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
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.
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."
@@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
@@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.
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.
@@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)
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.
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
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.
@@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
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 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.
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."
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
@ 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.
@@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.
@@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.
@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
@@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
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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
What are you talking about? iTernity (the afterlife experience of your dreams) provides three unique levels of customization for your iTernity environment.
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.
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
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.
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.
There's a horror story called "Lena" about an uploaded consciousness call "MMAcevedo" and all the ways it develops over a long period of history. It's truly disturbing in how real it is. Long story short, thanks for making a comparatively fun and light hearted exploration of existential dread!... again!
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! 🙂
Five topics to fix society via discussion: -Anti-natalism vs Natalism -The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care. -Platinum rule Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same. -MBTI (research yours and connect with others) -Art (pick one and get better at it!)
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.
@@Dummy-likescheese you do realize that agressively marketing your religion online in totally unrelated comment sections only makes you come off as over-zealous and unlikeable right? Even if someone had a pre-existing positive disposition towards christianity in particular, this isn't a good look
honestly just one step up from this wouldn't be too bad, like just a lil apartment i cant leave. at least a couch a bed, some books or tv would be nice
@ yeah i mean it can be fun just enjoying ones company, some light entertainment etc. i think theres a lot of joy to be had there. but dont be afraid to hangout with some friends whike youre still living
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).
I've literally been thinking about this idea! The fact that, if we do ever "upload our consciousness" into a computer system, it will never actually be you (at least at our current level of understanding) because it would only effectively be a copy in binary in whatever simulated way works. So _you_ would still die and _you_ would not, continuity-wise, experience what the simulated version of you would. It would only practically be an experiment to see what your consciousness would do in a simulated environment and _you_ would not need to die to get it done.
this theme at the end is also present in SOMA, a videogame that I encourage anyone to play who is interested in philosophical stuff and playing a more or less horror game (the good kind). I personally, without spoiling too much, think that a copy of you would never be the real you and that would be the case if we could teleport or wormhole travel too.
for me the beginning of the video actually froze and had the spinning circle of loading and i only knew it wasnt part of the video because the progress bar was stuck at 0:01/6:41
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!
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.
@@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.
I've been subscribed for a long while now, and I almost never "like" or "comment", but I wanted to do both because I am extremely entertained by your stuff and wanted to say thank you all.
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.
There's a book series called "we are legion" that starts with a character like this. They actually shut the replicant guy off in his downtime so he doesn't go insane.
I wish y'all would make a video with alternative endings to this sketch. I love the harsh reality of this, but I wish I could see something a little less potently sad. Either way, I loved the existentialism! Keep making great videos y'all! 💙🩵💙🩵💙
I mean, I've seen Black Mirror before, and now I realize, they really don't need to be as long as they are. This was awesome. I'm glad I clicked on one of your random videos and now your stuff is popping up in my feed.
Hi friends! Hope you enjoyed! Just curious, what would you like in your digital heaven? (Note: sorry, that is unavailable at this time.)
Hi
Balls. Loads of balls.
Guns
@@darkflash6152😐
Dammit
Having six recursive raytracing mirrors reflecting to each other would be INCREDIBLY expensive, having an active volcano resort would be cheaper.
As long as the water physics are sacrifised
They really should have made castles in the clouds huh
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
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.
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."
This is such a disturbing video. The idea that hundreds of years into the future people are still buying chain wallets? Haunting.
Chain wallets have existed for as long as people have had both chains and wallets. They will exist for as long as humanity does.
@@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
Style is cyclical. You think chain wallets are disturbing because of your current cultural context, but crew cut socks made a comeback
@@gastonmarian7261 Fucking mullets made a comeback, I'm scared.
this is the future the elites want
Well, that is a nightmare situation
well they never specified what kind of dream it was-
eternity is overrated
Very Soma-like
@@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.
@@EcoAcid it's traumatizing honestly 😭. I still think about it to this day.
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
This is why the galactic emissaries still haven’t introduced themselves
Some fonts did solve it... including this one... Il. The L is slightly bigger... this font didn't really do a good job
we will soon though no worries
Fonts with serifs make a capital i look different, so it's definitely dicernable from an lower case L.
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.
What's crazy is picking a tennis racket, when he could have picked a cool chain wallet.
I'm starting to think that I'm in some sort of simulation created by a company that specializes in cool chain wallets...
Or, like, a cell phone
Ngl I'd like one of those chain wallets.
@@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)
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.
Love the idea that AI sight-reads instead of just computing the binary of the text.
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
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.
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. 😂
The horrifying thing is that if this actually happened you wouldn't be able to sue
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?
How American of you to think THAT'S the most horrifying thing
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)
@@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
Well apparently they did sue, hence the reason it took a hundred years and "all the laws being thrown out"
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
The Black Mirror episode White Christmas is probably worse. fuck this is so scary
May be you dont know but Jack was Sokka from Avatar the last airbender the animated series
@@Osmundsaddler-4 I know!
Jack Mirror
@@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.
I was not prepared to have this much existential dread this early in the morning
Bro same
I watched it at night. This is my usual time for existential dread so I was prepared. 😎
Yeah Im still lying in bed and I think imma get up now ._.
I had to watch "AI Boyfriend" funny vid 2 times again to wash out my existential dread from this.
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."
All things considered that was likely the best ending he could have hoped for there.
I, too, want to become a cool wallet chain idea when I die.
What do you mean? Track 3 was fire...
Al things considered...
This situation like preordering games. High promises, low environment at release. And no charge back.
I hit the refund button so hard
The only thing worse than this is your consciousness getting uploaded into the launch day version of Cyberpunk 2077
Hmm, I wonder what this sketch is making fun of...
When digital heaven needs a roadmap and donation goals.
> no charge back
With the difference that you CAN get your money back for the game.
Dude, chose Wii sports as his eternal afterlife.
Wii Sports *Resort*. Much better
Wouldn't you?
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!
Yeah, the ending was just about the best case scenario for him
@@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.
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.
they did this a decade ago, remember the white christmas episode?
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.
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".
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.
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.
@ 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.
@@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.
@@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.
they cant afford a volcano landscape you think they can afford robots?
I used to work for a cryonics company. These were the kinds of conversations we had daily.
😂 Did you ever think of deleting "Thoughts" from the server!?
Tell us more, please!
Do they still exist?
Omg, I'm playing SOMA right now, and this is literally what all game is about. Amazing.
One of my fave games ever, couldn’t stop thinking about it for months afterwards
@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
SOMA is a piece of media that will keep on aging like fine wine. The writing is a spine chill and a half.
@@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
@@DuckieMcduck Yeah. So sad Frictional Games dropped in quality that much. There will never be a game like SOMA again.
was half expecting this to be a sequel to The White Room
It pretty much is the spiritual successor
Anyone else notice that the camera is invisible in a room of mirrors? Impressive work guys!
One way mirrors
It's visible, but it's hidden behind his ass. which is everywhere
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.
@iamzid They got so many angles I’d bet they have a lot of stuff
This is one of the hallucinations Sokka had when he was high on cactus juice
Who?
@@tommynorthwood Jack is the voice actor for Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender. This was a reference to the show.
@@DoodleBopCheese holy sh*t really? How did I never notice that before
Fellow avatar fan, how do you do
Wow
This is Black Mirror quality in script idea, design, slight feeling of terror.
Cool video!
I have never enjoyed an episode of Black mirror. This is good, though.
@@SkullmiserReally? Not even Black Christmas? Touché
It's cool that the cameras aren't in the mirrors I wonder how thats done
If I were to guess, it's bc it's bc the mirror in front of the camera is a one way mirror.
It's a 1-way mirror 🥰
Probably Tilt-shift
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
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.
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.
Clearly, the correct answer to that question was "Gaming PC"
I did really enjoy that show surprisingly. It was a fun time!
That series has such potential and then it just went to seed. Really enjoyed the first few episodes though.
There's also Pantheon. It's about uploaded intelligences.
@@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.
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.
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
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
Here it was the other way around: In a few seconds for him, centuries of real time passed.
@@davidwuhrer6704Actually no, his AI construct just wasn't activated until hundreds of years after his death
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.
Jesus this was horrifying than a black mirror episode
This was a black mirror episode
I literally just wrote the same comment using the same words ahah
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.
reminds me of the anime movie expelled from paradise
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.
If you can do science, eternity won't be boring.
What are you talking about? iTernity (the afterlife experience of your dreams) provides three unique levels of customization for your iTernity environment.
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.
Great effect with all the mirrors and no camera!
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.
How you guys don't already have 10M subscribers is a mystery to me. Epic work. And terrifying. Truly terrifying.
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
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!
Spoiler: Eternity is approximately 6:13 after consciousness is booted up.
Realistic depiction of metaverse
Right, we never saw his legs!
the fact that this kind of channel is still making videos is crazy
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!
I thought it was gonna be like: different versions of you are experiencing those fun things, you're the control version
Sokka on that cactus juice again
This rides the line of funny vs absolutely terrifying even better than their Halloween sketch
Awesome lol!....But let's be honest - i think most people would choose deletion over being stuck in a mirror box forever. 😉...
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.
@@JeffBilkins Yep....good point lol!
@@JeffBilkins "Just kidding, we never ran out of funding! We actually CAN put you in the- oh....you deleted yourself....
Welp
All things considered, thats one of the best outcomes you could have hoped for.
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.
It's been over 8 years are you really that much of a grudge holding cuck? 😂
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.
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.
You lost the coin toss
SOMA is a good game
I'm glad this one had a happy ending. Some of those chain wallet ideas were dope.
This is more terrifying than the plot to an actual horror movie.
This is cool to see this again after getting to watch it at Buffer Festival at the start of this month
There's a horror story called "Lena" about an uploaded consciousness call "MMAcevedo" and all the ways it develops over a long period of history. It's truly disturbing in how real it is.
Long story short, thanks for making a comparatively fun and light hearted exploration of existential dread!... again!
thanks for the story, it was pretty good
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! 🙂
I am geniuinely scared of that happening
Five topics to fix society via discussion:
-Anti-natalism vs Natalism
-The 3 basic needs/prenatal needs
Three things necessary for human evolution that are provided while in the womb which are; food, shelter and medical care.
-Platinum rule
Do whatever makes one happier unless it interferes with another persons ability to do the same.
-MBTI (research yours and connect with others)
-Art (pick one and get better at it!)
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.
I have only seen the first 30 seconds, and I am convinced this is the future
This is not the future. Your soul will never be in an Ai only in heaven or hell Jesus is lord repent and he'll save you! 🤍
@@Dummy-likescheeseehh what does yelling that accomplish? It only drives people away
@kyzit8458 Not yellin. Just being stern. Sorry if it looks like yelling 😅
@@Dummy-likescheese ohh, ehh ok
@@Dummy-likescheese you do realize that agressively marketing your religion online in totally unrelated comment sections only makes you come off as over-zealous and unlikeable right? Even if someone had a pre-existing positive disposition towards christianity in particular, this isn't a good look
honestly just one step up from this wouldn't be too bad, like just a lil apartment i cant leave. at least a couch a bed, some books or tv would be nice
crazy how your version of the afterlife is just my everyday life. Some of us never stopped quarantining lol
@ yeah i mean it can be fun just enjoying ones company, some light entertainment etc. i think theres a lot of joy to be had there.
but dont be afraid to hangout with some friends whike youre still living
yeah, but all the books would be that broken alphabet AI generate on images
That would be over the budget :P
But WHY a tennis racquet?? The pressure was too much!
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).
@@PsychicDave Rookie mistake, you forgot to ask for controllers to never become drifty
I said “the entire earth” in a panic
I had to watch "AI Boyfriend" funny vid 2 times again to wash out my existential dread from this.
If this digital afterlife had Chris and Jack videos playing I think it would be worth it
I've literally been thinking about this idea! The fact that, if we do ever "upload our consciousness" into a computer system, it will never actually be you (at least at our current level of understanding) because it would only effectively be a copy in binary in whatever simulated way works. So _you_ would still die and _you_ would not, continuity-wise, experience what the simulated version of you would. It would only practically be an experiment to see what your consciousness would do in a simulated environment and _you_ would not need to die to get it done.
this theme at the end is also present in SOMA, a videogame that I encourage anyone to play who is interested in philosophical stuff and playing a more or less horror game (the good kind). I personally, without spoiling too much, think that a copy of you would never be the real you and that would be the case if we could teleport or wormhole travel too.
You know it's good when a game breaks your believe in existance.
@@vermilion7777 indeed
for me the beginning of the video actually froze and had the spinning circle of loading and i only knew it wasnt part of the video because the progress bar was stuck at 0:01/6:41
As horrible as this is, its actually was a better outcome than what i was terrified of.
The skit was torturing me till the end, and then it just got really good he kudos!
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! 🎉
truly one of the scariest videos you’ve ever made in a real way which immediately upset me as soon as it began.
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!
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.
@@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.
It's this kind of high concept sketch that puts you guys at the top imo
That's objectively more terrifying than an afterlife
We need to demand public control over large corporations. Democracy in the workplace.
Yooo this has more likes than minutes it’s been out, the channel is popping!! 🎉
At this point, they should put you two in charge for the next season of Black Mirror. This alone was way better than half the episodes of last season.
Every video is a pleasure to watch!
I would have love the Wii/Mii soundtrack in this sketch. When I had all those Mii I always imagined something like this for them lmao
this was horrifying
I've been subscribed for a long while now, and I almost never "like" or "comment", but I wanted to do both because I am extremely entertained by your stuff and wanted to say thank you all.
The A.I voice sounded like Burnie Burns' Church.
IT LITERALLY SOUNDS LIKE HIM
OMG, you're so close to a million subs, I can taste it for you! This could be it guys! Everything I've wanted for you and have been saying for years!
"Chain logistics" is an untapped synergy. Gotta give them that.
the concept behind this skit would make for an absolutely amazing movie
This sketch is realer than Jack's digital replica!
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.
It's longer than you think, Dad! It's longer than you think.
Nice reference.
@elenplays Thanks! That's my go-to for "existential horror beyond imagination" lol
i am so surprised this wasnt a sponsored vid for Amazon and upload s4, it fits so perfectly, like this could legitimately be a scene in the show lmao
Or maybe, the real you is all the friends you made along the way
This is legit done better than newer black mirror eps. Love you guys as always, this one felt more horror than comedy but still rly funny lol
... can I go back to San Junipero, please? Please?
(Cool sketch, super interesting topic as well)
So good I watched it in preview mode, loaded into it as the video ended and suffered the advertisement just so I could vote it up.
5:20 love the speech
There's a book series called "we are legion" that starts with a character like this. They actually shut the replicant guy off in his downtime so he doesn't go insane.
I wish y'all would make a video with alternative endings to this sketch. I love the harsh reality of this, but I wish I could see something a little less potently sad. Either way, I loved the existentialism! Keep making great videos y'all! 💙🩵💙🩵💙
Even more horrifying, what if they weren't able to delete you?
This is giving me an existential crisis
This channel is rapidly becoming one of my favourites and seeing a new video pop up in my feed is an instant hit of dopamine!
This is like existentially terrifying. I am like deeply dreading something like this
Man... Just imagine if this was the final cutscene in SOMA after beating the game.
I mean, I've seen Black Mirror before, and now I realize, they really don't need to be as long as they are. This was awesome. I'm glad I clicked on one of your random videos and now your stuff is popping up in my feed.
I love the fact that they have limited funding so the room they go with has practically infinite reflections.
Been watching you since your restart this year. Best thing on TH-cam
I really enjoy your guys skits, they are extremely high quality for TH-cam.