Planetary Museum

Yes, there is no other choice.

The scene before him, combined with the information sent by Wu Qing, probably confirmed Yevgeny's guess.

Both Wu Qing and Shen Wen have noticed that in the game Fengyun of the Solar System, if the player chooses the side of intelligence and body, the overall strategy is simple and clear.

As long as you continue to manufacture spaceships, wait until you have accumulated a sufficient number, press them up to fight, and rely on the planets that have been shot down to complete the next cycle.

For the federation, it is much more complicated.

According to the definition of people on earth, the federation is first of all a parliamentary country, and the country needs the consent of the parliament to declare war. To get the parliament to agree to declare war on the AI, it first needs to convince the parliament that the AI ​​is a threat to human beings, and then let the Everyone is willing to pay the price to resist.

Neither of these two points is easy to do.

Let me talk about the first point first, let some people believe that AI has the ability to threaten.

This sounds a bit absurd. There have been several serious battles between AI and the Federation, but within the entire Federation, there still seem to be quite a few people who believe that the current war situation is the product of the government's deliberate leadership.

This has a lot to do with the game Solar System.

In the solar system, many players discovered a tricky strategy when they played the civilization of the Federation.In the setting of the game, if the consul wants to get the right to declare war, he must first let ordinary people realize the horror of AI and the crisis of civilization is imminent.

But according to ai's thinking, before using up all the mass of a planet, the sooner you start a war, the more unfavorable it will be for you.

In the thousands of years before the AI ​​rebellion, AI technology has always been the skeleton of the entire civilization. It can be said that almost the current status of the entire federal civilization has been developed based on AI technology.

Whether it is planetary colonization or game development, a lot of AI technology has been applied to it. Just what Yevgeny sees now, this kind of cellular bionics industrial system can be seen at a glance that it is developed on the basis of AI technology. It's up - with the visual system of the Federation people, it can even be said that with the visual system of any carbon-based organisms produced by natural evolution, it is impossible to adapt to this kind of omnidirectional and three-dimensional visual processing.

Even though ai now occupies two of the 15 planets in the solar system, in the public opinion of the entire federation, ai is still regarded as a sub-system civilization cultivated by the federation, and its status is a bit like a pet or even a relative - before ai technology has not yet When it was banned, a considerable part of AI already had this emotion substitution function.

The Federation is like an ordinary hunter in a primitive society, while AI can be seen as a tiger that hasn't grown up yet.Young tigers are certainly no match for humans, not only are they not rivals, they may look quite cute.But reasonable people know that when this tiger grows up to an adult, if it is a "fair" hand-to-hand fight, the human is no match for the opponent anyway.

This is almost a kind of paradox - when the tiger was young, the federal people were reluctant to fight, or they were reluctant to fight, but when the tiger grew up, the federal people were unable to fight.

In Solar System, players have come up with a simple way to break this paradox—deliberate failure.

When the ai is not capable, take the initiative to declare war with the ai, but secretly deliberately create a failure - and then let everyone see clearly that the ai is indeed dangerous!

It's as if a person took the initiative to make the little tiger unhappy, and then let him scratch a few marks on his body, or simply bite some blood, so that the reason for killing the tiger became quite sufficient.

Wind and Cloud of the Solar System is a game that was released very early, before humans and AI officially declared war.But the irony is that the result that humans finally showed on the battlefield-it just fits the deliberate defeat tactics played by many players.

As a result, the government has been doubted by quite a few people. These people are still concluding that all the current failures of the Federation are man-made. The worse the government fails, the more fake they think the government is acting.

In the game, the failures made by the players are often the failures of the weaker ones who are at odds with each other, but in reality, the few decisive battles are all huge defeats of the government.

For example, the time when the government army crashed into the speed bump and failed, it felt like a person driving without stepping on the brakes on purpose and then bumped into it...

Players in the game can make all federal citizens feel a real sense of crisis through deliberate defeat in the early stage, which can ensure that they will get a lot of nominal support in the early stage, and get more resources in the military -- the natural probability of winning is also Just bigger.

Many federal people are now suspecting that maybe the purpose of the consul's actions now is to paralyze them.

The second point is even more difficult.

For a civilization to support war, it means that a large amount of resources on the entire planet must move towards war. What are resources?It is a large amount of quality that could have been used for game storage, a large amount of energy that can be used for game servers to run, and even the freedom for everyone to play games.

The first two are fine, especially the third one...

In such an unprecedented "prosperous and prosperous age", where countless virtual game worlds alone cannot be experienced, who would be willing to be conscripted as a soldier by the government with a single decree, and then their own destiny is no longer under their own control—they They will be arranged to live in the attack ship and continue to execute orders from the army.It’s fine if the war goes well—but, if it’s really as incompetent as the government is showing in the war… then everyone’s joining the army is almost a dead end.

In this kind of military confrontation, they can't even find and face a real enemy. The same enemy, the same attack ship, they are living people, and the opponent is just an infinite copy of the intelligence body. It's just a program.

According to the statistics of the federal military medical institutions, enlisted soldiers will generally have severe psychological anxiety and fear of death after three months of service, which will fade slightly after half a year, but will appear psychologically numb and indifferent due to the environment of the assault ship itself. , Serving for more than one year will cause autism, and after two years of service, it often takes more than half a year to adapt before returning to normal life.

The above data are all based on the premise of normal service-that is, no participation in war.

For soldiers who have participated in the war, almost every group of soldiers returning from the battlefield will have severe persecution paranoia - the main symptom of the patient is to constantly check the various data and structures of the spacecraft to ensure that it is very normal, No issues at all, and no enemy locks.

Then there is the long-term insomnia-many people dream that they are killed in their dreams-in war, AI uses the feature that people must sleep to carry out long-term fatigue harassment tactics, which is already a routine tactic.

This fear of war has become even more terrifying in the impression of ordinary people as the ex-soldiers exaggerate it. War weariness and war-fear sentiment continue to spread throughout the Federation, and many soldiers even prefer to deliberately commit crimes to avoid conscription. example to.

The federal government also tried to push a bill to amend the law to convert many sentences of imprisonment and deportation into mandatory service.

This attempt, of course, failed swiftly.

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After receiving the news from Yevgeny, the search and rescue team immediately told Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen the news.

After reading all the news, Wu Xiaoqing's first reaction was surprise: "They were not caught?"

"It's too early to make this judgment," the search and rescue team pointed out Yevgeny's opinion. "We can only judge now that your replicas do exist now."

Shen Changwen looked at the part of the telegram that was written by "myself", and couldn't help but nodded and said, "Don't even mention it, it really looks like my handwriting."

Wu Xiaoqing didn't feel that way too much. In his opinion, what Wu Xiaoqing said in the telegram was a bit too bright and righteous: "Is it a bit fake? If we are really arrested, we should think of saving our lives immediately. They actually Are you starting to care about missions? I don't think so."

Shen Changwen glanced at Wu Xiaoqing: "We haven't really experienced this, and no one can say how we will behave in this environment... But I am more inclined to agree with Yevgeny and the others. I believe their telegrams should be sincere. of."

Then there is only the second question: "Do you think they know that they may be monitored? Or, do they realize that all their actions may be induced?"

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head straightforwardly: "If it's Shen Changwen and Xu Yan... probably, because they haven't seen the virtual world. But I... I don't think I don't know my current situation."

Wu Xiaoqing had dealt with Civilization A before, and since that time, Wu Xiaoqing has already established a line of defense psychologically.

He still remembers some of his experience on the Second Earth. When he was there, he was already able to distinguish what is virtual and what is reality.

Theoretically speaking, his clone should also have the same judgment as himself.

From this point of view alone, Wu Xiaoqing felt that the information was credible.

"I'm also inclined to your analysis," the search and rescue team added. "There is another piece of evidence that can indirectly prove the credibility of their words."

"what?"

"Intellect."

Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing immediately understood the meaning of the search and rescue team—yes, as soon as their information arrived, Zhiti took Yevgeny to watch the preparations for the war.why is that?

Was it just a coincidence in timing?

It's too weird to say it's a coincidence.

Apparently, the Intelligences also believe that, so far, the Federation has not obtained their replicas.In other words, the fleet of the entire Federation is still the same as before, and it is a spaceship controlled by real Federation people.

Facing such a federal army, Zhiti obviously still has a good chance of winning.

"He is now telling us that there may be another purpose," the search and rescue team added, "Our consciousness copy is still in the hands of the Federation, and to a large extent, they are against the Federation. It means that we are against the Federation. At least now, he believes that we will not intervene rashly, at least we will not help the Federation to deal with him."

Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen glanced at each other, Wu Xiaoqing let out a long sigh: "He's quite shrewd."

Shen Changwen also said: "Now it is really difficult for us to make up our minds to intervene... If we help the Federation, it is tantamount to touching the Federation's cold ass with our hot face..."

Wu Xiaoqing twitched the corner of his mouth: "It's not a matter of attitude, the key is that the attitude of Chi Chi now is already implying us-they don't mind cooperating with us in certain aspects."

Shen Changwen immediately understood: "You mean... he let Yevgeny see the army, implying that he can help us get back our clones?"

"It doesn't have to be taking back... Destroying is also fine," Wu Xiaoqing said, "But, as long as we do this, it means that He Zhiti has become a de facto ally."

The search and rescue team immediately agreed to Wu Xiaoqing's analysis.

"This sb federation," Shen Changwen felt a little unable to control his emotions when he saw the message sent by the other himself on the computer, "We came here to try to persuade a fight, but now we are forced to beat him... What a shame!"