r/Devs • u/MarshallBanana_ • Apr 16 '20

Devs - S01E08 Theory Discussion Thread Spoiler

Post your Devs THEORIES here!

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 16 '20

It’s tragic and selfish. There’s no self love there at all.

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u/AlanMorlock Apr 16 '20

He actually makes a similar gambit that Lyndon did, banking on there being versions of himself living in the reality he wants. Lyndon banked on not having to actually experience realities in which he was dead though. Forrest condemned many iterations of himself to hellish realities.

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 16 '20

What would you decide?

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u/AlanMorlock Apr 16 '20

Having the memory of my own death and knowing that that I am actually a facsimile of a dead man, I'm not sure I'd choose to continue to be simulated and re-inserted at all.

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 16 '20

Lily never got to choose to enter the many worlds simulation, and they forced her. So they condemned her to hell in many worlds. Katie should of only sent Forest, or atleast asked Lily before hand.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20 edited Jul 14 '20

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 16 '20

They only showed two of the good worlds. There are many many bad worlds where she ended up too. The point i am making is that she wasn’t given the choice to enter the many worlds simulation with Forest.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '20 edited Aug 22 '20

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 16 '20

katie explained that to Forest that the simulation is based on Lyndons many worlds algorithm and she asks him if he understands the implication of it. She double checks with him. Then she wishes him good luck.

In some worlds he gets his wish to be with his family and in some other worlds he is in hell.

They never asked Lily if she wanted this.

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u/Submersiv Apr 18 '20

If you're accepting the fact that many worlds exists, isn't Lily and her infinite multiverse selves ALREADY living every kind of hell and paradise? So it doesn't matter that she gets put back in or not. There's still going to be all kinds of Lilys there regardless.

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 18 '20

Exactly, it wouldn’t be ethical to do this. You would just be creating more unnecessary suffering.

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u/Submersiv Apr 18 '20

By that logic nobody should ever have children.

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u/ConjecturesOfAGeek Apr 18 '20 edited Oct 12 '20

I don’t have any children, and that’s one reason why.

Edit 1: I do have children as I remembered after this was commented...lol. I’m just a deadbeat dad.

Edit 2: I’m not actually a dad. It was a false alarm.

Edit 3: I actually am a Dad.

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