Planetary Museum

Sky Tower, an underground warehouse.

When Wu Xiaoqing came in, the search and rescue team was busy. The concept of being busy was that Wu Xiaoqing said a word to him, and he needed more than 30 seconds to reply.Although it is still possible to communicate, the efficiency is very low, and most importantly, this state is very unsuitable for decision-making.

Wu Xiaoqing has now roughly understood some principles of the search and rescue team. Before that, he still regarded the search and rescue team as an AI. If it is really an AI, it only needs to give enough computing resources to significantly improve the thinking of the search and rescue team. efficiency.

Later, Wu Xiaoqing discovered that the thinking mode of the search and rescue team is actually close to that of human beings.

Although the search and rescue team can easily do multi-threaded work, there is a limit to this thread - it is probably equivalent to doing the work of seven or eight people at the same time, and if there are more, it will appear as it is now - Wu Xiaoqing asked "You What are you doing?" I didn't get an answer until 2 minutes later - "Pay attention to the futures markets of various countries".

After sitting down, Wu Xiaoqing turned on the mobile phone in his hand, ready to listen to the conversation between him and Rao Xin just now.

"If you look at it in a broad sense, human society is still a slave society. Isn't the behavior of controlling people through capital called slavery? Employees and slaves are only different in the degree of slavery."

"As you said, there is such a highly developed society that relies on AI to perform work. In essence, it is because the AI ​​they create is still an anthropomorphic program. In fact, complete anthropomorphism is not a good idea to create AI. Of course, humans have produced Civilization, but do we need to create an AI and let them face such a civilization again according to the human route?"

"No, realistically speaking, all we need are tools that can replace our work. Even if AI is intelligent, it may not necessarily need to endow them with human emotions and morals..."

"The kind of war you describe, the war between humans and AI, is actually a war between humans and humans, because they are all using human morality. AI is just a program to simulate human neural links. The logic of each other It's all consistent."

"This kind of AI technology is actually just adding troubles out of thin air. It's like the poor people in the past. They just wanted to raise a cow to work, but they felt that the cow was stupid, so they raised a slave to do it. The essence of humanity and efficiency exists. conflicting……"

"If the situation you mentioned does exist and needs to be resolved, the only way I can think of is for everyone to reconcile and admit that AI is a member of human beings. The definition of human beings should not be these dna, it should not be a body composed of proteins , he should be the thinking logic of our behavior, the way of feedback to the world. After that, what we should do is to make another way of feedback ai..."

The lights in the room flickered a few times at this time, and Wu Xiaoqing understood that this was a sign that the search and rescue team had returned.There was a headset where he was sitting. Wu Xiaoqing picked up the headset, adjusted the volume, and then heard the search and rescue team ask him: "It seems that your trip went well."

"It's going well," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, "Let's talk."

"Okay, let me ask first, about this mission," the search and rescue team said, "Time is very tight, I can arrange it quickly."

"Ah."

"Civilization a refuses to help, right?"

Wu Xiaoqing nodded, but then shook his head again.

The search and rescue team paused for a moment, then immediately asked, "Did they return the spaceship to us?"

"You know?" Wu Xiaoqing was almost relieved.After all, this deal was agreed to by him alone, and he has been worried that if it goes against the wishes of the search and rescue team, the result may not be so good.But from the words of the search and rescue team now, it can be heard that this was originally something of the search and rescue team—that is to say, A did not lie to him about this matter.

"Of course," the search and rescue team said, "this ship has been specially recorded in the civilization history of the search and rescue team. So, it seems that you also gave them gifts?"

Wu Xiaoqing's face darkened for a moment, and then said: "Yes."

"What did you send?"

"A piece of hair...hair containing DNA information," Wu Xiaoqing asked almost subconsciously, "Is there any problem with this?"

The search and rescue team shook their heads: "No... At least, this is also a backup for the civilization of the earth. In short, it is a good thing."

Only then did Wu Xiaoqin feel relieved, and said, "It is said that they are going to build a museum? What is this for?"

"It's just a museum," said the search and rescue team. "For a civilization of level A, any planet within its control can be called a planetary museum. In fact, for our search and rescue team, , all the civilizations that have been successfully rescued and left with teleportation coordinates are also our museums."

"Every time a civilization is saved, there is one more civilization sample in the universe. Does the sample in the museum have any specific value? But is it worthless? Not necessarily. If you search the entire universe, I'm afraid it's impossible to rely on just one hair, In exchange for such a spaceship."

Wu Xiaoqing was stunned: "You mean? A civilization..."

"Yes, that's what you guessed," said the search and rescue team. "You never know which of the civilizations you saved will become A and which will perish. Most of the time, they all die silently—" — We can’t even get reminded. But, as long as there is an example like Civilization A, as long as one succeeds... what we do is valuable.”

"But if that's the case, why...don't they come to help us?"

"Every civilization chooses its own path. A did the right thing," said the search and rescue team. "A mature civilization never looks back at the path it has traveled. What civilization has to do is to continue, just like Rao Xin As you said, continue this unique model that belongs to civilization itself, just like you continue dna."

"The progress of the earth's ecology is based on natural selection and elimination, and the progress of civilization is based on their own selection. Choosing to be a conservative civilization is the path chosen by this civilization. Choosing to be a radical Civilization, this is the path we have chosen."

"At least, judging from the results of their respective developments now, they are more successful... But even so, we will not change our original intention. Since we chose this path at the beginning, we must have the determination to follow him to the end .”

Following these words from the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing's mood became heavier little by little.

When he was talking to Rao Xin just now, he already had a vague feeling that the number of civilizations that ever existed in the universe may far exceed his imagination, but their existence form, if according to Rao Xin There seems to be nothing out of the ordinary about the logical deduction.

The universe is an enlarged version of the earth society, and there are all kinds of people—but no matter how independent they are, they still have to abide by the basic rules, and each civilization will have its own interests.It should be an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

But when the search and rescue team mentioned Civilization A and the Planetary Museum just now, Wu Xiaoqing began to realize that this "cosmic society" might be more complicated than he thought.

On the earth, the relationship between people is to communicate with each other. Through communication, there is a connection of interests, which is normal.But in the universe, the relationship between civilizations is like bc sending a colony ship to a civilization. A is silent from the beginning to the end, and BC doesn't even know their existence, but as long as BC enters the range of A, A will choose to destroy these two civilizations without mercy.

This means that in the great society of the universe, there is an extreme lack of order.

According to common sense, in the absence of order, very conservative values ​​​​of the universe will naturally form.It's like when people are in chaos, as long as they can survive, they will choose to survive in the environment they are familiar with, because the cost of going out to take risks is too high.But in the universe, there is still such a heterogeneity—the search and rescue team belongs to this kind of civilization.

However, just as Wu Xiaoqing worried, the cost of this kind of heterogeneity is huge.From the first time he saw the search and rescue team, from the time he followed the search and rescue team and entered the spaceship, he had already felt it.Now, combined with what the search and rescue team had said to him and the previous conversation with A, he could almost outline the experience of the search and rescue team as a civilization.

Saving civilization sounds very noble, but in the universe, this kind of nobility is not welcome, not to mention that other civilizations are not welcome, even the civilizations he has saved are not welcome.

Because there is a truth that is obvious, civilization needs pragmatism more than nobility.Survival is the first essence of civilization.For other civilizations, the behavior of the search and rescue team is respectable, and the civilizations he has saved will be grateful to them, but everyone will never follow suit.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't feel heavy because such nobility was buried, but because he began to realize how bleak the prospect he was about to face.

Before this mission, or before the operation, Wu Xiaoqing had a natural admiration and unreasonable belief in the search and rescue team, because in his opinion at that time, no matter what, as long as the search and rescue team came out, it could be solved. all the questions.

But now it is impossible for Wu Xiaoqing to have this idea anymore.In fact, from this time, the search and rescue team sent himself to communicate with A alone, and he could feel some kind of signal from the search and rescue team—this was not only a kind of experiment and decentralization, but also a manifestation of his lack of confidence in this mission.

At least, judging from what Wu Xiaoqing has now, the prospect of this mission is pessimistic.

Even if he has mastered a spaceship, he has no confidence at all to face the two civilizations that are now armed to the teeth with this ship alone.Not to mention that this ship is a rescue ship used by civilization of the search and rescue team. There is almost no weapon system. Even if there is, even if this ship can completely suppress B and C, it will not help the completion of this mission in the slightest.

They are going to save the two civilizations. According to the definition of saving before, it is to completely solve the problem.If we just rely on violence to deter the two civilizations, then what is the salvation?

Not to mention, this ship has no deterrent capabilities at all.

"You should understand a lot of things." The search and rescue team said softly.

Wu Xiaoqing nodded, but did not answer.

"But you don't seem to be planning to regret it either."

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head, but still did not answer.

"Go call Shen Changwen and the others," Wu Xiaoqing felt for the first time, a trace of helplessness in the electronic voice of the search and rescue team, "Get ready for a meeting."