Since the explosion of the earth, human beings have been forced to escape into dangerous universes, first to the moon, then to Mars, and then to the planet Nix. Almost every step can be described as adventure...
If it were placed more than a hundred years ago, people would certainly quarrel about such huge opportunities and challenges, but...adventurers would definitely account for the majority! Because people at that time needed to become stronger urgently, needed industry, and needed technology.
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But now that development has reached the level of interstellar civilization, a kind of thinking called "comfort" has gradually taken over people's minds. It is not just the soldiers who lack murderous intent, but the upper levels of the government also lack the spirit of adventure.
Yes, the same is true for the upper levels of government!
People have become afraid to take risks, do not want to take risks, and hope to live their lives peacefully.
In other words, the inferior genetic philosophy of human beings is doomed to this. From a genetic level, it has never been more noble than other K-class civilizations...
Humanity is united only because of some good luck, some adventures, and the right choices made in a certain period of time... and because of the legacy of another declining civilization, it barely crosses the big filter.
that is it.
This nascent interstellar civilization is still too weak.
The quality of modern people has indeed become better, and they have even realized the ideal society in the minds of some sociologists. However, invisibly, genetic philosophical theories such as "survival" and "reproduction" and the "theory of civilizational entropy" continue to
Inducing the degradation of civilization.
"People's lives are good enough, why not maintain the status quo? Why take risks?"
This is...the inherent thinking of current civilization!
But the theory of entropy increase stipulates that nothing in the universe is eternal... For a civilization, if it cannot move forward, it means that the entropy has increased to the extreme and decay has begun, and it can only retreat.
Yu Yifeng was born in the special forces. In the past, his sense of danger was very sensitive. Now... this kind of danger intuition has not appeared for more than a hundred years, which makes his sense of danger become quite serious.
slow.
Humans are like this. Things that are not used will slowly degrade. Even superhuman beings are like this... and the same is true for civilizations composed of human individuals!
He silently felt the crisis in his heart, savoring this feeling that he had not felt for a long time.
But for humans, this kind of uneasiness and this kind of crisis is the driving force for progress! Will interstellar civilization advance infinitely?
of course not!
Why are all the Destroyer civilizations so powerful? Perhaps their genetic philosophy is also inferior... But they grew up in crises and wars!
If Yu Yifeng had some realization, he thought, the new human civilization is very young, but it seems a little sluggish...
He savored the uneasiness in his heart...
Danger, very dangerous, hellish danger...
But this kind of danger feels a bit far away... It is not as strong as when you are on the verge of death...
"Can it still be controlled..."
Looking at the arguing crowd, Yu Yifeng suddenly made up his mind.
He raised his hand to signal, and everyone suddenly fell silent. Yu Yifeng said seriously: "Do you know... I am very scared. I am afraid that our risky actions will plunge the entire civilization into the abyss of extinction!"
"But I'm afraid that we are now making "escape". This seemingly correct choice has made the entire civilization become more cowardly and less adventurous in the process of development."
"Today's decision may be a key point in the development of civilization..."
"This general trend... is like a snowball. After reaching a certain situation, we want to change but cannot change... It is really difficult, like an avalanche, destroying everything in the way."
"This should be a process of increasing entropy of civilization, right?"
The development of civilization is continuous and a complex chaotic problem. The impact of the same thing is not only now, but also in the distant future... Why did the sprout of capitalism appear in the West instead of the East? Perhaps it was faintly visible thousands of years ago.
There are signs...
For an excellent leader, his goal is of course to find the global optimal solution to complex problems. However, due to limitations of intelligence, people can often only find local optimal solutions. This algorithm is called "
Greedy Algorithm".
In layman's terms, it means taking one step at a time and taking whichever step is easier...
But with such a simple and crude algorithm, for a complex problem, there is a high probability that the global optimal solution cannot be found, and it is easy to fall into a dead end...
"Now, although we are sure of winning the bet, we don't dare to block it, even though we have a very reasonable answer... Yes, escaping is very correct, it looks correct..."
"But this is a beginning that lacks courage. In fact, this kind of beginning is not formed in a day or two, but a trend formed in one, two, or a hundred years..."
"This general trend is affecting you, me, and everyone. In fact... it is caused by us finding the local optimal solution."
Seeing that Xu Yunjin still had something to say, Yu Yifeng looked at him and raised a finger: "Of course, taking risks is not about dying... Looking for courage is not about staying here endlessly..."
"One month, let's continue here for one month! One month is not much time. If it doesn't work, we will leave!"
"Okay, this is my final decision!"
In this way, Yu Yifeng was determined to continue to capture Gaian creatures here. The conference room was almost silent, and everyone was thinking about what he said. If people ran away now, it seemed very reasonable.
But maybe thousands or hundreds of years later, people will fall into endless regret.
Regret that today, mankind ran away cowardly!
Xu Yunjin originally wanted to say a few words, but suddenly shook his head and sighed.
Greed is a kind of original sin. Even interstellar civilization cannot get rid of this emotion.
And comfort is a kind of original sin, which directly leads people to indulge in the material ocean... A civilization that increasingly lacks courage will find it difficult to gain a foothold in the sea of stars.
"So, our educational actions must be accelerated!" an expert suddenly said.
"We must quickly capture the "Gaia creature" through various methods as soon as possible. It would be great if we could capture it and run away before the alien spacecraft arrives!"
Immediately afterwards, the meeting began to discuss some detailed issues, such as whether the Deep Space should be hidden as soon as possible, whether to make a large cloth and cover the Deep Space to reduce the possibility of being observed, etc.
The larger Titan spacecraft should also be recalled and hidden. It doesn't matter because the humans on the surface are too small. The probability of being discovered in the first place is very low...
All in all, all actions are taken to reduce the possibility of being observed.
After the meeting, everyone left with a lot of work matters and worried. According to the content of the meeting, people must hide everything that will lead to exposure as soon as possible.
Yu Yifeng is preparing to land on the planet from the Titan spacecraft again and issue more instructions.
Although staying on the Deep Space is safer than staying on a planet, there are so many people struggling on the front line, so Yu Yifeng is still willing to stand on the front line and share risks with them.
At this moment, another young think tank member, Xiao Yu, caught up with him urgently: "Captain, I also thought of something else to ask..."
"What do you say?" Yu Yifeng opened the ship's hatch and turned around to ask.
His mind is heavy now, at least the decision to stay here was made by himself.
Xiao Yu said hurriedly: "I think that although our success rate of winning the bet is not small, it is not big either. It is about half and half...the decision-making power lies in the hands of the other party!"
"We don't know what means more advanced interstellar civilizations have. We can only know it through Hei's description... But Hei can't know everything in the civilization..."
Yu Yifeng sighed, facing this young man, he said directly: "So, no strategy is absolutely safe. If we want to pursue absolute safety, we can only leave this planet now..."
"But risks and benefits are always proportional! You also heard what I just said. The benefits are not only for Gaia's creatures, but also for the ideology of our entire civilization. If we are too comfortable, we will fall..."