Correction: After reading everyone's comments, I thought about it seriously. It is true that the three encounters in the film belong to the same simulation, accounting for 0.1% of the 1000 times, instead of the three times I said. In addition, 999 simulations did not appear in the film. I didn’t bother to change the original text.
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I feel that many people did not understand the fourth episode of "Hanged DJ". Let me explain to you the origin of 99.8%.
There is a blind date software called OkCupid in the United States. Everyone has to answer countless questionnaires. From the questions, choose their own answer and the answer of the other party that they think is acceptable, and choose how important the question is to them. When viewing other people's information, the system will integrate all the answers from both parties to calculate the degree of match between the two. For example, you say that you prefer cats and do not accept that the other person chooses to prefer dogs and you think this is important, but the other person prefers dogs; you say that you smoke and the other person cannot accept your partner's smoking, etc., etc. The system will calculate, oh well, your matching degree is very low, only less than 10%. When you see this number on the blind date software, you will ignore this potential object and go to chat with a higher-matched object.
The blind date system in the fourth episode of the story is a futuristic and exaggerated version of the matching algorithm. Unlike OkCupid answering questions to obtain data, this system requires you to practice virtual to obtain your data (such data is more real).
Let me talk about the setting first. The background of the setting is that this is a utopian-like society, and everyone must obey the arrangement with a high degree of centralization. Based on the current data, the system simulates your lifestyle and the way you get along with each other to simulate a virtual love experience and then force you to separate. The system will finally figure out whether you will risk your life to escape from the virtual world because you like each other enough and are unwilling to separate after you arrange a relationship. Imagine if a person is very uncomfortable with you, of course you don't want to stay for more than a minute, and you won't take risks for the sake of him, right?
The system simulates 1000 love scenarios for the hero and heroine in total, and the film shows three times: the first time was a one-night stand without rolling the sheets, they did not escape, the second time it became 20 hours after five years and they did not escape, and the third time they escaped. . They also fled 997 times that were not shown in the video, that is, 998 times out of 1000 times, so it is 99.8%.
When I first watched it, everyone thought that the number "99.8%" means that 99.8% of users have found true love. In fact, this is because the film deliberately confuses it, but at the end it shakes a burden. What's interesting is that this number often appears in the virtual relationship between the hero and the heroine, which means that the system has already been simulated to know the result of the algorithm. You think their virtual love process is a calculation process, but in fact it is just the result of calculation.
The whole story in real life is actually like this: the male and female protagonist meets in a music bar, and when viewing each other’s information on the blind date software, the blind date software’s system simulates the above 1,000 times within a few hundred millionths of a second and then gives Conclusion: You two are a good match. So the two looked at each other and prepared to start a conversation. So don't be moved, this story is not a happy ending, but just a beginning. The vigorous two people you see are just two pieces of code. As for whether two people can succeed in reality, it is not certain. Real life has more complex variables and more uncontrollable than the simulated world. The algorithm is not perfect, no matter how advanced it is. .
In addition, why is it four times every time? Those who have seen The Matrix will understand that the natural things in the real world are absolutely random, while the things in the simulated world have laws to follow. The system deliberately sets this rule so that everyone can observe and gradually realize that this is a virtual world. In fact, it is secretly encouraging the couple to escape from the virtual world. It's just that no one knows the result of escape, so they will only choose to escape when they are fighting for the future of true love. The system judges whether the result of this simulated love is true love based on whether you have fled or not.
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