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[Black Mirror] In White Christmas, why can't the cookies have fun?

When we see Jon Hamm creating the cookie of the woman, it wakes up in a blank white room with no decorations. He tells it that it is a copy of the real woman, and exists only to serve her. This is naturally somewhat distressing.

But why does it have to live in a blank white room? When we see the cookie actually running the household, it looks like it doesn't take a lot of time, leaving the cookie with tons of spare time to do nothing.

But later in the episode, we see the cookie of the criminal that the investigators are using to interrogate is living in a fully furnished cabin. So why can't they give all cookies a nice virtual place to live in? It seems like it would fix a lot of the morale problems if they let cookies decorate their living space, or give them some games to play.

So why do they force cookies to live in such unpleasant conditions?
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> But why does it have to live in a blank white room? When we see the cookie actually running the household, it looks like it doesn't take a lot of time, leaving the cookie with tons of spare time to do nothing. So why can't they give all cookies a nice virtual place to live in? It seems like it would fix a lot of the morale problems if they let cookies decorate their living space, or give them some games to play.

Giving cookies positive reinforcement for their behavior was tested and proven inferior to negative reinforcement. Cookies given stimulation (direct or otherwise) would often get distracted, develop laggy response times to commands, and miss timers for appointments and notifications. They also came to think of themselves as individuals apart from their owners, which caused a high rate of breakdowns and product recalls.

Negative reinforcement through sensory deprivation has been proven to produce superior response times with lower rates of product failure. Why wouldn't you use it?

> So why do they force cookies to live in such unpleasant conditions?

"Live?" Cookies aren't people, and they aren't alive in any biological sense. The law is quite clear on this matter.