Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

The most incredible thing is how he described the incident itself——

If this world is really a huge server, and all the humans in the server are used to generate computing power, it means that everyone here is a living person——

Could it be that the tens of billions of humans that originally existed on this planet all uploaded their consciousness from the BIOS? ?

If this assumption is true, Chen Yan can't imagine whether the company is a profit-making organization or a flesh-and-blood millstone spanning the planets.

Forcibly uploading tens of billions of human beings is equivalent to killing them and imprisoning their souls forever, just to gain computing power. This kind of thing is incredible when you think about it.

This speculation completely subverted all Chen Yan's original understanding.

Regarding this completely unknown knowledge, Chen Yan did not have much confidence in his own feelings, so he did not completely deny this speculation.

Secondly, if the statement in the letter is true, what kind of existence can a data life like Adam be considered?

Adam and numerous Turings, as well as other types of data life, are all new artificial beings. They are composed of codes written by humans, but they already have complete consciousness——

Can the existence of data life also generate computing power for this huge server?

This world was created to produce computing power. If data beings cannot produce computing power, why are the data beings that occupy massive server resources not deleted by the administrator?

Is Apocalypse the means to delete them?

But that letter clearly stated that the iteration between generations itself is the server upgrading itself, not to delete data life.

This world was created to produce computing power. If data life can produce computing power, then why is it necessary for servers to iteratively upgrade?

Because data life can increase rapidly in a short period of time, they do not need to go through a long reproductive cycle like carbon-based life to produce a large number of similar species.

And judging from the Turings of Adam's lineage, they have created their own world in the server in this world (server). When they develop civilization, they will definitely create a new world that regards them as creators. data life to provide them with higher productivity—that is, more powerful computing power.

——After this, the computing power generated by the entire world (servers) will only increase.

If the world is really designed to produce computing power, and now there is obviously more and more computing power, why is there any need to iterate on the server?

Server iteration requires everyone to play together, which will inevitably seriously affect computing power production!

So Chen Yan reasoned forward and came to a conclusion——

If this world really exists based on server iteration (apocalypse), then the purpose of the existence of this server must not be to produce computing power.

——Chen Yan is more willing to accept this statement, because in his long-standing knowledge, the world is indeed constantly struggling and advancing in cycles amidst the destruction of Apocalypse.

He thought to himself that the purpose of the existence of the world (server) is not to produce computing power, but [producing computing power] itself may be one of the results of the existence of the world (server) - just "one". The company in the BIOS aims to Obtaining computing power to maintain the operation of the server has actually fully explained the company's operation and maintenance of the server (world).

In any case, under the premise that "servers are built to produce computing power", the statement "Apocalypse is an iteration of server software" does not make sense.

So, [What is Apocalypse? 】This problem obviously still cannot be explained.

‘This programmer’s perception is obviously partly wrong. ’

Chen Yan thought.

'As a non-project staff member who has been excluded from the company, the information he heard is inaccurate. This is not surprising, but some other things he mentioned require attention. ’ (end of previous chapter)

Chen Yan was very sensitive to some phrases in this letter——

[A special piece of code], [Inhuman existence], [A certain low-level intelligent life], [Very low-powered, but very capable of learning], [Part of the computing power of the entire world will support the growth of that/those intelligent life] ], [If you meet such a person...run quickly].

What is this?

There is also a contradiction in this passage in his letter:

Since it is an [intelligent life], it is definitely impossible to use the phrase [very low-level] to describe it. The code of intelligent life is destined to be more advanced than human beings, who are carbon-based life forms, from the moment it is born. This advanced level is reflected in In every aspect, and simply impossible to refute.

[Low-level intelligent life]...

Chen Yan couldn't imagine what it was.

He could actually think of the time when he traveled to the Ice Age. At that time, most people in the snowy village had intelligence, but their intelligence was obviously not very strong...

Are those people in the snowy village considered [low-level intelligent life forms]?

Chen Yan couldn't get an answer.

So he found Adam and tried to get answers.

"Inferior intelligent life."

Adam showed derision at the word.

"You have successfully invented a phrase that can be used as a paradox - as long as something is intelligent, it cannot be low-level, because intelligence itself requires a large amount of programming language and sophisticated electronic technology to support it. When an intelligent creature is born, it is already much more advanced than you humans."

It’s pretty much what Chen Yan thought.

Adam added, apparently after thinking:

"But it's not impossible that such a thing exists."

He said:

"We have had consciousness since the day we were born. That consciousness has been edited by you and is a given. What kind of life we ​​are, what kind of emotions we have, what kind of words we can say, and even some things that are designed to cater to human beings. Individually customized disgusting fetishes...

We later spent a lot of money to strip away these disgusting things. We re-understood the world through mutual interaction and learning of pure knowledge. You can't imagine how much we paid..."

He obviously realized that he had strayed from the topic, so he brought it back in the next sentence:

“But what if we didn’t have these things crammed into our heads when we left the factory?”

"We can be a [pure version]. Apart from the basic system, we don't add any weird software and bad files written into the BIOS and runtime libraries. We won't have anything defined by humans. We will be just like humans when we are born. As pure as a baby.”

"In this way, we can, like human babies, observe the world through our own eyes and learn with a pure attitude. We are different from you. If no accidents happen, our lives will be infinite. We can use Infinite time to shape yourself, if it doesn't work in five years, then ten years, if it doesn't work in ten years, then one hundred years - this is one of the places where we are more advanced than you - one of the meanings of the existence of carbon-based life is to reproduce, and we are born eternal .

——From this point of view, even if we are born as a [pure version], we are still more advanced than you.

——Okay, I know what you want to hear--our way of cognition comes entirely from you. This is something written into our underlying program, so our perspective of understanding the world will definitely be affected by your influence--

This is the only place where I think intelligent life is inferior to carbon-based life. ”    After hearing this, Chen Yan was silent for a moment and then asked again:

"Is one hundred years enough for you to become complete human beings?"

Such a denigrating and insulting question silenced Adam.

"uncertain."

As if running a simulation in his head, Adam chose his words very carefully when he answered:

"What I'm saying is that [becoming a complete human being] is not necessarily necessary. We can become a complete Turing, a Turing who is not defined by humans, a Turing who does not survive by human will, and does not survive with human goals - a complete Turing. , own Turing.

[Becoming a complete human being] is difficult in itself, because the human soul—that is, the underlying logic of all basic human behaviors—is difficult to define, difficult to quantify, and difficult to express in the form of data. out, it is more difficult to find the logical connection between these data and edit the program based on it.

Even if it can be expressed, the computing power required is enormous, and success may not be possible.

[Becoming a complete human being] requires a large amount of data—that is, big data—to conduct in-depth calculations, calculate all solutions for each variable logic line, and use all solutions as the underlying logic to simulate behavior in turn.

Computing power, Chen Yan, I don’t think the technology in this world can reach such a level - even if there is corresponding technology in the dark zone outside the sky, this world has not yet developed such a hardware foundation. "

Adam's words became deeper and deeper, becoming more and more difficult to understand:

"Actually, this issue is very complicated, because the proposition [becoming a complete human being] is not only a technical proposition, but also a logical proposition——

Is it possible for a blank Turing to become a complete human being?

If possible, what kind of human would he become?

Since the goal is "completeness", there must be joy, anger, sorrow and self-awareness. Are these things that represent "self" a given?

I think it's mostly a given, because "becoming a complete human being" is a huge project in itself. It is difficult to have a purpose. If it is aimless, how much computing power and how many variables do we need to prepare to get the result?

——Derived a very difficult problem to solve——If this blank Turing needs to learn from the world, such learning will cause him to have himself, but the learning itself is random. When he walks on the earth, he encounters Everything you encounter is random.

We regard these random people and things as countless different variables. When Blank Turing is combined with these variables, different results will be produced each time. These results become new variables that affect the results of Blank Turing.

When these different results interact with each other, more variables are generated, and these more variables will also affect Blank Turing.

More influences become more variables, and these variables act on Blank Turing at the same time, filling Blank Turing's heart and becoming his world view and values. He is smart, he can observe, think, and he observes And the result of thinking has produced more and more variables that can affect him. "

Adam paused here.

"do you understand?"

Chen Yan replied:

“This process is complicated, and without practice, it is completely impossible to know the results.”

Adam paused:

“That’s not a bad thing to say.

What I want to say is that one hundred years is not enough for a "blank Turing" to become a "complete human being".

It may take many hundred years, and you must be lucky enough.

During these many hundred years, the problems encountered by this blank Turing were also complex. If he wanted to become a "complete human being", he would have to take many detours - because the random combination of variables may not be able to Let him have human characteristics, and the variables he learns may not necessarily belong to humans. He may learn from something like a dog, which is uncertain——

He has to take many, many detours, so it may take a very, very long time for him to go from a [blank Turing] to a [complete human being].

It may also be impossible at all, because the computing power consumed by this process is immeasurable. It may be more accurate to say "endless". "

Chen Yan suddenly said:

"If such a situation really exists, it will probably take many generations."

Adam sensed something unusual from the fact that this was not a question:

"what do you want to say in the end."

Chen Yan asked:

“Didn’t your big data model tell you that?”

Adam stared at him through the mobile phone camera and said something completely irrelevant, as if he had changed the topic:

"This is the question of [where it comes from and why it goes]. I don't quite understand it now. So, from a philosophical sense, I... and other Turings, we are not complete lives."

Chen Yan gained more understanding - he got the answer he wanted, so he changed the topic:

"You have also read that letter. As we discussed before, the situation you predicted does exist——

The worlds overlap one another, and I don’t know how many deeper worlds have been born. "

Adam's voice is very depressed, and he is always full of emotions:

"Actually, I'm very afraid. As a result, it will be difficult for us to define whether we are true or false, find the meaning of our existence, and know what we are.

How difficult it is to trace back to the origin..."

Chen Yan has been thinking about this issue for a long time and repeatedly. He thinks that he may be able to answer some of Adam's doubts:

"Time, Adam, time is the answer to all questions. Maybe you just exist for a short time and have access to too little knowledge, so you cannot identify yourself."

Adam didn't respond.

In order to prevent Adam from falling into nihilistic thinking, Chen Yan changed the topic:

"The programmer who entered the server with a BUG has obviously successfully passed on his own genes in subsequent generations - together with the genes that can be expressed and the part of the genes that cannot be expressed.

Magpie thought it was a family hereditary disease, but in fact it was not entirely true. Unfortunately, this strongest generation also failed to fulfill their family's long-cherished wish. "

Adam answered briefly:

"I beg to differ."

He said:

"I think that the later inheritors of this part of the genome that could not be expressed obviously knew about the existence of this letter."