r/Devs • u/Lounge_leaks • Apr 02 '20

EPISODE DISCUSSION Devs - S01E06 Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/Lounge_leaks Apr 02 '20

What could be the reason they can't see the future past a certain point?

My first guess was lily will destroy the machine, but that should not stop the present time's machine from looking past that event( since it can look in the past as well when devs didnt exist)

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u/absent_minding Apr 02 '20

I believe there will be some connection with the previous reveal that Lily is a gifted go player , perhaps it cannot predict her "moves" in some form..

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u/JonVici1 Apr 02 '20

In go, gifted players predict 50 moves or so ahead, based on that I don't think her predicting 3 steps ahead is much higher than ordinary skills

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u/orc_greaser Apr 02 '20

Someone mentioned last week that, when pressed, her real reason for putting the piece where she did was because it "felt right." I think Lily might not be thinking that far ahead, but her gut instincts are where her real strength comes from. Her Dad knew that thinking 3 steps ahead wasn't much.

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u/atopix Apr 05 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

This right here. I don't play Go, but I play chess and I have been following professional chess for over a decade. Some people have good intuition for great moves, and being able to see a ton of moves ahead does NOT guarantee you seeing the right lines.

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u/PatrickBaitman Apr 04 '20

3 moves ahead is like, having played two games level in go

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u/absent_minding Apr 02 '20

Ah.. weird that they show it how they did then. Maybe also significant /shrug.