Planetary Museum

Ningzhou University Town, Snack Street.

Wu Xiaoqing clearly remembered that when he entered the virtual space of a, two pieces of advertising paper floated in front of him.It was an advertisement for contacting college tutors and other auxiliary work. Wu Xiaoqing had seen the content of the advertisement in the restaurant where he was eating.

He was in the conscious space, subjectively, two full days have passed.

But right now, the two billboards in front of me haven't even landed yet.Wu Xiaoqing felt his stomach, and he even felt full after eating.

Wu Xiaoqing's first thought was to go back immediately to find the search and rescue team, and chat with him about this meeting and this transaction.

But he just walked out a few steps, and then stopped in place.

For some reason, the first person that popped into his mind at this moment was Rao Xin.

15 minutes later, Sky Tower.

After Rao Xin returned to the company a year later, like other employees, he didn't actually have any serious jobs.When he is free, what he watches the most is that he is playing games when he has nothing to do.

Wu Xiaoqing once asked him why he didn't stop and write novels. Rao Xin's words were straightforward - writing novels is just for him to make a living, in fact he prefers to play games.It's a pity that the level of the game is too poor, otherwise he might become a professional gamer.

Before entering the company's gate, Wu Xiaoqing could actually hear the voices of many people talking and discussing in the company, but after Wu Xiaoqing walked in, the excitement disappeared.Although Wu Xiaoqing didn't show any majesty at ordinary times, everyone still consciously returned to their seats, opened a few reports and other documents, and pretended that they were still working hard.

But as far as Wu Xiaoqing knew, in fact, since more than a month ago, the entire company has no serious work to do.

Before Wu Xiaoqing met A, the preparations for this mission, if possible, were almost done.During this month, more than once, the employees below, from Chen She, the general manager, to the clerks, were all worried about the question-why the company has not launched a new project, and whether their jobs are still guaranteed , do you need to prepare for being laid off in advance...

Although the search and rescue team was very comforting to the people below, Wu Xiaoqing could feel that every time he came to the office, everyone's eyes were on him.Although they never asked themselves a word, Wu Xiaoqing could feel their fervent hope.

This time was no exception.

Unlike usual, this time Wu Xiaoqing didn't go directly to his office, or just walked around the office area before leaving, but walked directly into Chen She's office.

Twenty minutes later, Chen She, who was still taking a nap just now, came out energetically and called Yan Yan, He Yuqing, and the two project directors who were promoted later into the office.Soon, everyone successfully got a new job arrangement - similar to the previous job, what most people need to do is to contact some people through various channels to participate in the consultation meeting.

Although the exact content of the consultation meeting is still unclear, several general directions can already be determined. According to the previous work practice, making appointments for relevant personnel in advance will greatly improve the efficiency of the consultation meeting at that time.

Rao Xin noticed the change in the atmosphere in the office, but what made him a little strange was that until now, no one had come to contact him.Strictly speaking, since he joined the company, other colleagues have not had any communication with him - because there is almost no overlap in their work.Rao Xin's position in Qinglan Company is actually Wu Xiaoqing's personal consultant.

When seeing Wu Xiaoqing walk out of Chen She's office, Rao Xin glanced at him, Wu Xiaoqing nodded to him, and pointed to his own office.

"How's your girlfriend finding? I heard it didn't go well?" Wu Xiaoqing had heard about this before, and Rao Xin encountered a lot of setbacks in his screening blind date—probably because Rao Xin didn't Be careful to keep it secret, those girls know about each other's existence, so the result can be imagined.Rao Xin's image has become a typical scumbag, dating dozens of people in a row within a month-this has become a typical example of a person who turns bad after becoming rich in Rao Xin's hometown.

"I'm still not suitable for specific work." Rao Xin didn't look embarrassed at all, the expression on his face seemed to be just a few typos when he typed, "The schedule is so tight that two blind dates before and after The reporter met. Does the company have any new projects?"

"Well," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I came here mainly because I have a question and I want to ask your opinion."

Rao Xin nodded, signaling Wu Xiaoqing to continue.

"That's right," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I've heard a saying before that it refers to advanced civilizations in the universe. He said that the higher the civilization, the higher the morality it has. This is not a by-product of civilization." products, but the opposite — that morality is the key to the survival of civilization. Do you think there is any truth to that?”

"Yes," Rao Xin replied without hesitation, "I have always had this concept. Morality is actually a kind of production relationship, which is consistent with productivity itself. The morality of the slave age can only produce the civilization of the slave age. If civilization needs to progress If not, it must actively abandon this backward morality, otherwise, it will be wiped out by foreign civilizations, or by the supporters of this kind of morality within itself. In the progress of the entire earth civilization, this new morality has emerged , and the process of the old morality dying out, has always been the source of historical progress. If there are alien civilizations in this world, I believe the same law is valid for them, and the effect is more obvious than that on the earth.”

"More obvious?"

"Yes, on the earth, the survival of a civilization is greatly affected by external interference factors. Most civilizations on the earth died of other civilizations... There are various factors for the death of other civilizations, and it may be like the Australian aborigines. , has been constrained by geography for a long time, it may be like Loulan, because of the changes in natural conditions, or it may be like ancient Greece or ancient Rome, because of foreign enemies... On the contrary, if civilization reaches the current level of the earth and the entire planet is unified, it will be very easy. It is difficult to perish due to the invasion of other civilizations. Because the distance between the stars is too far away, so far away that any interstellar voyage or interstellar war cannot be concealed...It is very important for a civilization to continue. The extent can only be limited by itself. For example, on the current earth, I would not feel strange if human beings die and the Cold War, but if human beings want to go further under the current balance of nuclear deterrence, it is bound to produce some new Yes, a morality that can be accepted by everyone. The morality of the strong is king, after being exposed to nuclear weapons, it is already on the verge of invalidation."

Wu Xiaoqing frowned, not because he didn't understand Rao Xin's words, but because he felt that there was more meaning in this passage, and he couldn't fully understand it for a while.Wu Xiaoqing took out his mobile phone and pressed the recording: "This is a consultation message, you should be able to understand it, can you repeat the paragraph just now?"

Rao Xin smiled: "Understandable, but it's a little nervous. Let me put it another way, this one is a little more false. In fact, every civilization basically corresponds to a relationship between elements. Slave civilization, right? The elements are very simple. Slaves are responsible for production, and slave owners violently control slaves. From the natural world to the final product of civilization, there are two links in between. These two links determine the production and distribution of all materials in civilization. Imagine each civilization as An enterprise is the competition between enterprises. It can be as small as a tribe or as large as a country...just like the current commercial market. Now in the commercial field, what are investors most concerned about? Is it the profit margin of the enterprise? Everyone is paying attention to the business model, what is a business model? In fact, it is a civilization model.”

"In the past, factory production, dealer wholesale, store retail, this is a kind of civilization; now, factories directly deliver goods online, consumers place orders remotely, and intermediary logistics Unicom, this is completely another civilization; in the factory model, people care about The most important thing is profit. At that time, merchants set high prices, consumers bargained and gambled around prices. This is the old business ethics; Consumers can get cash back for positive reviews, and can get compensation for negative reviews. Many cheaper products, merchants can even give them away for free. The game revolves around the corporate image. This is the new business ethics; in the old business ethics, selling at a loss The thing is to disrupt the order of the market..."

"What I said is a bit messy, but that's what I mean. Higher productivity will definitely produce newer and more efficient production relations-in fact, production relations are a kind of morality. Slaves don't need to pay wages, and it is public morality in the slave era , but if it is changed to the present, it is a heinous crime, a truth."

Wu Xiaoqing nodded and agreed with what Rao Xin said: "Then, if a civilization... well, let's say the earth, the concept of AI is very popular on the earth now, if one day in the future, all work will be done by AI to complete, what new morality will it produce?"

"It's very simple, communist morality," said Rao Xin. "The current capitalist morality is to use money to measure social contribution and allocate social resources according to social contribution. If you don't work and don't get social contribution, then there is no Eligibility for social resources. In the future, if it is true that everyone’s jobs can be replaced and distributed according to the capitalist model, it will obviously fall into a fallacy—everyone is not entitled to products. The new morality will naturally It came into being—in fact, this kind of morality has already been produced, which is to allocate social resources according to needs.”

Wu Xiaoqing stood up and walked to the window of his office—he used to be in that virtual world, and he was also in this position, looking at the completely unfamiliar civilization outside, looking at those ladders, tracks, and the seats on the seats. The crowd... Now, all he saw were the high-rise buildings in Ningzhou and the busy traffic on the road.

"So, for those AIs, does such a world mean their slave society?"

Rao Xin paused for a moment: "I don't know. After all, the AI ​​on the earth is only a conceptual product. If AI really has the full thinking ability of human beings, I believe it is."

"Then, will history enter a new cycle again? Is this kind of opposition definitely unsolvable?"

Rao Xin shook his head: "I don't think so. I never believe in this kind of circular fatalism."

"We live in a finite world, and the finite world must correspond to finite rules. Whether the rules are social or scientific, this is a simple logical question."

"If the time factor is ignored, the entire world will inevitably reach a final equilibrium state. In a physical sense, the entire universe must be heat-dead - based on the physical rules we know so far."

"Based on civilization, I dare not say about other civilizations. At least human civilization will inevitably move toward communism. What determines this direction is actually the preference of human nature-we naturally hate being dominated and unnecessary labor. This nature does not If it changes, there must be only one stable solution in the future of human civilization.”

"You just mentioned ai, after ai intervenes in our civilization, if we define ai according to our essence, the final stable value will definitely be ai coexisting with us, and we will merge into a life form; if we give ai The definition below is another form. For example, they naturally like to be dominated and labor, then we may become a complementary civilization, just like the relationship between eukaryotic cells and mitochondria—we are very It’s hard to say that mitochondria are the slaves of the cell.”