Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"All the common dishes are free, most of the common clothes are free, a temporary residence of 120 square meters is provided, and you can apply for a larger one if you don't mind the trouble of cleaning up, the transportation in the city is free, and there is a 500% discount for the freight practitioners of 75 cat coins for one trip of Tiandi transportation ..." He raised his head, "I've spent a total of 300 cat coins in the past two months, and I've given them all the free quota!"

"That's right, didn't I tell you, the basic security is provided here, is it enough to live frugally and rely on the free quota?" The old crew who had just returned from another cat alliance city yawned, "Why do you look so surprised? It's as if I haven't told you."

"Is this called basic guarantee?"

He turned his head and pointed to the recommended dishes on the wall display: "Roast duck, pork ribs, stewed beef brisket, these are also called basic meals? So what else do you have to pay for here?"

"Of course there is. If you want to eat authentic Buddha jumping wall, you must pay for it." The old crewman shrugged indifferently, "If you want to eat, I will take you to try it at night. I happen to know an authentic human restaurant. The price It's a bit pricey, but it tastes really good."

"Rich?"

"It depends on what you want. There are more than a dozen cat coins for the cheap ones, thirty or forty coins for the expensive ones, and the most expensive one is 98." The old crew member is very familiar, "Really, I strongly recommend you to eat the one with 30 coins , the taste is almost exactly the same as the one in China that costs about [-] yuan, if you don’t take advantage of the bargain here, it won’t be so cheap when you go back.”

"..."

The young crew member pondered for a moment, looked at the remaining free quota of 960 this month under his name, and the deposit of 20000 cat coins in his account, and suddenly felt that he who was worried about the difficult conditions here before was like a...

"Let me ask a question, Lao Li, what is the average income of a Maomeng member?"

"The monthly basic free quota for Cat League citizens is [-], and the per capita monthly income is about [-]."

"Are their basic security standards the same as ours?"

"No, their living security is two levels higher than ours. I don't know the details, but I heard that many higher-end ingredients are also covered."

As a foodie, that's all he knows.

"However, although our power is one-fourth of that of the Cat League, our total population is only one-fifth of that of the Cat League, and the proportion of our military is also much lower. Logically speaking, although the total productivity is definitely not as good as it is, the per capita Productivity should be even higher."

"But why, their benefits can be so high?"

The young crew sent out soul torture.

"I really don't know about that." The old crew member spread his hands, "I heard that Chief Mate Liu and the others usually pay more attention to this area. You can ask them when you become familiar with them on the ship."

"...All right."

He nodded, and decided to put the question aside for the time being. After all, judging from his appearance, Lao Li hadn't thought about this question at all, and it was impossible to get any meaningful answer if he asked him.

However, before he knew it, a seed had quietly taken root in his heart.

Since there is not much difference between their human technology and the Cat League, does that mean that theoretically they can also obtain such high benefits?

Do they... also have a chance to become a powerful country like the Cat League?

The old crew just casually said, "Mate Liu and the others pay more attention to this area", but in the hearts of the young crew, this sentence conveyed a lot of information.

He decided that when he returned to the boat, he would start to ask the other party about his tone.

Hope they can give themselves an answer.

Volume 210 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Controlling Evolution

Just as everyone was preparing for the battle in full swing, an explosive news from the cat league's biological community swept the entire cat league almost overnight, and even all countries that had formal diplomatic relations with them.

In the scientific research journal with the highest status in the scientific community of Cat League, which represents the most cutting-edge and cutting-edge scientific research in the entire academic community, a photo of a single-celled organism that looks very weak is printed on the cover of the journal.

Its subtitle is very short, only four words in total, but the amount of information contained in it is large enough to shock anyone who knows about science.

Its name is - artificial life.

This research is the result published by the "Snaji Institute of Biology", which is the largest and most cutting-edge biological research institute in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has produced a lot of scientific research results.

Although for many people, the most famous achievement of this research institute they know is to design a hair conditioner with the safest, best effect and most popular hair conditioner in the history of cat alliance, but this is not affect its high status in academia.

This time, the scholars of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used a huge space that has never been used before, and explained all the information about this huge scientific progress in great detail. The level of detail is enough for a student who is receiving elementary education to understand this The greatness of scientific progress.

According to the article, the single-celled organism published on the cover is the result of their scientific research this time—this is a very weak single-celled organism, and its genome is even more primitive than that of today's Cat League. The single-celled organism with the shortest genome known is even more primitive and garbage.

For the Cat League, which has been able to carry out risk-free gene editing and targeted modification of the extremely complex structure of the adult human body, it is just a matter of effort to transform such a simple single-celled organism, and it is even a smart point of high school students can independently complete the work of modifying some of their genes.

So, how can it be published in the journal with the highest status in the Cat League and representing the research of the most cutting-edge people in the scientific world?

Quite simply, this is a complete creature designed by biologists—not the kind of gene editing achieved through modification, tailoring, or transplantation.

It's a real design.

The composition of each gene fragment is purely artificially synthesized by cats from the very basics without using any existing or former biological fragments. Every function of it, It was all built up bit by bit by them from the lowest fragments.

If you want an analogy, the gene editing in the past is that they learned the computer programming language, and they can skillfully combine codes to achieve the functions they want. In some cases, they can also mix different programming languages ​​with each other, and even small Significantly modify the programming language to achieve previously unprecedented effects.

In this field, its pinnacle is the real-time, risk-free gene editing technology for surviving adult individuals—for example, the growth arrest surgery that many cats like to do is a small part of this technology. Applications.

But this time, things are very different.

They are no longer tinkering with the original stage created by the big hand of "nature", but have designed a computer from scratch, and programmed a set of But it's a perfectly clear driver.

It is a creature that does not use any known genome. Except for those very low-level mechanisms such as molecular synthesis, which cannot be different, there is no trace of any existing organisms on its body. .

Everything on it is artificially manufactured, all information it possesses is artificially compiled, and every function, every fragment, and even every molecule of it is artificially constructed.

A pure artificial life.

This means, from this moment on.Even if Hong is now thrown to a planet without any organisms and gene fragments, and all data related to the genome of known organisms in the database is deleted.

But as long as she masters such a set of tools, she can also assemble a new creature from scratch at the molecular level—even if it's just a simple single-celled creature, it's still a creature.

A completely artificial creature.

A created creature.

Although at the primitive level of this creature, no one would think that it would have any impact on the Cat League. After all, such a simple creature is probably a little more complicated than the earliest wave of single-celled creatures on the planet. , less than a fraction of the level of paramecium.

But from it, biologists are enough to see countless possibilities that were unimaginable before.

Because its birth shows that from today onwards, Cat League can finally create new life independently without being influenced by the natural biological world.

They no longer need to be forced to cling to genes that have evolved naturally.

Their future will be in their own hands.

...

In fact, the shock of this news to countries outside the China League is far greater than what the China League's own people felt.

Even before encountering the first strong artificial intelligence, they understood that a scientific union born of the fusion of mechanical intelligence and organisms and complementing each other's shortcomings must have stronger research capabilities than organisms like theirs.

But in fact, after encountering multiple omnic civilizations one after another, and discovering that they are only extremely productive, but the technology is half-assed or even often insufficient, everyone unknowingly relaxes, and subconsciously feels that machine intelligence is not as good as them As strong as I imagined, I think their advantages are more reflected in the field of management and coordination, rather than in the field of science.

Especially after the human Belt contract country obtained a crimson, although everyone admits that her management and regulation ability is indeed ridiculously strong, and after the people of this country experienced subconscious resistance to strange things at the beginning, Gradually, they all began to smell really good, and a large number of thoughts supporting the planned economic policy of strong artificial intelligence were born.

However, there is no obvious difference between them and humans in the field of scientific research, and they only have a small advantage in some fields. To the level similar to that of the head scientist of the organism, but in the truly cutting-edge research that can most promote the progress of the field, the organism will still not fall into a disadvantage.

Although Maomeng's scientific research ability is very strong, and its speed of catching up with backward fields is astonishing, but under the preconceived notion, they still subconsciously believe that this is just the buff of overall planning, and they have the advantage of crossing the river by feeling the stones That's all.

You see, the technology of Locke and Chien is much stronger than that of the Cat League, and the combat power of the warships of the same tonnage is about 30% higher than that of the Cat League's own ships. They are all organism-led + weak AI-assisted structures , Doesn't this prove that although the scientific research of strong artificial intelligence is strong, the gap is not too big?

This cannot be blamed on them. After all, under the barrier of distance, their main information channel is from the embassy in the Cat League, and at most some migrant workers and cargo ship crews are added. Although there are scientists, they have not He could truly be called a top scientist, not to mention having a keen sense of smell under the top premise.

In the absence of information, people just subconsciously ignore a problem——

Whether it's Jeffrey or Catus, they were just an engineering technology equivalent to the middle of the 22nd century, and their theoretical science was equivalent to the early 21st century. civilization.

And now, it is the middle of the 24th century.

Without the help of any external technology, can such a huge gap be crossed so quickly, can it really be explained by "crossing the river by feeling the stones" and "a small advantage in overall planning"?

In this way, without warning in all countries, a study that shocked the world was published.

It wasn't until they heard such a shocking research result that they looked back and looked at the precision of their own efforts in gene editing technology that they finally realized such a thing.

At least in terms of biological technology, the Cat League has a modern difference with all other interstellar civilizations.

Obviously everyone is still using the front-end technology of the first stage of genetic ascension, why did you point out the second stage without saying a word?

That's probably how it feels.

This is not over yet, and before the academic circles of various countries have recovered from this explosive news, the Cat League published an additional article the next day, revealing another new result that was equally shocking.

virtual cells.

By building a complete cell in a computer, scientists can predict almost perfectly any response the cell will make, how it calls up gene segments, and how each of its electrical cells responds to a given influence. The signal, every ion exchange, every protein transfer, why it does it, how the data of each action, everything is attributed to a complete cell model.

This is no longer the "virtual cell" that was called a virtual cell in the past. In fact, it is just a computer simulation of the electrophysiological process of living cells, or even a "false virtual" of a simple 3D dissection model. It is a genuine and complete virtual cell.

Even if it is a brand new drug, as long as scientists can know the ingredients of the drug, they can build a virtual drug in the computer, and then release it into the virtual cell, and get everything the cell knows about the drug. response data.

Then, after obtaining the data, the scientists applied the drug to the real cells corresponding to the virtual cells in reality, and then observed their macroscopic responses.

The two fit together almost perfectly.

Through simulations, not only were they able to derive all known reaction parameters, they were even able to discover many previously unknown properties from the data.

More importantly, it is a model of the real bottom layer, a model that is completely visible from top to bottom, and a model that simulates cells with high complexity such as single-celled organisms.

Although humans have successfully roughly simulated a simple cell called "Mycoplasma urethra" as early as the early 21st century, estimated most of the chemical reaction parameters, and also predicted some previously unknown properties, but the fact In fact, the gap between the two simulations is as wide as the difference between a banana and a human being.

Because in this cell, none of the parameters are estimated, or certain values ​​are preset - it is a system that can perfectly reflect reality and almost completely simulate the cell, a system with a high degree of freedom. new technology.

This is a person who can perform actions such as foraging, searching, and even memorizing external stimuli without giving any instructions, but simply simulating them, and "dodging" the next time they encounter them— — Virtual unicellular organisms.

During the whole process, they did not exert any influence.

This is the virtual cell's "self" response.

Not only that, this virtual cell can also produce gene mutations under the influence of the simulated environment, and provide corresponding gene mutation data-if this kind of mutation that has never been seen before is applied to real cells, people will find that , the real cells that produced the mutation behaved in exactly the same way as the simulated cells.

Metabolism, energy flow, material circulation, complex traits, gene mutations, everything can be nearly perfectly reflected on this simulated cell, and even a large number of them have never been observed in reality, but after research. And discover new behaviors that do work.

Instead of calling it a simulated cell, many scholars prefer to call this great progress by another name.

Virtual life.

After mastering the technology of creating a new life from scratch in the real world, Maomeng learned how to build a life that can simulate reality almost perfectly in the virtual computer world at almost the same time.

Although they are nothing more than a single cell, there is still a long, long way to go with the technology they really want to master, which is applied to an extremely complex system—the human body—constructed by at least tens of trillions of cells. It's a long way to go, even hundreds of thousands of years are not uncommon.

But Hong and her scientists have proved that both paths are feasible.

Life is not a divine creation of God, but can be artificially designed.

Life is not unique to nature, but can be simulated by calculation.

They are proving with unprecedented strength that life is by no means a sacred and inviolable creation of God, nor is it born randomly by so-called natural miracles.

They are all things within the reach of intelligent life.

A new era that can be described as earth-shaking in the field of biology and can be called "the century of biology" is just around the corner.

From ancient times to the present, natural evolution can only be described with one simple and crude word: failure.

Now, they will define success themselves.

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PS: Thank you for-aiur boss for the golden treasure chest! ! !

Do you know, the author, after I finished playing the game, I clicked on the item page, and almost thought that I had read it wrong.

Since the day the book was released, this dream of receiving the treasure box without warning has been thought about many times, but I really didn't expect that this would actually happen one day!

Don't talk about it, now I owe 20 changes directly, plus the 5 changes owed for other props and tickets, there are already 25 changes, and I will start to pay back when I have free time at the beginning of next month, and try not to delay too long.

In May, rush!

Volume 210 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Li Miao Wants to Raise a Cat, too

After passing through the initial news fermentation stage, under constant urging from all walks of life, they made a negotiation request with Hong through the embassy, ​​hoping to obtain more data about their achievements.

Although in the scientific community, it is very common for other research institutes to request more data for this kind of research that can be made public.

However, due to the distance, the degree of scientific cooperation between the Cat League and the two civilizations is very limited. In addition, in order to prevent Hong from thinking that they want to get something for nothing, they all proposed that they can pay in exchange for this achievement. Experimental data.

However, Hong said that this is a research that benefits the entire civilized society, and there is no reason to hide it from their partners. Therefore, not only did they generously announce the detailed data of the results, but they even briefly introduced the methods and theories involved in the entire experiment. descriptions to help their scientists better understand their data.

Of course, it is impossible to tell them such important information as the models and tools used in gene design and the corresponding manufacturing methods for free-they have no objection to this, and they have spent so much money and hard work There is no reason to give you all the things that have been studied hard.

After obtaining all the data that can be made public by the Cat League, the two civilizations immediately began to analyze the data, and then they were surprised to find that the Cat League is not just ahead of them in one achievement.

Behind this breakthrough achievement, many of the methods they used were unknown to everyone, and a large number of theories and tools that played an important role in this research were so advanced that they didn't even have to think about it.

There has been a generational gap in technology.

Almost within two weeks after the publication of these two articles by the Cat League, both the neighbors, the three major alliances of the five major human nations, and the distant Locke United Nations and the Locke Mechanics Union have all promulgated their own biotechnology bills. Without hesitation, a huge amount of money is invested in this ancient industry that has been in the doldrums for nearly a hundred years.