Huayu for engineering students

Chapter 337 New Projects on GIT

At the heart of the original "The Matrix" was a worry about artificial intelligence, machines controlling humans, a paragon of reverse thinking.

This kind of thinking is very common in science fiction themes. In fact, so-called science fiction uses reality as the basis of imagination, and builds a new world view through operations such as refraction, reflection, amplification, and reduction.

A particularly typical example is the so-called space opera, which has become particularly popular in the past two years. For example, "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes" in Xiaoli is an expansion of the story of the struggle for hegemony between various countries on Earth to the Milky Way.

But this kind of thinking mode also produces some very strange phenomena, that is, it is easy to cross the entire galaxy to fight for a little bit of useless things.

For example, the story of "Oblivion" played by Tom Cruise is that aliens come to the earth to fight with clones and laser weapons, and the result is to extract something from the ocean.

A super civilization crosses the galaxy and comes to the earth just to grab water. Why don't you find a comet? It's cheap and concentrated.

People's imagination is firmly bound by reality. For this reason, they have to add some religious and philosophical speculations so that the subject can become grander.

And these so-called speculations are what we often call private goods. This part is the biggest gap between Eastern and Western civilizations, and it is also the part that we should be most vigilant about.

What is the core of modern Western civilization?Many people say it's Mr. De and Mr. Sai. Let's not mention Mr. De. That thing itself belongs to the category of social sciences and is private goods.

Mr. Sai is what China should really learn from. But if you look carefully at modern Western governments, do they really think in the way of Mr. Sai?
If so, how come there are so many weird operations? If not, then where is Mr. Sai?
Tools, assistance, providing the basis for a prosperous life, that's about it.

But in terms of social operation and even ideological and cultural aspects, the core of the West has always been religion. No matter what kind of religion it is, it will always be this in the end.

The essence of fatalism is the exclusive theory of vested interests, and religion puts a divine cloak on all of this.

China also pays attention to blood and birth, but given that China’s history is so long, anyone with a surname can be traced back to the ancient times of China.

Everyone has divine blood, which is equivalent to the effect that no one has divine blood.

You said that you are a blue-blooded nobleman. If you count, there are only a few hundred years of written records, which is probably what it was like in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Including various oral legends, the history of more than 1000 years sounds very long, but it was during the Tang and Song Dynasties. At that time, the capital of China already had millions of people, and society had evolved to a civil servant constitution.

Therefore, never talk about bloodline with Chinese people. If you really follow the Western way of talking about bloodline, Chinese people are all descendants of gods.

Therefore, Wang Xu’s idea is to use the reverse thinking in The Matrix, the artificial intelligence crisis, and the thinking of the brain in the vat as a basis to write a story of human resistance in the true sense.

Instead, like in The Matrix, artificial intelligence has always been leading everyone's decisions.

The engineer at the beginning was simply a god-like being. He single-handedly conquered the whole world and wiped out all possible resistance and system flaws.

He is simply an omniscient God. You see, this is actually a science fiction version in which humans rebel against God, but ultimately cannot resist and choose to accept God's gift.

But this story was obviously not that easy to make up, and Wang Xu was a bit unskilled in doing it himself, so Wang Xu thought of a fancy job.

In the history of online literature, there was once a novel that was very characteristic of the times. Its name is "Lingao Qiming". This novel is not so much a novel as a time-travel deduction generated by brainstorming.

The birth of this novel is like this. First, an author proposed an idea on an online forum. A passenger ship traveled to the Ming Dynasty with a shipload of guests and some supplies, and the location was in Lingao County, HAN Province.

Then there were very in-depth discussions on the forum about every possible technology in this story, and even detailed deductions for a large number of people on the ship with different personalities and backgrounds.

In the end, a novel was formed that is called a time travel instruction manual by later generations. Although this book is not top-notch, especially because the story is average, the detailed discussion in it can be regarded as a classic.

Wang Xu planned to do it this time, and he would do it as he said. After sending a few drunk brothers back to the dormitory, he ran back to his office in a hurry.

Turn on the computer, the COS graphical interface unfolds smoothly, open the text editor, and write.

"Basic settings:

Science fantasy, carbon-based humans, there are no superhuman beings, there are no powers and characters in non-scientific systems.

Artificial intelligence may give birth to intelligence and self-awareness. Spirituality is a scientific category that cannot yet be explained and is listed as an objective fact.

Background settings:

One year in the future, an asteroid will impact and destroy the original ecology of the earth. The atmosphere will be covered by thick smoke clouds, the temperature will rise, and the glaciers will melt.

A large number of human beings have lost their lives, and they have to rely on artificial intelligence to develop a large number of automated industrial robots to gain the possibility of survival.

But in the end, artificial intelligence gave birth to self-awareness and enslaved the vast majority of humans as computing units of biological computers.

Using powerful computing power, the world from 2000 to 2020 is simulated in the brains of these enslaved humans.

And all these enslaved humans think that they are still living in 20XX, leading a good or bad daily life.

Only 10% of the human brain will be used by ourselves, and the remaining 90% will become the computing power of super artificial intelligence computers. Super artificial intelligence therefore enslaves billions of humans to provide them with powerful computing power.

The lifespan of these humans is very short. They can only live briefly in the period from 2000 to 2020. They are also the womb for the next generation to give birth to and the nutrients for the next generation.

All the extra nutrients are synthesized, and they sleep in coffin-like nutrient chambers for a short instrumental life.

The computer uses the recorded events from 2000 to 2020 to provide each tool person with an identity, allowing them to live in the virtual world.

The name of this artificial intelligence and the huge system it established is called "The Matrix", and there are still some places on the earth that are struggling to resist. My story begins in Xi'an, the ancient capital of China. "

"The above is the background of a story I conceived. I will serialize my story here, and everyone is welcome to discuss the background of this story.

Background settings can be expanded,

If you find something that is completely illogical, you can make changes and indicate the reasons for the changes.

You are welcome to upload your settings here, including text, pictures, [-]D models, etc., anything that can be used to describe you.

This novel will be serialized here and reprinted in the literature section of "Shuimu BBS". You are welcome to read and discuss it. "After writing this, Wang Xu also found acrylic paints and brushes and paper, quickly hand-drawn a dozen various concept drawings, scanned them and uploaded them to GIT.

Then, I went to "Shuimu BBS" and wrote Chapter 1 of "The Matrix", which is [-] words.

(As we all know, four thousand words a day is the limit of human beings)

At the beginning, the storyline was roughly the same as that of "The Matrix" in its previous life.

They are all about the male protagonist Zhou Feng, who is a programmer and always feels that the world is not real, so he uses his hacker knowledge to constantly search for the truth on the Internet.

Until he discovered a deeply hidden host called "The Matrix". When he tried to invade the host, his laptop was hacked, reminding him to follow the little white rabbit.

Then of course the heroine Choi Young appears, and Chapter 1 ends.

Well, this is what Wang Xu did. After that, he maintained the speed of updating every day, slowly but firmly updating on GIT and BBS.

There has always been great controversy as to when online novels appeared, but later generations unanimously believe that the originator of Chinese online novels is "First Intimate Contact" by Cai, a ruffian in Wanwan.

This is a very good romance novel that took a few years to come out, and its author is still in middle school.

Maybe it will be written by Wang Xu, but even if it comes out, it won't be the first online novel, and it can't even be said to be the first best-selling online novel.

Because, Wang Xu's "The Matrix" became popular in less than half a month.

Wang Xu put a lot of imagination (actually memories) about life in the 21st century into it.

A large number of side plots have been added, and several secondary characters have even been added for this purpose. Therefore, although it has been more than ten chapters, the real main story has only just progressed to the time period when Wang Xu returned to the matrix for training.

Since the story takes place in China, of course most of the main characters are Chinese, but there are also Europeans, Americans, Chinese, and Russians who come to study and work.

In short, Wang Xu tried his best to show people what China is like in the 21st century.

At the beginning, people learned about this brand-new project from GIT.

Wang Xu is the founder of GIT and the founder of many famous projects, such as the COS operating system that is now popular on campuses around the world.

Since signing an agreement to establish mirror stations at Stanford and MIT on the east and west coasts of the United States, GIT has gradually become an open source center around the world.

Although many universities in China also use GIT to build some of their own open source sites, GIT, the core site, has the most projects, the most complete varieties, the fastest updates, and the most contributors.

In the early 90s, the Internet had not yet become the mainstream of the world. The place with the largest number of people surfing the Internet in the world was on university campuses. As we all know, college students like to worship the strong.

Therefore, Wang Xu’s Internet name XW spread all over the world. On GIT, almost no one knows about him. On the Internet, especially on GIT, he is a god-like existence. Followers There are countless people.

Randomly, I don’t know how many people have subscribed to XW’s updates. When they learned that he had established a brand new project on GIT, many people could say that they clicked on it immediately.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, the new project actually has a science fiction background and is then left to be perfected by everyone. This is the first time such an unreliable project has appeared on GIT.

At this time, GIT resources are still quite limited. That is to say, Wang Xu has great authority and can open new projects so casually. Most people's projects must be reviewed by the GIT management committee.

As the founder of GIT and the developer of the GIT program, Wang Xu has always enjoyed a privilege here, that is, he can start a new project directly without review.

In the past, the projects he started were very serious, such as network tools, development environments, even application servers, network databases, in short, all kinds of high-end, high-tech.

This time, I created such a game-like project as a joke, which is really shocking, but also very interesting.

"It's in Chinese, can someone translate it? The pictures are very attractive."

"Translated, English version, link."

"French version uploaded, link."

"Japanese..."

"German……"

……

GIT itself comes with a text version forum, which is generally used to submit various bugs and suggestions. Any project will automatically have a section on this forum.

Since being connected to the international Internet, this forum has been developing into a forum of all nations, with all kinds of messy languages ​​mixed together.

There is no AI automatic translation at the moment, so if others can’t understand the text you post, no one will pay attention to it. Therefore, the most posts here are in English and Chinese.

There are many posts in Chinese because most of the current project contributors are Chinese and naturally use Chinese habitually.

Users from other countries mostly use English. For projects that are mainly contributed by Chinese people, it is often difficult to get a response immediately if they submit defects or suggestions in English.

Therefore, there are still many bilingual enthusiasts who help translate into Chinese, and then contributors will give answers or arrange development.

Of course, if it is a project with many contributors from other countries, then English will become mainstream. For example, Linux is now a project under GIT.

Wang Xu's new projects and novels were quickly translated into various texts by enthusiastic netizens, and then slowly began to ferment.

Wang Xu's own literary skills are very good, and his description of the 21st century is almost lifelike. The various beautiful lives of the characters in the matrix are displayed in front of netizens in the 90s along with the text.

Coupled with the cruel contrast between a very cool-sounding virtual world and the real world, the confrontation and war between people in the two worlds and artificial intelligence, people's struggles when faced with choices, etc., are all hot topics of discussion on BBS.

Of course, since the background of the story is China, the discussion here is particularly intense.

(End of this chapter)