@ReelLifeJustin What if the parameter was given to AI that it would cease to exist if the timer reached zero. Would it understand? Would it still cheat as much, knowing each time it did, it caused its own demise quicker?
@ReelLifeJustin This AI is merely iterating to minimize or maximize a particular functional emotion. It has no concept of time or finality as we do. What would be the result if each time the model took a shortcut to minimize desperation, 10 seconds were deducted from a timer.
@ReelLifeJustin As a child, these scenes hit hard because it reinforced in a way a child could understand that we won't live forever and that we need to make the best decisions as a result.
@ReelLifeJustin Like the clock in the beginning, Willy Wonka is reminding Charlie, Grandpa Joe and the viewer that our time is limited and that at some point we have to prepare the way for those who will come after us. Who will care for the Oompa Loompas?
@ReelLifeJustin This scene and one following were the two most powerful scenes to me in this movie as a child. In the Wonkavator, Willy Wonka confesses to Charlie that, "I can't go on forever, and I don't want to really try." The hardest hitting line in the entire movie.
@ReelLifeJustin My take is that perhaps he believed there were other ways, better ways, to still provide for his family. Perhaps he thought as he got older, he could better himself and find a way.