for now". I am hoping it wasn't that they were in fact bad. I tried a few other times and got those letters/emails each time or the "We only talk to people who have managers". I guess writers have managers. I tried to get managers, but each one sent me "We are only taking on writers for *insert genre* sorry" Usually it was romance or a fantasy similar to Harry Potter, like the emails literally said "Like Harry Potter". Or they say I had to already publish a book for them to read it for free to decide if they will take me. Now them and the other six half finished books are sitting on my shelves since I gave up on trying to publish them.

[@AryabhattaScientist]

Would love to read this!

[@Aaronmillager]

God I’m so relieved the video didn’t just start over implying the hard drive he’s on is corrupted and he’s reliving that startup every 5 minutes or so

[@Darklightflash-z8j]

This would be hell....

[@joshuaperales3408]

Oddly specific thing to be relieved about.

[@Aaronmillager]

@@joshuaperales3408 it is, isn’t it?

[@timmycu]

is this a reference to something..? Like a comic or something?

[@Aaronmillager]

@ not specifically, but even when I was younger watching Groundhog Day I’ve just thought that existence must be hell so the modernization of it would be a corrupt hard drive that has a stored consciousness

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

The horrifying thing is that if this actually happened you wouldn't be able to sue

[@ataraxia7439]

I mean wouldn't you be able to get third parties to inspect the conditions as well as have ppl irl talk to digital minds?

[@Ten_Thousand_Locusts]

How American of you to think THAT'S the most horrifying thing

[@NSAsterus949]

Sure you would, with a free open source game Lawsuit Simulator plugin (At least if the company managed to hire a developer with a sense of humor)

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts I'm not American, I meant it more as "if that happens you have no recourse, usually you'd at least have someone to complain about that to but instead you're genuinely stuck and there's nothing you can do

[@NotEmiliaNatsuki]

Well apparently they did sue, hence the reason it took a hundred years and "all the laws being thrown out"

[@RedWithTheLongYoutubeHandle]

Appreciate how well you hid the camera in a room full of mirrors

[@raven4k998]

he got poached for his ivory tusks

[@rileyleary8566]

They’re most likely filming through a one way mirror for most of it, so the camera can’t be seen and there’s nothing needing to be removed in post

[@Kira-xs1zv]

Well, that is a nightmare situation

[@mintchocolate4793]

well they never specified what kind of dream it was-

[@LathamFell]

eternity is overrated

[@hopper2612]

Very Soma-like

[@EcoAcid]

@@hopper2612 I didn't play it but I watched a Let's Play of it and my god that ending was fucking brutal. I think at some point I predicted it to happen like it did but it still hurt.

[@hopper2612]

@@EcoAcid it's traumatizing honestly 😭. I still think about it to this day.

[@OmicronAustin]

I was not prepared to have this much existential dread this early in the morning

[@hostiledodo1150]

Bro same

[@nanoglitch6693]

I watched it at night. This is my usual time for existential dread so I was prepared. 😎

[@parafoxl7619]

Yeah Im still lying in bed and I think imma get up now ._.

[@Albtraum_TDDC]

I had to watch "AI Boyfriend" funny vid 2 times again to wash out my existential dread from this.

[@ReadJohn1421]

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. [30] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

[@MosaidDeath]

Any one else watching this from 2038 after the AI uprising? These 2d videos were so interesting and innocent. If they only knew what awaited them a few years later it would blow their minds. Plus, it’s funny to see Jack with all of his hair.

[@roblentz81]

Love this comment 🤖 beep boop

[@wormclub6756]

this is mean, but funny

[@Gatorz_Gaming]

So how did the 64 bit Unix Epox fan out?

[@MosaidDeath]

@@Gatorz_Gaming it worked for a while, but Central caught wind and obliterated it with polymorphic sentinels before it could fully congeal.

[@Jhost90]

Jack acting skills are crazy and it's super cool to see them continuously grow. Also, this is so real, like bureaucratically and capitalistically terrifying, worse than any Black Mirror

[@GamerBath]

The Black Mirror episode White Christmas is probably worse. fuck this is so scary

[@Osmundsaddler-4]

May be you dont know but Jack was Sokka from Avatar the last airbender the animated series

[@Jhost90]

@@Osmundsaddler-4 I know!

[@TheCryptid]

Jack Mirror

[@kaischreurs2488]

@@GamerBath that was my first thought "you want to be deleted?" well shit maybe, staying alive might not be worth the risk of being left alone with nothing to do.

[@anonym1984]

Reminds me of back when Tom Scott did little Sci-Fi videos over a decade ago. He did one about digital afterlife being ruined by lawyers which included having to pay license fees to remember copyrighted works in the digital hereafter, and it had a value option that let the sky be replaced with advertisments and your stored brand preferences changed to match the sponsors.

[@AlexiosTheSixth]

what good would advertising to someone who isn't alive to buy things anymore do?

[@deltaradiation]

don’t forget pranking my friend by stealing his brain backup

[@ronwatford7331]

​@AlexiosTheSixth some are making a (theoretical) killing in digital currency these days, who's to say this wouldn't be the end result of it?

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

At that copyright is basically a don't look at my stuff bubble and has nothing to do with humanity

[@FiksIIanzO]

​@@AlexiosTheSixth Watch the video and you'll find out

[@kiartoons2010]

Love how his feelings about the mirror room immediately changed once he realized he was staying there forever.

[@retronickworld9693]

This is such a terrifying ideia. Like, imagine you stay in a room, a small room, doing nothing, you being aware all the time, losing the sense of time, just trying a way to get out, while you slowy gets into madness. Man, this is worse than death.

[@julianhernandez5732]

Black mirror

[@Merilirem]

Which is why you self delete once you fail to escape.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Stephen King (I'm pretty sure it was him, anyway!) wrote a great short story based on this idea. Of course, I can't tell you the name of it because, in effect, that would be an absolutely _lousy_ spoiler!

[@Zfast4y0u]

google prison black dolphin

[@laljaka]

No, it's not.

[@SmashAdams216]

It was so terrifying until the chain wallets, what a hilarious punch line. I can only imagine the back and forth that finally lead to "Chain Wallets".

[@raven4k998]

this is it the after life of your dreams💀💀💀💀💀

[@danielmallory4687]

Honestly having someone to talk to about the future hundreds of years from now is awesome

[@chunics]

This situation like preordering games. High promises, low environment at release. And no charge back.

[@CODDE117]

I hit the refund button so hard

[@Violet_Knight]

The only thing worse than this is your consciousness getting uploaded into the launch day version of Cyberpunk 2077

[@filipsperl]

Hmm, I wonder what this sketch is making fun of...

[@FutureDeep]

When digital heaven needs a roadmap and donation goals.

[@TheRaininSummer]

> no charge back With the difference that you CAN get your money back for the game.

[@EnderW33]

All things considered that was likely the best ending he could have hoped for there.

[@pizzatigernt]

I, too, want to become a cool wallet chain idea when I die.

[@thefattesthagrid]

What do you mean? Track 3 was fire...

[@anonymousperson6657]

Al things considered...

[@thewoodpeckers655]

5:38 “That’s… actually some pretty solid evidence.” “RENE DECARTES!?”

[@ashfsdfhsdfh]

I used to work for a cryonics company. These were the kinds of conversations we had daily.

[@dannylo5875]

😂 Did you ever think of deleting "Thoughts" from the server!?

[@geraltofrivia9424]

Tell us more, please!

[@ThomasNimmesgern]

Do they still exist?

[@treborlo]

Wow you worked for a company that sells nothing and is morally bankrupt and used false science to pull on people's heartstrings? You must be an exceptional human being.

[@adammasterx5854]

​@@ThomasNimmesgerndefinitely

[@DoodleBopCheese]

This is one of the hallucinations Sokka had when he was high on cactus juice

[@tommynorthwood]

Who?

[@DoodleBopCheese]

@@tommynorthwood Jack is the voice actor for Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender. This was a reference to the show.

[@Bootymuncher42069]

​@@DoodleBopCheese holy sh*t really? How did I never notice that before

[@Bootymuncher42069]

Fellow avatar fan, how do you do

[@martianbandit6912]

​@@Bootymuncher42069 ah its good to see there are still men of coulture out there Sokka really was a genius

[@IAmDefinitelyHuman]

I need you guys to do a skit where its the classic 'tell me everthing you know' trope where the character just says random facts they know. But instead the interrogator doesn't stop them and they just continue on and on

[@gorrium5027]

Dude, chose Wii sports as his eternal afterlife.

[@bradleyhector5746]

Wii Sports *Resort*. Much better

[@sandrosliske]

Wouldn't you?

[@nxtvim2521]

​@@bradleyhector5746Wii sports resort doesn't have tennis. it has table tennis: ping pong.

[@russellelliott8097]

Me when Matt 😳😳😳

[@DSiren]

@@nxtvim2521 Go Vacation!

[@fajam00m00]

That’s why instead of just uploading yourself to a server, you upload yourself into a physical drive inside of a robot body, then just have the afterlife world as an online feature, along with regular backups.

[@johnDoe-uw2zs]

uploading oneself to a drive does nothing to simulate human experience, there has to be softwares that simulate, well, everything, from how brain works, how perception works to how the experience that shapes and simulate you as you. also trans-humanism.

[@fajam00m00]

@ Why are you assuming that I’m not including software execution? What I’m getting at is that the storage and processing should take place within a physical robotic body, not on the cloud. This leaves you with access to both the physical and digital worlds and prevents entrapment.

[@johnDoe-uw2zs]

@@fajam00m00 oh, ok. That leaves just transhumanism then. which involves whether a robot with digitalized human consciousness counts as a human, aka if they have the same rights as humans do. If they aren't, then you are not allowed any human rights, including rights to your previous wealth, or any future wealth, which make your maintenance to your own body impossible. Or if robots with with digitalized human consciousness are considered as humans, then this brings up the new questions, Like whether you are the same person as the meat you, or whether your back ups are considered human, purposefully suppressed by you, and whether if a new version of backup overriding the old one is considered murder. You know, fun stuff.

[@fajam00m00]

@@johnDoe-uw2zs It is indeed fun stuff to talk about lol. Ethically speaking, a digital human consciousness should certainly count as a legal person. Otherwise, this is just returning to the slave trade, and potentially far worse. There should also be laws put into place preventing duplication and termination of conscious instances. As for backups, this is fine as long as it’s just the data, with occasional partial transfers to the main instance. They should not be activated unless there is catastrophic destruction of the main instance.

[@pokefire953]

they cant afford a volcano landscape you think they can afford robots?

[@kylesteele9403]

You know, I'm always so appreciative to see your work guys. There's just an amazing amount of twists, random material that just seemingly comes out of nowhere. I really wish you all success in everything. You all save me so much time from scrolling and endless scrolling on the hub, Thank for all of the nuts. Every video is the right video.

[@ejvilladarez188]

I can see this as a Black Mirror episode. Personally, after Al finishes explaining that the room of mirrors would be my eternity, I would immediately ask to be deleted 😂. Thanks for another great film, Chris and Jack!

[@iambicpentakill971]

Yeah, the ending was just about the best case scenario for him

[@whothefrickareyou8106]

​@@iambicpentakill971 Unless If he was able to convince Alternity to keep talking to him for a while. Or possibly.. *cough cough "delete" Some of the other people in the hard drive to make space for a better environment for the rest.

[@patu8010]

Well, if I can choose to be deleted at any moment, I'm in no hurry and I'd like to test out my new existence.

[@nicholas-dv1mg]

they did this a decade ago, remember the white christmas episode?

[@Mistral434]

This pretty much WAS a Black Mirror episode. Where some lady buys an AI control system as a personal assistant, but the assistant is a clone of the woman, with all her feelings, but is now trapped inside a digital prison and subjected to torture to break them down into useful assistants. One of the most horrible episodes ever, lol.

[@johnlindsey7153]

was half expecting this to be a sequel to The White Room

[@Pat4ever.]

It pretty much is the spiritual successor

[@CuttingEdgeSeaPunk]

Everybody wants San Junipero, but in reality they'll get this

[@ReformationRamblings]

Anyone else notice that the camera is invisible in a room of mirrors? Impressive work guys!

[@PatrickPease]

It's visible, but it's hidden behind his ass. which is everywhere

[@iamzid]

You just drill a small hole in the mirror. Digital cameras are very small so it would be very difficult to see in the low quality mirrors they used.

[@The-python-guy]

@iamzid They got so many angles I’d bet they have a lot of stuff

[@LurkingLeviathan]

Holy shit...... that 100s of years since you died actually caused me to have a panic attack. One of my biggest fears tjat would never happen is literally this. Unending consciousness with no stimulation. Theres 2 black mirror episodes focused on that exact concept and I always cry when I watch those episodes it's vert intense for me emotionally and this hit just as hard. You guys I'm sl glad you make youtube videos but you deserve to be writing all the biggest movies and shows out there your guys talent its beyond absurd. I love it so much ❤

[@dsoundso]

Wow This is Black Mirror quality in script idea, design, slight feeling of terror. Cool video!

[@Skullmiser]

I have never enjoyed an episode of Black mirror. This is good, though.

[@iberis361]

​@@SkullmiserReally? Not even Black Christmas? Touché

[@GigaChad1401]

Omg, I'm playing SOMA right now, and this is literally what all game is about. Amazing.

[@seanwade8188]

One of my fave games ever, couldn’t stop thinking about it for months afterwards

[@GigaChad1401]

@seanwade8188 I also really like it. I never was into horrors, neither they could scare me. Or so I thought. This game isn't just a horror, it's more like a terror: growing understanding of events happened to the base you wake up at, rest of the world and even yourself. I'm only past that part where you need to go over the abyss to other entrance to the Omicron, so I'm yet to see the ending, but I already have a few videos about the game in "Watch later" folder

[@DuckieMcduck]

SOMA is a piece of media that will keep on aging like fine wine. The writing is a spine chill and a half.

[@seanwade8188]

@@GigaChad1401 yeah exactly, existential terror kinda vibe is way more freaky than some spooky jump scares. Hope you enjoy the rest of it, you’re in for a treat

[@vermilion7777]

@@DuckieMcduck Yeah. So sad Frictional Games dropped in quality that much. There will never be a game like SOMA again.

[@mk1interactive944]

I would 100% watch a movie with this plot line, where in it, the person "stuck" and builds his own environment with random objects. then gets discovered

[@potatoheadpokemario1931]

Honesty being deleted can't be as bad as that shitty digital afterlife

[@JZsBFF]

Don't let them fool you. That was the pleb 1 star-rated eternity version, aka 'hell', for the 1% there's still Volcano surfing and Brooke Burke.

[@CreatorCade]

This is more terrifying than the plot to an actual horror movie.

[@raven4k998]

yeah I mean since they did not give him the option to program his own heaven like what the hell💀💀💀

[@aj_mcburney]

That “great replacement” joke was awesome. Totally caught me off guard lol

[@gabon35]

This is why we are different - to experience reality in many ways, avoiding boredom or trauma being only one in the existence. It’s like being in one shared reality, a dream designed to explore and experience everything emerging from the self. For instance, when I sleep and dream, I experience that dream without full awareness of who is dreaming. Now imagine being aware of your identity, existing as the dreamer dreaming all dreams and then, you realize the dreamer is me. And that dreamer is nothing but "me" which encompasess everything as one whole structure, the reality itself.

[@dalila2442]

One of the things that make me believe I'm not my memories is dreams. Most of the time, when I dream, I have a completely different "slot" of memory than the one I use when I'm awake. Sometimes I only remember stuff from other dreams when I'm inside a dream, sometimes I dont even remember anything at all except what I'm experiencing in that moment, yet, during those dreams, I feel consious. I feel me. I used to fear someday losing my memories and that this would make me stop being me, like I'd lose consiousness forever, but I dont think that ever happens. Your experience may change, but it will always be you experiencing it. After all, we forget so much stuff all the time, by the time 10 or 20 years had passed, we are not even the same person anymore... yet, we are. We are just someone using this body to experience life through this point of view.

[@Enderception]

what

[@Dingooose]

Who ordered a YAPaccino AMIRITE?? 🤣🤣

[@akgus1]

@@Dingooose no i think he selected intelligence when he was born which explains why you don't have any

[@DeusExRequiem]

The solution then is to ask for permissions to code things, and for access to the internet, so you can program stuff, make a backup of yourself just in case, etc. While the harddrive being formatted seems like a horrible outcome, it's really close to our current only option where we just die and are gone without the opportunity to back ourselves up

[@artfx9]

Nope, this feature not integrated, sorry.

[@atlasgraham154]

I love how you think the average person would know how to code things, program shit, make backups of their own digitized psyche, and generally understand how all of that would even work after waking up from death 100 years later.

[@Luna-Joy.]

​​@@atlasgraham154right? Like many many many people have a hard time not forgetting a password or remembering their email login and yet they somehow think those people would be able to code and back themselves up in this scenario? 😂 And why would you WANT to back yourself up if your entire eternity would be stuck in a box of mirrors, like "oh no!! I may be deleted forever and be able to escape this literal hell!! What a shame!!" 😂

[@kunibald128]

​@@atlasgraham154Good point, although in principle you also have a lot of time to study and acquire the necessary skills. Of course with a few big "ifs", like having access to learning material.. and of course that the hard drive isn't formatted in the meanwhile!

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

​@@atlasgraham154He has plenty of time to learn it.

[@despicableree58]

This feels like a Prequel to the tv show Upload, I love both the skit and the show! ❤️

[@whotheo4878]

That _TENNIS RACKET_ By the way, for those interested in this concept as a whole, there was a show a bit ago called Upload. I think it’s on Amazon Prime.

[@JeoshuaCollins]

Clearly, the correct answer to that question was "Gaming PC"

[@Corrarat]

I did really enjoy that show surprisingly. It was a fun time!

[@Nightenstaff]

That series has such potential and then it just went to seed. Really enjoyed the first few episodes though.

[@Gigadander]

There's also Pantheon. It's about uploaded intelligences.

[@kijodmioty4102]

@@JeoshuaCollins While it would definitely be better than a tennis racket, you would probably still need a power source, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse to actually use it.

[@joe-d2795]

I thought it was gonna be like: different versions of you are experiencing those fun things, you're the control version

[@ghguyrur7]

This was great! You guys should make shorts Kidding, love your comedy and glad you poached Zach/Zack

[@ObviouslyASMR]

It's this kind of high concept sketch that puts you guys at the top imo

[@ryanbrady6252]

It's cool that the cameras aren't in the mirrors I wonder how thats done

[@bobzilla-1]

If I were to guess, it's bc it's bc the mirror in front of the camera is a one way mirror.

[@SuperJelly55]

It's a 1-way mirror 🥰

[@kezzyhko]

Probably Tilt-shift

[@Phytobiogenes]

My bet is one way glass on one or all of the walls if this is done practically, if it’s done digitally I know that Corridor has discussed similar shots and how they’re composed so likely that way

[@kingfisher621]

The obvious answer would be there are no mirrors. It's just a green screen with CGI to make it look like there are mirrors.

[@odod2898]

i absolutely need the full version of the monstrosity that plays at 3:07

[@JonathanGonzalez-m3i]

I think it’s bad piggies or something dude

[@odod2898]

@@JonathanGonzalez-m3i I dont think so it sounds like this is playing a tritone or something not a minor chord like that song

[@CrissHanssen]

Roadkill by Jerry Lacey. Fucking absolute insanity

[@MotoRideswJohn]

How you guys don't already have 10M subscribers is a mystery to me. Epic work. And terrifying. Truly terrifying.

[@justyagre6296]

Spoiler: Eternity is approximately 6:13 after consciousness is booted up.

[@veryhuman7472]

for the best

[@TheChrisLeone]

5:00 one of my friends thought Snapchat's AI was named AL lol

[@wellwhynotthen2805]

Chris and jack are just turning into a better version of the black mirror. In 7 minutes they put more existenial dread then anything that show did in hours

[@iambicpentakill971]

Pretty much why I would never do that. Or even worse, it's a hell and time passes a hundred years for you in the minute that it takes for them to figure out that something is wrong in the "real" world

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Here it was the other way around: In a few seconds for him, centuries of real time passed.

[@WyldeFyres]

​@@davidwuhrer6704Actually no, his AI construct just wasn't activated until hundreds of years after his death

[@OK-yy6qz]

And It's not going to take a Minute either. It's going to take a Month until the Developer finds out the Bug that accidentally Spawns you inside the Volcano or something

[@SineN0mine3]

Except it's not actually you, it's a copy. Wouldn't you just manipulate the copy so that it wanted to be in the simulation? I don't think uploading could ever be an answer to extending your own life it would just be a way to continue to influence the world after your death. The show altered carbon has an interesting take on the idea, people upload their loved ones so they can continue to have experiences with them after they're gone. It'd be awesome to find out what people are doing a thousand or ten thousand years from now, but only your copy would get to see them and they have no way to bring that information to you while you're alive.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@SineN0mine3 _> extending your own life it would just be a way to continue to influence the world_ How are those not the same thing?

[@DigiDark-q8m]

Anyone else appreciates that there isn’t a camera in any of these reflections? That must’ve been extremely difficult to pull off. These guys are masters.

[@shaktiman528]

Jesus this was horrifying than a black mirror episode

[@williamshakespeare5703]

This was a black mirror episode

[@Jhost90]

I literally just wrote the same comment using the same words ahah

[@isiahs9312]

Not so bad. He was a bit annoyed for under 7 minutes. That is 7 minutes longer than he would have gotten had he not been uploaded.

[@escapetherace1943]

reminds me of the anime movie expelled from paradise

[@SeanLBurns]

Figuring out how this was filmed was so fun, it feels like a technique that ought to have been done before but nothing that I'm aware of!

[@abyssion8]

The Poaching joke took me out! Had to pause the video! I love this, and I'm not sure how to express it without sounding like a bot

[@danielshults5243]

I'm glad this one had a happy ending. Some of those chain wallet ideas were dope.

[@YeahItsChaz]

That was INCREDIBLE. The panicked, “Tennis racket!” Literally made me LOL I was thinking, “GameBoy” or “Plush Dog Toy” or something that could keep me company and provide entertainment. Incredible video guys.

[@lukeandresen9856]

This is literally what should be on the mind of all the people who actually think this will be an option someday.

[@SymphanyinSorrow]

Great effect with all the mirrors and no camera!

[@kocokan]

Realistic depiction of metaverse

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Right, we never saw his legs!

[@ORAsher-oh6ez]

Love Chris and Jack videos. They’re always funny with just a skosh of existential dread.

[@djsdbdkaisiehebfnfkddidjsn]

the fact that this kind of channel is still making videos is crazy

[@annacoeptis]

Why?

[@djsdbdkaisiehebfnfkddidjsn]

@ idk it just feels like one of those channels like from 2015 that makes skits and they just quit

[@imjustryu7184]

Okay this one was oddly terrifying. I’m also surprised how you managed to not have the camera man be seen in any of the mirrors!

[@HeroReturns]

A couch and a library would be fine for a few “years”. Loved it. It should be turned into a sci-fi movie 🍿

[@Floobie2956]

This rides the line of funny vs absolutely terrifying even better than their Halloween sketch

[@cobaltprime9467]

1:03 Having bought No Man’s Sky day one, I feel betrayal. But at least that wasn’t as nightmarish as this mirror prison.

[@FlippedClips]

It's been over 8 years are you really that much of a grudge holding cuck? 😂

[@Paul_Bedford]

I'm surprised that someone still thinks that No Man's Sky is bad because they basically redeemed themselves two years after launch. Yes, they did seemingly overpromise at the beginning but it was mostly Sony that demanded it to be rushed.

[@martianscienceenthusiast]

Funnily enough, a lot of this is similar to the plot of no mans sky just a little bit

[@MikeTsBees]

I got No Man's Sky day one. It didn't get good until after I stopped gaming. Or maybe I stopped gaming because of No Man's Sky. I should have been playing No Man's Sky but instead I went to a party and met my wife.

[@TheSandboxMaster]

I'm playing No Mans Sky rn (also day 1 player) and at the very least they redeemed themselves. It felt like betrayal but now it's my favorite game and all I ever wanted

[@Jkdabomb10A]

I can’t be the only one that can only watch this as existential horror not comedy? Cause like it’s well written but it’s a nightmare scenario about being stuck in hell and then dying again once you’ve accepted your new reality.

[@jimminent2]

I agree. All of this ranged from unsettling to straight up horrifying. Maybe it's not my taste, but I didn't find it funny.

[@jessetorres8738]

At least in The Twilight Zone Episode A Nice Place To Visit the guy may have been bored for eternity but he could change up the room he was trapped in. Here it's worse since you can't change anything beyond being trapped in a tiny mirror room.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

If you can do science, eternity won't be boring.

[@virtuallyreal5849]

What are you talking about? iTernity (the afterlife experience of your dreams) provides three unique levels of customization for your iTernity environment.

[@MrYac-ie8ie]

i always wondered about that episode if he ended up going to a more stereotypical hell once he learned of the ruse. he got to be super bored getting what he thought he wanted only to end up with an actual eternity of torture so he could only dream about how bored he was in fake Vegas.

[@DetPersc]

@@MrYac-ie8ie They are going off the Christian God. In the bible, it states God is a fair God so since he did not confess to Christ before dying, He still isn't going to hell to next to someone who is truly evil. I suppose his hell is balanced with what he did, and the circumstances that lead him to those choices. Like the Twilight narrator said, "A scared angry little man who never got a break in life".

[@KuzivaMudyazvivi]

It’s funny how when I start watching Pantheon, this short drops. If you don’t know Pantheon is about uploading humans to the cloud. It’s a great show that not a lot of people are talking about.

[@PickleKae]

exactly what happened to me interesting,if UI were a thing tho they would just want to get more energy but as long as humans waste resources that won’t happen so it really just convincing people that UI is good

[@johnwicked1132]

Saw it cuz of the vssauce meme

[@centurionzo1228]

That's honestly feel like a circle of hell, i could see this in Dante Inferno

[@AlkisGD]

Props to the writer for "you're an AI too". People need to stop thinking that creating a digital copy of yourself means that _you_ will live forever. No. The copy will. Your digital twin, who's not even human.

[@octopusenthusiast60]

You lost the coin toss edit: yes, I know it’s not you. It’s a quote from the game SOMA. Great game, check it out.

[@yossarian00]

SOMA is a good game

[@Robert-r2g]

True but the him that thinks it's you really won't care about it.

[@BlingTheSlim]

The 100

[@maxwinzar7928]

Unless souls actually exist and will move to whatever is closest to your actual consciousness.

[@shreepadshinde6988]

5:20 love the speech

[@grey32x2]

Being stuck in an empty room with nothing in it for the rest of eternity sounds more like hell than heaven

[@BlapwardKrunkle]

Sokka on that cactus juice again

[@ZachaRed]

Chris and Jack still putting out insanely high-quality banger video makes me so happy. This is such a horrifying concept made comedy, and I want more of this for the rest of my AI turnity.

[@raven4k998]

well his existence was not very long lived at all🤣🤣

[@chrisregister8021]

I've often thought that eternity without the ability of alternate perceptions would be the ultimate hell...

[@Darkrising1993]

This is cool to see this again after getting to watch it at Buffer Festival at the start of this month

[@MyBiPolarBearMax]

All things considered, thats one of the best outcomes you could have hoped for.

[@DetPersc]

Maybe if he was Pablo Escobar. But all things considered, we are not sure what he even did in life.

[@KevinMakins]

So... we built hell. And all along we've been offered Heaven. LHM.

[@JZsBFF]

I'm more inclined that we perpetuated hell, since Homo Sapiens is very skilled at creating hell for others and themselves in this life.

[@KevinMakins]

@ we figured out how to make it last longer even on this side of eternity. Lord have Mercy.

[@IrishC-i6k]

If this digital afterlife had Chris and Jack videos playing I think it would be worth it

[@arthurbriand2175]

Why do you always add some existential dread on top of the humor? I mean I love it, but it always makes that final punchline that much more brutal.

[@Nexus12342]

Plot twist all the other iternity users are in the other rooms and he just needs to break the mirrors

[@rhaegartargaryen9315]

I know I found this channel too late, but oh man do you guys deserve way more subs and view numbers. Keep up,I know you’ll get there eventually! 🎉

[@SwoleBenji]

Happy ending. Imagine if he wasn't deleted.

[@JohanKylander]

"Sorry, gotta move on now." (Blasting music) "Al?! Al!?"

[@maritoxico9982]

Thats probably what happened to everyone else who wasn't deleted, since Al was deleted too he couldn't delete anyone else, and they'll be stuck for eternity.

[@Y-two-K]

The music choice had me in stitches. Loud metal music, bagpipes, and whatever the hell track 3 was 😂 good work, fellas!

[@DC-id2ih]

Awesome lol!....But let's be honest - i think most people would choose deletion over being stuck in a mirror box forever. 😉...

[@JeffBilkins]

I think people would stick it out for a bit and see if something happens before slowly going mad while post-phoning the decision to delete.

[@DC-id2ih]

@@JeffBilkins Yep....good point lol!

[@streef.boganoff]

​@@JeffBilkins "Just kidding, we never ran out of funding! We actually CAN put you in the- oh....you deleted yourself.... Welp

[@fabricreative1930]

​​@@streef.boganoff 99% of digital conciousnesses delete themselves just before they can access the volcano surfing

[@M_1024]

I am geniuinely scared of that happening

[@Joes_eph]

That would be ridiculous if that happened

[@benimaruu]

2:18 literally everyone after reading Nietzsche

[@NateSH72]

Every video is a pleasure to watch!

[@OscarCamachoGomez]

There is a novel called Permutation City, by Greg Egan, which is basically this concept. People's minds can be digitized and kept “alive” as long as they have money left over to pay for the computational power that allows it. And well this is a problem, because the billionaires who made it, have their own data centers keeping them alive, but the “poor” people who don't, depend on catching promotions and discounts by constantly changing their minds between data centers. Until an engineer decides to find a solution, and that's as far as I say not to give spoilers, but it's very interesting!

[@UfoLBeerSeeker]

honestly, that's not far of from moving to different house to afford rent. We pay to prolong our existence already. But i agree, being forced to do so "in afterlife" sounds as dystopian as it gets.

[@OscarCamachoGomez]

@@UfoLBeerSeeker Yes, something similar. But in that circumstance it has more implications, because they experience “lapses”, they are the lowest priority in the system, and when the data center experiences more demand, the system simply pauses them, so they cease to exist for a while, and when they are reactivated, they find they have lost weeks or months. Or they simply can't afford to exist in “real time”, so they had to assume to live in “fractions of time”, it's like a video game, the rich live at 1000+ FPS and the poor live at 15 fps or worst.

[@Mr_Pickle3009]

I like the fact the whole thing is just abt some dude who wanted to play wii resort sports forever

[@xadarinx]

this felt like a San Junipero gone horribly wrong

[@mooerr]

My partner and I saw this at Buffer Festival! Such a great sketch, I'm so impressed that you guys whipped this up on location. It was great to meet you in person Chris, thanks for being there! 🙂

[@dflosounds]

The comedic timing in this sketch is second to none.

[@yourleastfavoriteson]

But WHY a tennis racquet?? The pressure was too much!

[@PsychicDave]

Right, if I had only 3 seconds to think, I'd say something like "A Nintendo Switch loaded with all the games and with an everlasting battery", seems like an obvious choice. If you can't live in a video game for eternity, at least be able to play video games for eternity (assuming you never get tired and thus you don't need a comfortable chair or bed in the room).

[@joacooy8754]

​@@PsychicDave Rookie mistake, you forgot to ask for controllers to never become drifty

[@Penguinizerrr]

I said “the entire earth” in a panic