Hang the DJ Analysis (Black Mirror S4E4)

In this video, I’m analyzing “Hang the DJ”, an episode of Black Mirror, released in 2017, directed by Tim Van Patten, starring Georgina Campbell and Joe Cole.
Music:
Nathan Moore "Read All Over"
Joel Cummins "Everything Has a Beginning"
Asher Fulero "Unrequited"
Coyote Hearing "Heart Strings"
Joel Cummins "Ponderous Days"
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[@nopillpill]

I loved your analysis, I found it really insightful, but I think the end of the episode was showing not only a paradox, but also a subtly horrifying conclusion.
I believe the primary reason why people would turn to an online dating site that finds you a statistical 99.8% match for long term compatibility, is to ironically avoid the serial monogamy and promiscuity involved in modern dating via online dating. So a simulation plays all that out with replicas (i.e. everything you mentioned), so that the real world individuals don't have to. The paradox is that by simulating extreme social pressure, obstacles, serial monogamy, it creates the most accurate predictions of compatibility, for exactly the same reasons that you mention. So the app that give people 99.8% compatibility would actually help people to avoid all of your criticisms of modern dating, by simulating them with 1:1 replicas of individuals.
The subtly horrifying part IMO it is that the simulations are sentient replicas of real individuals and then get destroyed when they are finished with their tasks. Essentially creating and destroying an entire consciousness for the purposes of a dating app, which is ironically even worse than modern dating's incentives to treat people as disposabie - again though, it's a paradoxical solution to modern dating's incentives to treat people as disposible.

[@filmsandmovieschannel]

I love your thoughts!

[@gethelp6271]

do melancholia. I like your analysis'.