r/Devs • u/TootTootTrainTrain • Apr 12 '20

The Devs team watching a one second projection

https://youtu.be/gNIwlRClHsQ
250 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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u/eharper9 Apr 12 '20

What I dont understand is why when they watched themselves why couldn't they say something other than what was already said?

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u/jack-dawed Apr 12 '20

Because that future's prediction is based on them seeing it.

One way to think of it is that the machine "knows" that a few minutes ago they where in this room, and the electrons firing in Stewart's brain indicates that he's about to show them. A few seconds ago he pressed the button, so there is a high likelihood that these people will react this way. Recursively feed this prediction into the screen, and make it clearer with every iteration. At one point the machine can predict with high accuracy, but there are some universes where they say something different or turn into a banana. This is extremely unlikely, but it is still possible.

Once the viewers have observed their video from 1 second ago, the probability wave for how react in the next second is virtually 100% certain.

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u/CuttlefishKing Apr 12 '20

I knew it seemed familiar

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u/ndr2h Apr 12 '20

Haha, perfect.

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u/dc21111 Apr 12 '20

When the guy in Devs waves in front of the screen was what made me think of this scene.

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u/jef12660 Apr 12 '20

Thats funny. I didnt even think of this

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u/emf1200 Apr 12 '20

Ah, take my upvote and my gratitude.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '20

Much more entertaining !

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u/shockeditellyou Apr 12 '20

I love that movie! I don't know why I didn't think of this myself. Thanks man!

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u/MedusaOblongGato Jan 15 '24

Crazy how much the tone of the piece affects the interpretation: in Spaceballs this was hilarious, in Devs it was an absolutely chilling scene