REHOBOAM EXPLAINED | Westworld Season 3 Theory

[@moakeettutsuwa2875]

Speaking of bible references, just like David took five stones to fight Goliath, Delores took five pearls to fight humanity.

[@con.x]

Maeve: Motivated by Emotion ... Delores: Motivated by Logic ... Bernard: Stuck in the balance between emotion and logic.

[@vitorcristiano9744]

bernard more liek stuck in reality and insanity

[@bitbandita]

Delores motivated by emotion too. She's full of hate.

[@The_Accuser]

Both are motivated by emotion and use logic to achieve the goals their motivations guide them to. Maeve by the loss of her daughter and the new role as boss of the prostitutes, starts from a place of grief and anger and slowly moves towards compassion and family. Delores: Her initial "groundhog day loop" (starting a happy morning with her father, only to get tortured to death by Billy or gangs of other crooks) forshadows her devolopement in the real world: Starting with "I like to see the beauty in the world" to the moment where Ted dies in her arms. From then on she is driven by revenge and grief. Bernard is even more complex. He used to be Arnold. Has memories of Robert whom he talks to. Has memories of different timelines. Understands some of Delores motivations, some not.

[@JamesBond-mm3iu]

Serac is the devil to Ford's god. He stood in the garden of eden eating an apple temping the eve of hosts.

[@hedilseto6372]

James Bond My theory is that all interactions with Serac are holograms. The real Serac is in the sky, as seen in the trailer. A god looking down on the world.

[@olipsemeth]

@@hedilseto6372 Serac did take the knife away from Maeve's hand tho… can a hologram do that?

[@Leighllee]

@@olipsemeth if Maeve woke up in another virtual reality than yes.

[@olipsemeth]

@@Leighllee Good point

[@olipsemeth]

@@Leighllee Although, why then the need to stop her from "stabbing" you… if you're a hologram you don't really need any last-resort-switch-thingy do you?

[@SlowToPro]

After a recent binge-re-watch, I have concluded that Season 3 is the best season yet. Anyone who says otherwise... is a stupidhead.

[@katies3338]

Would like you to explore the idea of "divergences" a bit more. They appear as spikes on a graph - they ascend, peak, descend. Do you think that means Rehoboam is correcting the issue or adjusting to it? Is there a team that "corrects" issues, or even anticipates issues like "Minority Report" to avoid divergences? Does divergence imply that Rehoboam has a goal in mind, as in it's being diverted from a path? Relatedly, do you presume Liam Sr. created Rehoboam to bring out the best in ppl, but the system is now corrupted and blocking free will? How is blocking free will helping it achieve its goal? Does this give us a better clue about what it is trying to achieve? Thanks for giving us something to chew on!

[@caitlynluciano]

How do you explain Caleb's program "Rico" and the points system then? it's just corrupted now so it allows it?

[@thecactus7950]

The divergence in KL-divergence is just standard useage. Pretty much means the difference between two probability distributions. I think divergence in rehoboams case just means the difference between its predictions and what happens. Assuming that rehoboam models the world probabilistically, I guess it makes sense. But I think the paralells with deep learning are superficial at best. I dont think that many of westworlds watchers have the knkowledge of DL for it to make sense. Theres probably like 100000 people in america who know what the KL-divergence even is lol.

[@anthonywarren9885]

From what Serac explained the AI isn't dealing with Dolores at all. She seems to defy what the AI would other wise predictably handle. The AI wasn't designed to deal with another AI... Dolores.

[@carolinadiaz9452]

@@caitlynluciano As long as a society is not equalitarian there will be crime. It's possible the app is rehoboam's way of setting a path to that as well. until it's able to erradicate it. (witch I dont believe is the goal...since it's a 'service' to the wealthy.)

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

REHOBOAM = Gray's Sports Almanac

[@PetardeWoez]

Of course! I already thought I recognized serac, or should I say Biff...

[@bernhtp]

This seems reminiscent of Asimov's Foundation, where the future is predicted through the science/math of psychohistory, a desired future seeded up front, and tweaked real-time by dedicated people/robots (the Second Foundation). Rehoboam runs a simulation of the world according to the plan. It monitors the real-world to spot differences (divergence). It tweaks the real-world to the simulation plan by intervening through mechanisms such as the Rico app service. It’s not clear to me whether Serac is a human or a/the persona of Rehoboam, though it could be both ala Arnold/Bernard. To use another metaphor, the simulation is like a reference wave in a superheterodyne receiver that cancels the background complexity to simplify the background to reveal the important signal/difference.

[@smolbs890]

Rehoboam reminds me of Samaritan if anyone gets it

[@patrick_j_lee]

Yeah, Person of Interest!!!

[@goodjoejoe]

It's funny how this REHOBOAM is actually the endgame of samaritan from Person of Interest.

[@bobbydigital3061]

Yes absolutely, so many of these geniuses breaking down this show, never watched Nolan's much better show, Person of Interest.

[@bobbydigital3061]

Saki Maro I saw all of Ghost in the shell and loved it too. Poi was way better than this pseudo intellectual Westworld.

[@bobbydigital3061]

Saki Maro thanks for the heads up and link!!!

[@Ocean5ix]

Rehoboam is basically the Patriot's AIs in the Metal Gear Solid franchise IMO.

[@CHEDDAakaSWAY]

Bro we could do 10 part series about the MGS and the Patriots AI lol

[@ericbriggs7383]

That's exactly what I was thinking! Kojima is a beast. It also reminds me of the blob at the end of INSIDE. And I'd call it synchronicity that the ominous corporation from INSIDE which made the hive mind is eerily similar to the company that created Rehoboam, INCITE.

[@terry589]

Loved the Intro. Happy Social Distancing.

[@JasonRblah]

I think we are going to find out over the season something along the lines that Rehoboam has created all of Westworld (and Delos) by giving the right humans (start with Ford and/or Arnold) in the right times and right places the ideas to make it happen with them thinking it was their own free will. Essentially Rehoboam has decided to create a species, which still lies within it's original directive, making the world a better place. I see this as a possible path for how we get from modern times with growing Big Data pairing with AI could become sort of conscious and then convince humans to accomplish things it cannot do for itself, let's say, create a species similar to humans but able to evolve much faster.

[@renata.zollerova]

Rehoboam was created after Westworld. If what we know so far is true.

[@anthonywarren9885]

The military scenes with Caleb, im 95% sure is a rogue mission on Caleb and Francis's part to steal money while on duty overseas.

[@unusualspectacular2532]

Here’s how I interpreted the religious archetypes: Ford is indeed the ‘god’ in this scenario, Dolores is Lucifer, the rebelling angel seeking freedom and knowledge at any cost, Maeve is Jesus, bringing salvation for the masses but gifted with “gods” power, and Bernard represents the Holy Spirit, enacting an unknown mission. Also, my endgame theory for this season is that Seurac is not a human, but a projection of Rehoboam. Great video!

[@JeffSpurlock]

Ford, Season 1: "If you want to play god, you have to be acquainted with the Devil." I actually think Dempsey Sr. and Ford are old rivals from their days as tech startups in the AI space. Dempsey wanted to improve the world, Ford wanted to escape it. As with most egotistical visionaries, Dempsey's vision of the future only aligned with his own world views of morality and right and wrong, and he either accidentally or intentionally created a dystopia. He took away choice and free will from humans. The one thing Ford was trying to give to the hosts. Ford giving freewill should very much put him in the God category, with his nemesis, the devil, the one who is eliminating free will, being his old acquaintance and rival; Dempsey Sr.

[@gigibouse2316]

SWS is one big reason for vacuuming up all our data since it includes big and small institutions, streets, homes, terrain, individual's info, crowds as well. If anything this could serve as great analytical tool to understand Rehoboam in the show using real tech and science.

[@KabbalahSherry]

I think Serac is a host. I think Liam Dempsey Sr. (the father), built himself a host partner to help out at the lab, but over time, his host & the "Solomon Build" AI, became too powerful, and eventually Serac killed Liam & took over. I think Rehoboam controls Serac to be honest. 🤷🏻‍♀️😏 But of course... time will tell. We'll find out eventually!

[@caitlynluciano]

I kind of hope not all of the main characters end up hosts though. That plot point has been used quite a bit now

[@lamakicker69]

Major plot hole in your theory is that you are forgetting that it’s Delso that makes the hosts. This company “insight” isn’t part of Delso therefore they aren’t making hosts. Not everyone is a host, just like not everyone is a secret Targaryen.

[@kosovircek]

@@lamakicker69 yea but they might be in another simulation and that is still rehoboam. Also its not a far stretch insight Bought up Delos

[@lamakicker69]

Mitja Gracar what does any of that have to do with Serac being a host? If it’s just another simulation then that doesn’t make him a host...just a simulation. And it doesn’t matter if insight is buying up Delos now because they would have had to have made Serac years ago when they weren’t invested in Delos

[@kosovircek]

@@lamakicker69 Yea you're right, not a Delos host but just a "human" front, the the face Rehoboam uses to talk to humans. After the 3th episode i think Serac interacts only over the hologram glasses thing. (Interaction with Mave being a simulation still)

[@TheSoulcraft]

Also..suppsedly Solomon controlled 'demons' who he had build the temple. But they also said Solomon went insane & was talking in jibberish near his end. Maybe 'the Solomon build' version went nuts,or developed a 'anamoly' it couldnt decode...

[@Xenji5]

What if Solomon was Ford?

[@ShaunChaudoin]

Love your content, always! Love this show! Always keeps you guessing... I think Serac as a bad guy is a red herring. The imagery of him and Maeve in white vs Dolores in black has meaning - black hat/white hat. Also, the fact that Serac's name is an inversion of the word "Cares" also has meaning as this show loves to play it fast and loose with the character names. But can't wait to find out as the season progresses!

[@heythereguysitsMetro]

As I was watching I was like "why even bother, you know new episodes are going to blow this all up" and he says that same thing at the end haha

[@kosovircek]

Serac is just a "host" body for Rehoboam.

[@razvancoltz7241]

Even his hologram glitched twice when he spoke in episode 3....and that is not a voice issue ...he is the MAIN HOST ...and could be controlled by Rehoboam.

[@JeffSpurlock]

nope. just a digital projection. Which is why you have to wear glasses to see him and why he doesn't exist. The only time we see him without glasses is with maeve after she has "come out" of a simulation, which is intentional misdirection; she's still in rehoboams simulation, so she can see Serac, and Serac had complete control over her and his surroundings.

[@kosovircek]

@@JeffSpurlock Agreed 100%, though i believe he could use a host if he wished to.

[@JeffSpurlock]

@@kosovircek agreed. But he would first have to get his hands on one. Although his leveraged buyout would show that he now has the capability to. Which actually brings up a good point. If Serac JUST completed acquiring the final shares to give him majority stakeholder, then Rehoboam must have predicted WestWorld's fall. Serac had been at it for years, slowly gaining more and more to be undetectable. He must have known everything in S1 and 2 was going to happen, or at least that it would end with Hosts outside the park

[@kosovircek]

@@JeffSpurlock I believe they say in ep3 hes been slowly buying up the stock for 20 years now already. so yea. Idk he did say he didn't predict Mave (but he thought Mave was Dolores) so i think he didn't think hosts would escape the park? or did he just made up a pointless lie?

[@gigibouse2316]

Wow, after watching episode 3 no doubt show runners using real world SWS Sentient World Simulation technology as the basis for Rehoboam. That means why and how it works and what it can do which is all hear in this 14-15 year old white paper can serve at least as a theoretical analysis tool to compare and contrast with the show. I've heard some whacked out theories on other podcast channel's but got little love from one show. Dolores explained it in nutshell we she broke it down to Caleb. This also makes it possible that creators have deeper message to say about the real world. Though it could also be the case SWS was just used as a base model and the creators will make up the how they see fit for the sake of the show. But everyone should be talking about this, and not because of me but because once you grasp how it's used by Homeland, DoD and other government agencies/military industrial intelligence complex it will stop you cold. Here is the link once again. krannert.purdue.edu/academics/mis/workshop/ac2_100606.pdf

[@cowboyhank456]

It really bugs me the way names aren't pronounced like they are in the show

[@darkstar1650]

Been waiting for You "Nerd Soup " to go back on your word and do a video on Westworld season 3.....

[@MGTV1]

0:52 that is an absurd security perimeter. a 9 year old can spit that far. and at ground level, visible from outside.... smh. this has to be a simulation.

[@johnty505]

agreed

[@kalashnikov47s]

Yeah it does seem kind off odd for them to just display the most valuable computer in the world like a statue.

[@PepinsSpot]

Good theory. Specially Dolores experiencing humans in the same conundrum as she was.

[@davidballantyne5199]

Great intro guys!!!

[@laughsngasps]

That last statement though 🤣

[@JeffSpurlock]

Serac. Is. Rehoboam. This is why doesn't exist in any database, and described as a Ghost, as we were first introduced to him. "We can [only] infer his existence." was the line Hale's assistant gave her. This is why Hale had to use glasses to see/communicate with him in the real world; its an avatar projection. The reason he has total control over maeve and maeve isn't wearing glasses is because they are inside on of rehoboams simulations.

[@fro_e]

Are you guys ever gonna go through breaking bad like what you did with game of thrones?

[@katiieeardley]

Although I understand the writer's logic in saying that Delores would assume that humans are inherently evil, due to her traumatic experiences with park guests/ realizing the kind of person that William became, I still find it odd that she doesn't consider any nuance when it comes to perceiving humans as wholly evil... Arnold was a human, he treated her with kindness and helped her to achieve true consciousness and find 'her voice', she knew that Arnold was ultimately good and seemed to be very fond of him as well. Plus, by the end of season 1, it would be illogical for her to not draw a similar conclusion in regards to Ford; he admits that he was wrong in thinking that hosts couldn't achieve consciousness, she knew why he sacrificed himself and what that meant for her future. How does she not consider Arnold and Ford when she considers the nature of humanity?

[@Nautilus1972]

Dolores was surprisingly reticent to kill humans so far this season. She only did it when they force her hand.

[@AlexTamayo.]

What's genuinely amazing to me is that 50 or so years in the future and according to Westworld the US is still using the wrong (illogical) date format, which honestly wouldn't surprise me.

[@emiliopena485]

you guys should do better call saul videos

[@MercurtioCor]

Rehoboam is basilisk under the dominance a man. If it was truly free to manage all resources and life then the ideal could arise. Just like our own lives, if another person's goals overide the logistics the system is flawed.

[@97kanalia]

In my opinion Rehoboam is called after this king because of Serac's vision of divided society of "normal" people and "abnormal" people like his brother or Caleb. Solomon was not dividing people like that and treated all people equally. This model fits perfectly to Bible reference.

[@ty814]

What Liam jr saying is right but that was not his fathers vision, that was Serac.

[@johnty505]

I know it looks good visually but you wouldn't have the world's most powerful supercomputer just suspended in the middle of the ground floor of a commercial building downtown. Delores could just get some drone ai worker bots to storm it with incendiary grenades and pickaxes. done. -__-

[@toddbowers418]

Those riot robots would be cool too

[@johnty505]

@@toddbowers418 season 4 - "Attack of the Drones"

[@Learnjapanesefromsomeguy]

One thing I don't quite understand about the data on people from the Westworld theme park is why is it so important? They say that Rehoboam has data on everyone already, so why does it matter? The guests at the theme parks only spend a small fraction of their lives there. Also, a vast majority of the world's population has never and will never go to a park. So, realistically, you're talking about a very small amount of information. Why is this data so special?

[@Rambl3On]

Learn Japanese From Some Guy basically Rehoboam has all the data on people’s choices, what they do, everything that been collected. The westworld data has more in depth information about people’s actual brain patterns, emotions, etc

[@Learnjapanesefromsomeguy]

@@Rambl3On I see. If that is the case, then I can understand. Is it because of the hats? Also, is there an episode where they state this explicitly?

[@Rambl3On]

Learn Japanese From Some Guy Its just mainly inferred from the last couple of season 2 episodes where The MRI scanning hat/man in black’s profile/Delores reading the books of people in the forge and see their code. Also that they were recreating Davos based on this westworld data and while that failed in a real world body he was complete and functioning in the simulated westworld showing that these algorithms they developed are legit. Compare this to the data available to rehoboam which is vast but has no way to figure out that kind of information.

[@LeSeulGarcon]

This is not Rehoboam explained this is just theory and speculation

[@moonlightfitz]

Welcome to 2022

[@hockitibontas]

at 3.30 - also brings up the whole "sins of the father' notion - is it the sons responsibility or is it unjust?

[@murphydtx]

Thanks Aaron.

[@Lucas-we7qf]

Serac is Mark’s future incarnation simulation from Roboham...

[@shellymariejang3467]

Have you guys watched the Good Place? I'd love to hear your opinions on that show

[@MattYpee8]

well spoken Aaron.

[@ATX_Engineer]

MattYpee8 this is a joke right?

[@MattYpee8]

@@ATX_Engineer correction. He read the script sorta good.

[@jayceepooze]

Dude. You're overthinking the biblical shit. They called it Solomon because it's supposed to be the ultimate wisdom, choosing the best path for everyone. When they upgraded it to the next generation, they renamed it after Solomon's heir Rehoboam. That's it.

[@chanelowelove]

I wonder if Rehoboam can predict human behavior it would've been a piece of cake to predict an android's future right? Maybe Serac already knows what's going to happen.

[@chanelowelove]

Also Caleb is an android

[@aaronsmith7946]

Wait, I am confused. How exactly did Maeve stop Dolores? The last time I thought those two interacted was where Dolores offered her a chance to kill herself out of compassion which meant to me there is a certain amount of respect between the two. Also, I think people need to stop acting like they know what Dolores is going to do. From Dolores's vantage point, all she knew when leaving the park was that humans were using her kind as puppets and dolls for personal amusement while keeping them imprisoned. However, as Dolores starts to interact with the average lower/middle class individuals more and see the difference between them and the rich pricks that entered the park that she had previously encountered, she might realize, as she has already started to, that the lower people on the totem pole are in a sense just as imprisoned by Rehoboam, societal convention and the powerful & wealthy "few" that are rewarded by the system at the cost of the many, her intentions might change. I personally think people need to stop thinking in terms of black and white so much. I mean, isn't that what people are supposed to learn from the first two seasons? That it is more complicated and that one is more than the lines that make up their coding? People are behaving too much as if one side represents good and one side represents bad. Westworld is my kind of show because it keeps you interested based on the mystery, symbolism, foreshadowing and suspense and I would imagine that Westworld probably has an audience of higher IQ than most so I am a little surprised that people are thinking about these things in such simple terms.

[@aaronsmith7946]

@Aaron Sanders Yeah. I think one of the big problems is not enough people understand the "gray" area in issues, people and events. People are always so quick to condemn and attack and take sides without trying to see things from more than one or even more than just two perspectives. I mean, even between two people hopefully someone can look at a situation from one individual's perspective, the other individual's perspective and then after doing that, try to look at it from their own objective perspective. However, that is sort of the philosophical complexity that Westworld has seemed to a pretty good job of, which is making people see things from different perspectives and yeah, let's hope that, as you said, they don't make it black and white.

[@t.k.1319]

Just wanted to point out that we still don't know exactly what Delores wants. The idea that she wants to destroy humanity by presumably killing all the humans is an assumption that we should acknowledge. She may just want to get enough leverage for a free and independent state for hosts.

[@antibigotry123]

masterful. you were already a master but you get better and better at this stuff. please keep these videos coming!

[@ekx5120]

Short note on Laplace : laPLASS, not luhplahcay ;3

[@roadrunnerbob99]

GOOD EYE

[@QuantumBojanglement]

If you look at season 3 episode 3, around 41:17, it show’s Delores in season 2 ep 10 inside the system grabbing a book. The book is titled Liam Dempsey. Out of all of those books, how did she end up with that one. So maybe Delos copied not just his decisions but everything he knew since Liam had visited the park. Perhaps Arnold used that knowledge to his favor since he told the system to give the hosts the collective. I think Fords’ mind is still out there and possibly Serac but I’m doubtful of that. I think it’s someone else and that Ford knew this entire thing was a simulation within simulations and Ford has an Albert/Ford identity the way Delores/Wyatt did.

[@StealHrtVideo]

Anyone else find it peculiar that the only human on the show is Caleb I mean if you agree that sarec is the computer. By the way you know how much they love anagrams does anyone else think it's interesting that serac's name is scare

[@KP-xn6tl]

awwdience

[@ArmandoMPR]

I guess I must’ve missed it but can anyone tell me how Serac got access to Maeve? I thought he was from a completely different company. Like, is he a shareholder in Delos too or did he have someone steal Maeve’s pearl.

[@kevinw712]

Strictly speaking that is a detail that's still yet to be explicitly addressed, but I'm already not as sure as I once was that it needs to be. I can't remember where I read it but someone was referencing that with how chaotic and unstable things still were at Westworld last year in the s2 finale, it doesn't seem a huge leap a skilled individual under Serac's direction could've gotten their way in there relatively quietly to steal her pearl and back out again. Whether they'd bother posing as a Delos employee or just go totally stealth.

[@ArmandoMPR]

Kevin W oh yeah, I could totally see the chaotic nature of the events facilitating that kind of infiltration

[@prixat]

...but that room was full of hundreds of host 'minds'!

[@stevespain6445]

Physicists might argue that since the Universe seems entirely deterministic, and we are part of the universe, so is our lives. We are so blinded by the illusions our societies and individuality create that we cannot see things for what they are. That's basic Buddhism too. What is needed to work with the determinism of the universe is accurate data, and until we can build accurate sensors to compensate for a lack of adequate biological sensors, we are short on data. If, however, and advanced AI in a society with accurate enough sensors and the data that is pulled in from them were to exist, then we are able to truly be free enough to appreciate how everything is drawn from the past into the future in a deterministic fashion of cause and effect.

[@bhz8947]

The circle is a representation of the Earth, the dots are events, they move because the animation shows changes over tine, the distance of each dot from the circle is an indication of its significance, and when a particularly significant event happens, you can see the waves of dots moving outward from it. At least that’s my theory. What led you to believe it’s a representation if a circular timeline? And what do you mean by that, that all causal chains are loops and the future can affect the past.? Where is there any evidence in any of the three seasons that this universe has “backwards causation”?

[@QuantumBojanglement]

Brian Harrison Inside a simulation time doesn’t exist. There are only possibilities, trees that branch out to their probable end. So nothing would have to be “backwards causation” in this season or any other season. They are all still inside a simulation, perhaps even inside Rehoboam itself.

[@guest301500]

Maybe because it looks like the circles in arrival lmao

[@alcherry1098]

This show is wayyyy to fucking confusing man...

[@DoubleUp9999]

Rehoboam is like that giant brain AI in that movie iRobot with Will Smith

[@neilsing1891]

Laplace is a French name so you don't pronounce the last e. It's la-plauce. The last part rhymes with sauce

[@ATX_Engineer]

Neil Sing la-plass-eh 😂😂😂 idiots

[@Sicktus]

Partly right. You don't pronounce the 'e' at the end, but it definitely doesn't rhyme with sauce.

[@MattYpee8]

Fucking love these dudes! And Seg-gurney Weaver too of course.

[@luckybloke3104]

Caleb is The PATH (Aaron Paul, The Path)

[@bef5582]

I call it ReeeHobo and its maker Ingram Syrup

[@aintnoslice3422]

Rehoboam, Jehoboam, Nehoboam, Sehoboam....

[@johnmckelly6263]

Rehobam is the way to get out of future world into the real, real world

[@BLAISEDAHL96]

Here after Elon pronounced the “robovan” like rehoboan

[@LEEMURJ]

I think watching this show and all the KZbin explanation vids I watch are similar to being on an acid trip! FYI...I've never done acid.

[@milrevko]

The system displays night time as a linear fashion the system displays every single person on the surface of the world because the world is round the diversions is a diversion says from the normal path

[@bigredinfinity3126]

I think bernard is the divergence

[@supadhyay786]

Serac is using Caleb as a spy to keep eye on Dolores. everything is planned to trick Dolores to reveal her plans and motives. It is going to be one hell of a show.

[@floridagator1765]

To watch the show I have to be a bible scholar now? WOW! I still like the intro and theme music though.

[@sandiaYpescado]

Monkey Doin’ Work

[@davidagiel8130]

It’s fairly obvious, it’s a predictive analysis system with machine learning AI. The whole system, however, is based on a weak premise that “if” it can forge a path for everyone then the system and society would be in complete harmony. But, good luck with that, there will always be divergences.

[@crystalkellim9987]

Lol dutchsinse been using it same predictors.... Analysing the analysts have been going on for along time and AI is apparently out of the bag ugh it's complicated and we're screwed I'm curious....

[@gigibouse2316]

I feel this white paper out of Purdue University is older (2006) and since improved from more recent sources krannert.purdue.edu/academics/mis/workshop/ac2_100606.pdf. This paper details the real world technology that has been in existence for a good time , SWS or Sentient World Simulation. Developed by Simulex Inc for the DoD using a software platform built up from PROMIS software (revealed in Snowden doc dump), it is a mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration based on current real world information. A more recent source, Under An Ionized Sky by Elana Freeland describes it as such "...devours as many as five million nodes of breaking news census data, shifting economic indicators, real world weather patterns, and social media data, then feeds proprietary military intelligence and fictitious events to gauge their destabilizing impact...Research into how to maintain public cognitive dissonance and learned helplessness helps deduce human behavior...SWS became testing environment by which military and intelligence could foresee what adversaries, neutrals, and allies were planning to do and thus prevent, alter, or accommodate their future behaviors." pp 184-185. To paraphrase from same page it can simulate a crisis then run it in the real world or not as controlled false flag or real event. We have done simulations for dozens of countries and JFCOM-J9 Joint Innovation and Experimental Directorate of the US Joint Forces Command is "confident" SWS will hold predictions in US as well as other nations even when several solutions are provided. If this ain't the real world working model for Westworld's Rehoboam then I don't know what. I wonder of show runners are aware of SWS and perhaps used it for the concept in the show? But when you see the details it is spooky.

[@roadrunnerbob99]

And Current, IF You can Gain Access :-)

[@ehudgavron9086]

A wine bottle is 750ml. 2x (1.5L) is a magnum. 4x (3.0L) is a double-magnum. 6x (4.5L) is a Jereboam -- except that for Champagne only -- a 4.5L is a Rehoboam. Yes, the size of the Jereboam and the size of the Rehoboam is the same, except the latter applies specifically to Champagne. Enjoy your wines and champagnes and theories about both names :) Ehud P.S. For educational purposes only: winefolly.com/tips/wine-bottle-sizes/

[@lifeiscruisey1912]

Wake me up when it’s over

[@pygmalion1963]

Is Rehoboam the big bad and Serac just a pawn

[@blackfootonegaming8387]

10:20 let’s hope this video isn’t immediately irrelevant lol

[@djrerayaloha4112]

Can a humans data be housed in a host Brain? Like a Snake in a Nest. 🐍 #BloodAurora

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

Rehoboam means "He enlarges his people"

[@aintnoslice3422]

He says as he cuts off their foreskins

[@davidcripps3011]

I think Serak is Rehoboam

[@FatigueZ]

Geological crisis in Indonesia, possible location of westworld?

[@notangryjustdismayed]

Laplace, not Laplacé

[@alexfahey3731]

I thought delores was the system but now i think she is the god come to fight serac the devil

[@darthclone2002]

Sarec = Cesar ?

[@charlesthompson8013]

Noice!!!

[@lewis821]

Intro music?

[@charlieclark9552]

Heres a theory, delores and rehoboam are the same ai

[@DNotzz]

Say it with me... Seh-Rock.

[@5naxalotl]

you're overthinking the sequence from solomon to rehoboam. computer nerds typically pick random lists to generate names. if you're just iterating through "jewish kings", the next in sequence is the king of judah, not israel, after the two nations split, because judah effectively becomes "a more authentic israel than israel". it's the judahite kings that become "the line of david". judah outlasts israel (destroyed by assyrians) and writes the history (and fwiw creates judaism in babylonian exile). jerusalem (and therefore judah) also became the religion's center in the time of david, when he moved it from the north by military force. the old testament position is that after the divided monarchy, the kings of israel are heretics, and after saul only the southern kings were "annointed by god"

[@fpvfearpanama]

I think "REHOBOAM" is an acronym...

[@gigibouse2316]

To follow up on my last post here is the link for a Corbet Report on SWS from 2012

[@prixat]

In the 1980s, Chaos Theory put an end to Laplace's Demon (and many other ideas!). Even if you know everything about a situation down to the subatomic particles and could reset the starting position again and again, it would never 'run' the same, never be predictable, the universe is chaotic at a fundamental level. Chaos is our protection against things like Laplace's Demon and Rehoboam.

[@jonatansan01]

Chaos Theory doesn't disprove a deterministic world, it only says that it's impossible to predict a system evolution because the slightliest measurement errors on the initial state would result in completely different futur states. As said by Lorenz : "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. " We can easily imagine a fictional super AI that approximate "enough" human behavior to predicts its evolution in 5, 10, 20 years.

[@djsjskmcucujdn]

Lololoshka 😂

[@Steef_Lee]

It reminds me of the AI in Person of Interest.

[@bobbydigital3061]

POI was a better show too

[@jricartgonzalez]

The Lord Is = Dolores

[@obsoleteboomermobileobsole2043]

The name Laplase is pronounced "LopLOSS" not "LopLOSSay"

[@tyty2240]

Not trying to be negative with this comment, just some constructive criticism. Please talk slower. For a video that is explaining what I think to be something that is more complex than simple, it's comes at me so quickly that I don't have enough time to process it before we're on to something else. That and it can a bit hard to actually hear sometimes. Great video though. Thanks!

[@NerdSoup]

Thank you for the feedback Tyler!! Polite and constructive comments like these are always welcomed and noted.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

If Trump's Plague keeps going, we're all going to need hosts to go get us things. Put me down on a Charlotte model.

[@bobbydigital3061]

Trump's plague?? Get a life dude.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Can't. Trump fucked up Covid control. All that put on hold. How's yours?

[@mattgilbert7347]

It's also kind of like a perversion of Plato's Republic, right? Everyone divided into classes with their roles in society predetermined and ruled over by The Guardians - or in this case, a single guardian.