Chapter 33 The Law of Flickering in the Dark Forest
"Little guy, please stop playing tricks on me." Lao Deng felt tired.
"No, this is not a joke." Joan of Arc said for Hans. "You still haven't figured out the essential problem of yourself. Or the current essential problem of the wizarding world."
"Tell me, what did you see?"
"Magic, although it has all kinds of peculiarities and strangeness, and in a sense is more like a miracle to ordinary people, its essence is still a tool, which is controlled by the wizard's thoughts and behaviors and is a means to achieve the wizard's purpose.
It’s just that this method is simpler and more efficient than ordinary people’s methods.”
"To use an inappropriate metaphor, ordinary people may only be able to calculate addition and subtraction. But wizards are born with multiplication and division. There is no need to go through calculations or analysis. They can get the results directly by just looking at the questions. So when
When ordinary people need to learn to use multiplication and division, they need to study theorems and formulas, and then calculate the results. This is the difference between ordinary people and wizards. Therefore, in ancient times, ordinary people's science and technology did not form a system.
, before the multiplication and division formula theorem was developed, wizards were more advanced."
"That statement makes a lot of sense, so what if it's modern?" Newt interjected.
"However, in modern times, ordinary people have summarized past experience and formed a development system in the field of contemporary science and technology. Basic scientific research discovers the essence or basic rules of the world, and then through industrial development and applied technology research, the basic research results are further transformed into people's knowledge.
Actual tools or products that can be used, and then use these new tools and products to further improve and update research tools for basic scientific research. This is an iterative cycle of development."
"As for you wizards, it seems to me that you hold magic as an extremely high-quality tool, and compare it only to the life products of ordinary people. I don't know if there is any research on the foundation and essence of magic. Have you used magic to study this?
The world doesn't seem to be right. You have developed many magical spells for artifacts, and there are many potions and magic props that are more efficient than ordinary people understand. But from the perspective of ordinary people, you only use tools to make products.
It completely ignores the development of the magic tool itself. Likewise, it also ignores the development of the wizarding world itself. Don’t rush to refute me. You wizarding world has always been a squib. To what extent have you studied it? You can probably research it.
Well, Squibs are divided into Squibs with magic power and Squibs without magic power."
"You have gone from being the masters of magic to being controlled by magic."
"Although I don't completely agree with your idea, it seems that this is indeed the trend in the wizarding world at present," Lao Deng said with emotion. "But the problem causing this trend, I personally think is that the foundation of the magic field is too difficult, and
It’s caused by too few wizards.”
"I don't want to deny these two objective factors. But this is caused by you dividing the entire society. Although there are historical reasons for dividing the society, that is not the point. Your wizarding world is about to be destroyed because of your own choices.
You have fallen into the dark forest. Once you fall completely, your destruction will only be a matter of time."
"What is that in the dark forest?" This time it was John who asked.
"A science fiction novel that is logically self-consistent and proposes the sociological laws of the universe. It is a work that I like very much." Hans answered his grandfather's question happily.
"That must be a great work, but let's talk about this rule first."
Through Joan of Arc, she first briefly introduced the story and what cosmic sociology is, and then began to imitate the dialogue between Luo Ji and Da Shi in the novel, guiding everyone to understand the laws of the dark forest.
"I will first put forward two axioms, and you can try to refute them:
1. Survival is the first need of civilization.
2. Civilization continues to grow and expand, but in the universe, the current situation should say that the total amount of matter on the earth remains unchanged.
Does anyone have any objections? I think even magic cannot make matter appear out of thin air. The existence of that kind of interference law cannot be defined as the human domain. I think even the summoning spell in transfiguration is the same."
"As the name suggests, what is summoned seems to appear out of thin air, but it already exists and is not created out of thin air. What you think is fine, regardless of theory or knowledge of magic." Lao Deng answered. "But then what?
You can’t tell anything just from the theorem.”
"Suppose from a cosmic perspective, if there are extraterrestrial civilizations, what will happen if we observe them or they discover us?"
"Interesting hypothesis, but even if we observe other cosmic civilizations, there is nothing we can do to affect them." This time it was Lucius.
"Americans have already landed on the moon in 1969. For ordinary people, it is just a matter of time." The agent chief answered.
All the wizards were shocked and speechless.
"I think if it was a civilization with the same technological level as ours, it might really try to develop space attack weapons to destroy them." The agent leader continued, "After all, satellites, rockets, missiles and other non-living things are launched into the universe.
Objects only need to be considered for transportation. Sending people there and communicating with them becomes exponentially more difficult.”
"Can't we just leave it alone? And according to you, higher civilizations will choose to destroy us as soon as they find out about us. But we will not pose any threat to them." It was Tina who refuted him. "
What do you think, little guy?”
"I will introduce two more concepts to you, chain of suspicion and technological explosion." Joan of Arc continued to explain in detail.
"So, it's impossible to sit back and do nothing and communicate with each other. I know it." The agent leader was very happy that he was right. "This work alludes the development of human society onto the fantasy of cosmic civilization. Oh, I want to see it too."
kid"
"Oh, don't think about the novel first. What's the conclusion?" Tina was a little unhappy at the agent chief's interruption.
"When communication and laissez-faire both violate the first axiom, Tina, tell me, what other options do you have? Or do you have any other options?" Lao Deng rubbed his temples, "Although this theory does have some
Flaws, but the logic does support itself. But I don’t think the wizarding world is completely consistent with this theory.”
"Albus, think about the political factors," Old Barty suddenly said excitedly, "Think about the reasons why the four giants created Hogwarts, think about why there is a Wizarding Secrecy Act, regardless of whether the pure blood admits it or not.
, the huge difference in size is the most direct reason why wizards remain mysterious and reclusive, why?”
"Because we wizards simply cannot afford to be exposed to the primitive and bloody jungle laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and to be exposed to the price of living in the world of ordinary people, so we escape into the darkness. In the era of the Four Giants, ordinary people
But with just cold weapons, wizards were almost wiped out. If the Dark Lord completely exposed us, what do you think the Muggle Prime Minister would choose? Anyway, as a politician, if I were in the position of Muggle Prime Minister, I would never show mercy.