Name: Destiny & MrMouton Attempt to Solve Veritasium's Weird Puzzle
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T22:31:55.000Z
Duration: 19 min 35 s
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And I can't bring up without starting a fight.

It has infiltrated every single Veritasi meeting in the last two months.

I didn't think you would fall for this side.

There's no way you're trying to convince.

You walk into a room and there's a supercomputer and two boxes.

Are you just repeating from the conversation yesterday?

I think this is like, there's like a million dollars in one and a thousand dollars in the other.

And you have to pick which one, but the computer knows what you're going to pick or something.

It's like something retarded, like this, I think.

One box is open, and it's got $1,000 in it.

The other box is a mystery box you can't see inside.

You also know that this supercomputer is very good at predicting people.

It has correctly predicted the choices of thousands of people in the exact problem you're about to face.

Now, you don't know what that problem is yet, but

you do know that it has been correct almost every time.

Now, the supercomputer says you can either take both boxes, that is the mystery box and the $1,000, or you can just take the mystery box.

Well, the supercomputer tells you that before you walked into the room, it made a prediction about your choice.

If the supercomputer predicted you would just take the mystery box and you'd leave the $1,000 on the table, well, then it put a million dollars into the mystery box.

But if the supercomputer predicted that you would take both boxes, then it put nothing in the mystery box.

The supercomputer made its prediction before you knew about the problem and it has already set up the boxes.

It's not trying to deprive you of any money.

Its only goal is to make the correct prediction.

Wait, does the computer predict you based on knowing that you're going to talk to the computer?

Wait, why is the answer then not just the mystery box?

There's going to be some fucking retarded math way to figure out why that's the wrong answer.

Both boxes or do you just take the mystery box?

If it predicts that you take both boxes, then the mystery box is empty.

Right about how the supercomputer is making its prediction.

Instead of a computer, you could think of it as a super intelligent alien, a cunning demon, or even.

A team of the world's best psychologists.

It really doesn't matter who or what is making the prediction.

All you need to know is that they are extremely accurate and that they make that predict before you walked into the room.

Pause the video now if you want to think about it.

I don't know why you wouldn't just take the mystery box.

Like obviously I'm gonna say I'm just gonna take the million dollars.

Okay, this is seeming less paradoxical than I thought because I should just go in and take a mystery box only.

One boxers who would take only the mystery box and two boxers who take both.

Can you figure out what's wrong for the two boxes?

Well, if you would take two boxes, then the thing would just leave one box empty.