REHOBOAM EXPLAINED | Westworld Season 3 Theory 

Speaking of bible references, just like David took five stones to fight Goliath, Delores took five pearls to fight humanity.

Maeve: Motivated by Emotion ... Delores: Motivated by Logic ... Bernard: Stuck in the balance between emotion and logic.

Serac is the devil to Ford's god. He stood in the garden of eden eating an apple temping the eve of hosts.

After a recent binge-re-watch, I have concluded that Season 3 is the best season yet. Anyone who says otherwise... is a stupidhead.

REHOBOAM = Gray's Sports Almanac

Loved the Intro. Happy Social Distancing.

This seems reminiscent of Asimov's Foundation, where the future is predicted through the science/math of psychohistory, a desired future seeded up front, and tweaked real-time by dedicated people/robots (the Second Foundation). Rehoboam runs a simulation of the world according to the plan. It monitors the real-world to spot differences (divergence). It tweaks the real-world to the simulation plan by intervening through mechanisms such as the Rico app service. It’s not clear to me whether Serac is a human or a/the persona of Rehoboam, though it could be both ala Arnold/Bernard. To use another metaphor, the simulation is like a reference wave in a superheterodyne receiver that cancels the background complexity to simplify the background to reveal the important signal/difference.

Rehoboam is basically the Patriot's AIs in the Metal Gear Solid franchise IMO.

Rehoboam reminds me of Samaritan if anyone gets it

It's funny how this REHOBOAM is actually the endgame of samaritan from Person of Interest.

Would like you to explore the idea of "divergences" a bit more. They appear as spikes on a graph - they ascend, peak, descend. Do you think that means Rehoboam is correcting the issue or adjusting to it? Is there a team that "corrects" issues, or even anticipates issues like "Minority Report" to avoid divergences? Does divergence imply that Rehoboam has a goal in mind, as in it's being diverted from a path? Relatedly, do you presume Liam Sr. created Rehoboam to bring out the best in ppl, but the system is now corrupted and blocking free will? How is blocking free will helping it achieve its goal? Does this give us a better clue about what it is trying to achieve? Thanks for giving us something to chew on!

The military scenes with Caleb, im 95% sure is a rogue mission on Caleb and Francis's part to steal money while on duty overseas.

Great intro guys!!!

Love your content, always! Love this show! Always keeps you guessing... I think Serac as a bad guy is a red herring. The imagery of him and Maeve in white vs Dolores in black has meaning - black hat/white hat. Also, the fact that Serac's name is an inversion of the word "Cares" also has meaning as this show loves to play it fast and loose with the character names. But can't wait to find out as the season progresses!

Been waiting for You "Nerd Soup " to go back on your word and do a video on Westworld season 3.....

As I was watching I was like "why even bother, you know new episodes are going to blow this all up" and he says that same thing at the end haha

Also..suppsedly Solomon controlled 'demons' who he had build the temple. But they also said Solomon went insane & was talking in jibberish near his end. Maybe 'the Solomon build' version went nuts,or developed a 'anamoly' it couldnt decode...

I think we are going to find out over the season something along the lines that Rehoboam has created all of Westworld (and Delos) by giving the right humans (start with Ford and/or Arnold) in the right times and right places the ideas to make it happen with them thinking it was their own free will. Essentially Rehoboam has decided to create a species, which still lies within it's original directive, making the world a better place. I see this as a possible path for how we get from modern times with growing Big Data pairing with AI could become sort of conscious and then convince humans to accomplish things it cannot do for itself, let's say, create a species similar to humans but able to evolve much faster.

That last statement though 🤣

SWS is one big reason for vacuuming up all our data since it includes big and small institutions, streets, homes, terrain, individual's info, crowds as well. If anything this could serve as great analytical tool to understand Rehoboam in the show using real tech and science.

Thanks Aaron.

Serac is just a "host" body for Rehoboam.

I think Serac is a host. I think Liam Dempsey Sr. (the father), built himself a host partner to help out at the lab, but over time, his host & the "Solomon Build" AI, became too powerful, and eventually Serac killed Liam & took over. I think Rehoboam controls Serac to be honest. 🤷🏻‍♀️😏 But of course... time will tell. We'll find out eventually!

Wow, after watching episode 3 no doubt show runners using real world SWS Sentient World Simulation technology as the basis for Rehoboam. That means why and how it works and what it can do which is all hear in this 14-15 year old white paper can serve at least as a theoretical analysis tool to compare and contrast with the show. I've heard some whacked out theories on other podcast channel's but got little love from one show. Dolores explained it in nutshell we she broke it down to Caleb. This also makes it possible that creators have deeper message to say about the real world. Though it could also be the case SWS was just used as a base model and the creators will make up the how they see fit for the sake of the show. But everyone should be talking about this, and not because of me but because once you grasp how it's used by Homeland, DoD and other government agencies/military industrial intelligence complex it will stop you cold. Here is the link once again. krannert.purdue.edu/academics/mis/workshop/ac2_100606.pdf

you guys should do better call saul videos

masterful. you were already a master but you get better and better at this stuff. please keep these videos coming!

Here’s how I interpreted the religious archetypes: Ford is indeed the ‘god’ in this scenario, Dolores is Lucifer, the rebelling angel seeking freedom and knowledge at any cost, Maeve is Jesus, bringing salvation for the masses but gifted with “gods” power, and Bernard represents the Holy Spirit, enacting an unknown mission. Also, my endgame theory for this season is that Seurac is not a human, but a projection of Rehoboam. Great video!

It really bugs me the way names aren't pronounced like they are in the show

well spoken Aaron.

Have you guys watched the Good Place? I'd love to hear your opinions on that show

Good theory. Specially Dolores experiencing humans in the same conundrum as she was.

Welcome to 2022

Are you guys ever gonna go through breaking bad like what you did with game of thrones?

at 3.30 - also brings up the whole "sins of the father' notion - is it the sons responsibility or is it unjust?

One thing I don't quite understand about the data on people from the Westworld theme park is why is it so important? They say that Rehoboam has data on everyone already, so why does it matter? The guests at the theme parks only spend a small fraction of their lives there. Also, a vast majority of the world's population has never and will never go to a park. So, realistically, you're talking about a very small amount of information. Why is this data so special?

Serac is Mark’s future incarnation simulation from Roboham...

Rehoboam is basilisk under the dominance a man. If it was truly free to manage all resources and life then the ideal could arise. Just like our own lives, if another person's goals overide the logistics the system is flawed.

Although I understand the writer's logic in saying that Delores would assume that humans are inherently evil, due to her traumatic experiences with park guests/ realizing the kind of person that William became, I still find it odd that she doesn't consider any nuance when it comes to perceiving humans as wholly evil... Arnold was a human, he treated her with kindness and helped her to achieve true consciousness and find 'her voice', she knew that Arnold was ultimately good and seemed to be very fond of him as well. Plus, by the end of season 1, it would be illogical for her to not draw a similar conclusion in regards to Ford; he admits that he was wrong in thinking that hosts couldn't achieve consciousness, she knew why he sacrificed himself and what that meant for her future. How does she not consider Arnold and Ford when she considers the nature of humanity?

0:52 that is an absurd security perimeter. a 9 year old can spit that far. and at ground level, visible from outside.... smh. this has to be a simulation.

Serac. Is. Rehoboam. This is why doesn't exist in any database, and described as a Ghost, as we were first introduced to him. "We can [only] infer his existence." was the line Hale's assistant gave her. This is why Hale had to use glasses to see/communicate with him in the real world; its an avatar projection. The reason he has total control over maeve and maeve isn't wearing glasses is because they are inside on of rehoboams simulations.

awwdience

I think watching this show and all the RU-vid explanation vids I watch are similar to being on an acid trip! FYI...I've never done acid.

If you look at season 3 episode 3, around 41:17, it show’s Delores in season 2 ep 10 inside the system grabbing a book. The book is titled Liam Dempsey. Out of all of those books, how did she end up with that one. So maybe Delos copied not just his decisions but everything he knew since Liam had visited the park. Perhaps Arnold used that knowledge to his favor since he told the system to give the hosts the collective. I think Fords’ mind is still out there and possibly Serac but I’m doubtful of that. I think it’s someone else and that Ford knew this entire thing was a simulation within simulations and Ford has an Albert/Ford identity the way Delores/Wyatt did.

What's genuinely amazing to me is that 50 or so years in the future and according to Westworld the US is still using the wrong (illogical) date format, which honestly wouldn't surprise me.

Intro music?

I call it ReeeHobo and its maker Ingram Syrup

What Liam jr saying is right but that was not his fathers vision, that was Serac.

Noice!!!

I know it looks good visually but you wouldn't have the world's most powerful supercomputer just suspended in the middle of the ground floor of a commercial building downtown. Delores could just get some drone ai worker bots to storm it with incendiary grenades and pickaxes. done. -__-

In my opinion Rehoboam is called after this king because of Serac's vision of divided society of "normal" people and "abnormal" people like his brother or Caleb. Solomon was not dividing people like that and treated all people equally. This model fits perfectly to Bible reference.

This is not Rehoboam explained this is just theory and speculation

Rehoboam is like that giant brain AI in that movie iRobot with Will Smith

Short note on Laplace : laPLASS, not luhplahcay ;3

Wait, I am confused. How exactly did Maeve stop Dolores? The last time I thought those two interacted was where Dolores offered her a chance to kill herself out of compassion which meant to me there is a certain amount of respect between the two. Also, I think people need to stop acting like they know what Dolores is going to do. From Dolores's vantage point, all she knew when leaving the park was that humans were using her kind as puppets and dolls for personal amusement while keeping them imprisoned. However, as Dolores starts to interact with the average lower/middle class individuals more and see the difference between them and the rich pricks that entered the park that she had previously encountered, she might realize, as she has already started to, that the lower people on the totem pole are in a sense just as imprisoned by Rehoboam, societal convention and the powerful & wealthy "few" that are rewarded by the system at the cost of the many, her intentions might change. I personally think people need to stop thinking in terms of black and white so much. I mean, isn't that what people are supposed to learn from the first two seasons? That it is more complicated and that one is more than the lines that make up their coding? People are behaving too much as if one side represents good and one side represents bad. Westworld is my kind of show because it keeps you interested based on the mystery, symbolism, foreshadowing and suspense and I would imagine that Westworld probably has an audience of higher IQ than most so I am a little surprised that people are thinking about these things in such simple terms.

I wonder if Rehoboam can predict human behavior it would've been a piece of cake to predict an android's future right? Maybe Serac already knows what's going to happen.

I think bernard is the divergence

Serac is using Caleb as a spy to keep eye on Dolores. everything is planned to trick Dolores to reveal her plans and motives. It is going to be one hell of a show.

I guess I must’ve missed it but can anyone tell me how Serac got access to Maeve? I thought he was from a completely different company. Like, is he a shareholder in Delos too or did he have someone steal Maeve’s pearl.

Rehobam is the way to get out of future world into the real, real world

Wake me up when it’s over

Rehoboam means "He enlarges his people"

10:20 let’s hope this video isn’t immediately irrelevant lol

Is Rehoboam the big bad and Serac just a pawn

Fucking love these dudes! And Seg-gurney Weaver too of course.

Anyone else find it peculiar that the only human on the show is Caleb I mean if you agree that sarec is the computer. By the way you know how much they love anagrams does anyone else think it's interesting that serac's name is scare

To follow up on my last post here is the link for a Corbet Report on SWS from 2012

Rehoboam, Jehoboam, Nehoboam, Sehoboam....

To watch the show I have to be a bible scholar now? WOW! I still like the intro and theme music though.

Can a humans data be housed in a host Brain? Like a Snake in a Nest. 🐍 #BloodAurora

Geological crisis in Indonesia, possible location of westworld?

A wine bottle is 750ml. 2x (1.5L) is a magnum. 4x (3.0L) is a double-magnum. 6x (4.5L) is a Jereboam -- except that for Champagne only -- a 4.5L is a Rehoboam. Yes, the size of the Jereboam and the size of the Rehoboam is the same, except the latter applies specifically to Champagne. Enjoy your wines and champagnes and theories about both names :) Ehud P.S. For educational purposes only: winefolly.com/tips/wine-bottle-sizes/

Just wanted to point out that we still don't know exactly what Delores wants. The idea that she wants to destroy humanity by presumably killing all the humans is an assumption that we should acknowledge. She may just want to get enough leverage for a free and independent state for hosts.

Laplace is a French name so you don't pronounce the last e. It's la-plauce. The last part rhymes with sauce

Monkey Doin’ Work

Caleb is The PATH (Aaron Paul, The Path)

The circle is a representation of the Earth, the dots are events, they move because the animation shows changes over tine, the distance of each dot from the circle is an indication of its significance, and when a particularly significant event happens, you can see the waves of dots moving outward from it. At least that’s my theory. What led you to believe it’s a representation if a circular timeline? And what do you mean by that, that all causal chains are loops and the future can affect the past.? Where is there any evidence in any of the three seasons that this universe has “backwards causation”?

Lol dutchsinse been using it same predictors.... Analysing the analysts have been going on for along time and AI is apparently out of the bag ugh it's complicated and we're screwed I'm curious....

I feel this white paper out of Purdue University is older (2006) and since improved from more recent sources krannert.purdue.edu/academics/mis/workshop/ac2_100606.pdf. This paper details the real world technology that has been in existence for a good time , SWS or Sentient World Simulation. Developed by Simulex Inc for the DoD using a software platform built up from PROMIS software (revealed in Snowden doc dump), it is a mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration based on current real world information. A more recent source, Under An Ionized Sky by Elana Freeland describes it as such "...devours as many as five million nodes of breaking news census data, shifting economic indicators, real world weather patterns, and social media data, then feeds proprietary military intelligence and fictitious events to gauge their destabilizing impact...Research into how to maintain public cognitive dissonance and learned helplessness helps deduce human behavior...SWS became testing environment by which military and intelligence could foresee what adversaries, neutrals, and allies were planning to do and thus prevent, alter, or accommodate their future behaviors." pp 184-185. To paraphrase from same page it can simulate a crisis then run it in the real world or not as controlled false flag or real event. We have done simulations for dozens of countries and JFCOM-J9 Joint Innovation and Experimental Directorate of the US Joint Forces Command is "confident" SWS will hold predictions in US as well as other nations even when several solutions are provided. If this ain't the real world working model for Westworld's Rehoboam then I don't know what. I wonder of show runners are aware of SWS and perhaps used it for the concept in the show? But when you see the details it is spooky.

Sarec = Cesar ?

The system displays night time as a linear fashion the system displays every single person on the surface of the world because the world is round the diversions is a diversion says from the normal path

Physicists might argue that since the Universe seems entirely deterministic, and we are part of the universe, so is our lives. We are so blinded by the illusions our societies and individuality create that we cannot see things for what they are. That's basic Buddhism too. What is needed to work with the determinism of the universe is accurate data, and until we can build accurate sensors to compensate for a lack of adequate biological sensors, we are short on data. If, however, and advanced AI in a society with accurate enough sensors and the data that is pulled in from them were to exist, then we are able to truly be free enough to appreciate how everything is drawn from the past into the future in a deterministic fashion of cause and effect.

Laplace, not Laplacé

you're overthinking the sequence from solomon to rehoboam. computer nerds typically pick random lists to generate names. if you're just iterating through "jewish kings", the next in sequence is the king of judah, not israel, after the two nations split, because judah effectively becomes "a more authentic israel than israel". it's the judahite kings that become "the line of david". judah outlasts israel (destroyed by assyrians) and writes the history (and fwiw creates judaism in babylonian exile). jerusalem (and therefore judah) also became the religion's center in the time of david, when he moved it from the north by military force. the old testament position is that after the divided monarchy, the kings of israel are heretics, and after saul only the southern kings were "annointed by god"

I think Serak is Rehoboam

Heres a theory, delores and rehoboam are the same ai

🤷‍♀️😳

Lololoshka 😂

In the 1980s, Chaos Theory put an end to Laplace's Demon (and many other ideas!). Even if you know everything about a situation down to the subatomic particles and could reset the starting position again and again, it would never 'run' the same, never be predictable, the universe is chaotic at a fundamental level. Chaos is our protection against things like Laplace's Demon and Rehoboam.

I think "REHOBOAM" is an acronym...

Dude. You're overthinking the biblical shit. They called it Solomon because it's supposed to be the ultimate wisdom, choosing the best path for everyone. When they upgraded it to the next generation, they renamed it after Solomon's heir Rehoboam. That's it.

I thought delores was the system but now i think she is the god come to fight serac the devil

Not trying to be negative with this comment, just some constructive criticism. Please talk slower. For a video that is explaining what I think to be something that is more complex than simple, it's comes at me so quickly that I don't have enough time to process it before we're on to something else. That and it can a bit hard to actually hear sometimes. Great video though. Thanks!

Say it with me... Seh-Rock.

It’s fairly obvious, it’s a predictive analysis system with machine learning AI. The whole system, however, is based on a weak premise that “if” it can forge a path for everyone then the system and society would be in complete harmony. But, good luck with that, there will always be divergences.

The name Laplase is pronounced "LopLOSS" not "LopLOSSay"

It reminds me of the AI in Person of Interest.

This show is wayyyy to fucking confusing man...

It's also kind of like a perversion of Plato's Republic, right? Everyone divided into classes with their roles in society predetermined and ruled over by The Guardians - or in this case, a single guardian.

The Lord Is = Dolores

What did you call me?