The old madman and Princess Shencan also showed great curiosity about the extremely strange magic weapon in front of them. With their cultivation level, they could probably guess this magic weapon by quietly using their own mental exploration.
some functions.
"Well... I thought your Mo family would be a... how should I put it? A more serious organization. I didn't expect you to have such a product." The expression on Princess Shencan's face was quite complicated, one that wanted to laugh but not.
He smiled awkwardly, with a strange expression on his face.
"Ahem, we will also consider the various needs of citizens to a certain extent. Magic weapons like this are usually outsourced and handed over to special companies to customize. We will regularly promote social progress in these projects every year.
There is a fixed proportion of investment in industries that do not have decisive significance, but in fact that is all.
Being able to make magic weapons so lifelike can only be said to be the company's own ability. We actually do not encourage the development of related industries."
Lan Nuo forced the topic back to a more serious direction, and Princess Shencan also pretended that she had not seen anything just now, and continued to ask: "What do you mean by not encouraging the development of related industries? Didn't I say before that we would respond to the needs of citizens?
Are you satisfied? This should be considered a very important need."
Lan Nuo shook his head: "The desires of intelligent life itself are also divided into high and low levels. Those primitive and low-level desires will be restrained little by little with the development of the times, or even eliminated little by little.
Things that we take for granted now, if we put them in ancient times, would actually be considered unreasonable and infringe on everyone's freedom.
Just like it is impossible for us to see someone of the opposite sex we like on the street, knock him unconscious with a stick, and then take him home to mate. However, this was a natural behavior when humans have not yet entered the civilized period. No one
They will criticize this kind of behavior and even think that it is unreasonable to stop this kind of behavior.
I am not saying that human interests can only develop on the path of promoting social progress and wisdom sublimation. For everyone, in the current era, they have the right to freely choose their own interests, but as a guide for the advancement of society,
, we also have the obligation to let the society as a whole gradually get rid of vulgar taste.
It does not mean that laws are issued to prohibit the existence of certain interests, but that in the process of allocating social resources, the development speed of some industries will naturally slow down, and people will be actively guided to accept more positive interests. In this way, as time goes by,
As the world continues to change, people's choices about their interests will also change subtly.
Of course, in this process, there will always be some people left behind, and for them, we have also prepared an ending that suits their ideas, which involves another system. So far, we call this system
Merit system.”
"Public ethics system?" Princess Shencan asked with a slight expression on her face: "Is it a system related to the power of faith?"
Lan Nuo shook his head and said: "No, the ethics mentioned here are social ethics. To put it simply, it means not littering and helping an old lady cross the road. To say it more broadly, it may mean going to remote mountainous areas to support construction.
Inventions create things that can change the world.
This is somewhat similar to the merit system we mentioned before, but the difference is that the merit system is for living people, while the merit system is for dead people.
There are always some people who are unwilling to contribute to society, or who just want to live a comfortable life for themselves, or even want to be like the ancient emperors who were above others.
But we may not be able to satisfy them in real life, especially those who want to be superior to others. In reality, it is almost impossible for these people's wishes to be satisfied, but many people will put thousands of people
Take the above as your ultimate pursuit.
It may be extremely painful for them to live in the world we have built today, and they may even become a destabilizing factor in society and cause a series of destruction."
Princess Shencan nodded: "I can understand this situation. In fact, even if you don't say it, I still want to ask this. Even if you have strong security management capabilities, if you encounter an extraordinary person who only wants to cause destruction,
, it is very difficult to take precautions. It is impossible to keep an eye on everyone every moment every day, and monitor everything they eat, drink, and have sex! Even ordinary people will definitely not be able to accept it.
It is too easy for extraordinary people to cause damage when they are not being monitored. Even if you can catch clues afterwards and punish the extraordinary person who carried out the crime, the damage that has been caused cannot be recovered.
, and they may only need one second to massacre tens of thousands of people."
Lan Nuo nodded approvingly: "I didn't expect you to realize this. You are right. This is one of the important problems we encountered in the early days of establishing social order. There are very few people who are willing to retaliate against society at the cost of their own lives.
But even if it is only a very small number, the damage it brings to social order is still huge.
Faced with this situation, it is better to block it than to open it up. It is impossible for us to monitor everyone's thoughts and conduct strict ideological review on a regular basis. This will only make people become more extreme.
If you want to make these people who want to retaliate against society give up their original ideas, or even let them actively serve society, you must let these people see hope and let them see that there is a chance that their dreams can be realized.
In reality, we will not allow anyone to dominate others, but this may not be the case in the virtual world. Artificial intelligence constructed from chips can serve as a servant to serve users, and can provide these
People can achieve self-satisfaction as long as these artificial intelligences are real enough.
And our current neural connection technology is quite advanced, and even extraordinary people can make them unable to distinguish between reality and virtuality.
Normally, the permissions of this kind of virtual reality technology are not open to ordinary citizens, and the virtual reality permissions that ordinary citizens can apply will not provide services that are of low interest.
Only those who, after many times of guidance, still lack the ambition to make progress and are still unable to integrate into the existing social order can apply to open the merit system.
After turning on the merit system, when they do things that would have earned merit, the merit will be converted into merit, and the purchasing power of merit in the virtual world will be a hundred times that of merit, and their various permissions in the virtual world will also gradually increase.
Unlock.
In this way, in the real world, they can become qualified social individuals and strictly abide by social ethics, while in the virtual world, they can get what they cannot get in reality.
But this is actually a last resort strategy. I think you can also imagine what the final fate of such a person will be."
The old madman seemed to have thought of something very bad in the past, and said with a not-so-good look on his face: "Such a person will eventually indulge in virtuality. After accumulating enough merit in reality, he will completely enter the virtual world, and then
He won’t come out either.”
"Yes, this kind of thing has actually happened a lot. The merit system can allow individuals who are originally unwilling to integrate into society to become moral saints while they still have the energy. But in the final analysis, their purpose remains the same.
It’s about having fun in a virtual world.
Once they think they have enough merit to enjoy eternal bliss, they will completely give up life on this side of reality.
Therefore, when we open the merit system, we basically target the death penalty in reality. Only those individuals who are potentially extremely harmful to society and may cause major damage to society can be granted access to the merit system, and they have every reason to refuse to use it.
, but so far no one has really refused.
For them, this may be a dream opportunity, and many people are even actively applying to open the merit system, but from our perspective, this is actually a very long death sentence.
It’s just that the execution method is very gentle, and may even make the person being executed enjoy it, but in essence it is still the death of wisdom. Do those who are completely immersed in the virtual world know their final ending?”
The two shook their heads. It was hard to imagine what would happen to such a person in the end. They even felt that being able to call the shots and do anything in the virtual world did not seem to be a particularly bad ending.
"The variables in their thinking will be extinguished quickly during this process. It usually only takes about five hundred years in the virtual world for their intelligent thinking to completely disappear.
They have turned into beings that are no different from artificial intelligence. Even though their physical bodies are still retained and their brains are still active, their every move can be completely calculated, just like a machine with its own
With coded artificial intelligence, every choice made is certain, and such a person can basically be considered dead.
Because we can easily program the same artificial intelligence, even if we force them back to reality, it is just equivalent to having another robot with artificial intelligence, and it may be an artificial intelligence with a very bad personality program."
Looking at the unpleasant expressions on their faces, Lan Nuo sighed and said: "So, I don't like the merit system. It is actually a survival of the fittest in society. Those wisdoms that have almost no possibility of improvement are removed from society.
filter out.
It's like pulling out the seedlings that are not growing well from the nursery so that the seedlings with better growth potential can have a better growing environment.
But this is ultimately a kind of elimination. No one has any possibility of improvement, and no one deserves to be given up. It’s just that our abilities are limited and we have to make compromises in the face of productivity and the future of some people.
Perhaps one day, when we have enough ability, the merit system will be completely eliminated, and everyone will be guided to spontaneously move forward and pursue higher wisdom."
Princess Shencan looked at the people who chose to enter the Paradise on her data terminal, shook her head and said: "No matter what the ending is, it is their own choice. This is not your problem. If you don't give
If this choice is made, the ending of these people will be much more tragic.
As you said before, no one is responsible for the future of the entire civilization, you are just individuals in the civilization, and other individuals are also responsible for their own choices."
The thinking of these individuals who choose to enter the Elysian World will be accelerated by auxiliary computing devices, and then they will enjoy hundreds or thousands of years in such a virtual world. Eventually, their thinking will become completely rigid and there will no longer be anything different from artificial intelligence.
Social resources are limited and it is impossible to support them forever. Therefore, after confirming that there are no variables in their thinking, their thinking will stop abruptly and have no ending, just like a machine that has been unplugged.
Just like a computer with a power supply, everything stopped, there was no desperate struggle, and there was no violent resistance.
And these are the acquiescence of those who choose to enter the paradise world. Such death will not cause any pain. Rather, they have actually died long ago, and now only the reverberations of their thoughts have been erased.
Lan Nuo people know very well that the merit system is actually the biggest loophole in their current social system, if not one of them. If this thunder explodes in the future, it may cause the entire civilization to fall.
Lannos can only do their best to make people wary of this outcome. Even if they don't create a system, virtual reality technology will still be invented, and the impact of virtual reality technology without established rules will be
It will be like the newly born Internet.
There is no basic order, so too many evils have arisen from it. After this behemoth develops, it is already impossible to establish order and allow everyone to access the Internet with their real names...
If the merit system is not established and virtual reality technology is popularized first, the possible situation will only be worse. In the movie "Inception", countless people who are intoxicated in dreams may be the ones who cover the world at that time.
Reflect.
…
"Okay, let's not talk about these things anymore. I hope that after you lead the ancient tribes to integrate into the new social system, you will also be as cautious as possible when encountering virtual reality technology. The harder it is to resist your own low-level civilization,
The more difficult it is for an individual to escape from the illusory world.
We can open this technology to you, but we hope that you will abide by the agreement we have formulated during use and not open it uncontrollably." Lan Nuo's words made the Shencan Princess also start to weigh the future development of her race.
.
And she felt that maybe she could wake up part of her race in advance and let them integrate into Ziwei Star first. At least they would not fall behind this planet. Otherwise, let alone becoming an emperor, they might not even be able to reach the level of ordinary people in the future.
