When Chao Qing was "making a big fuss" in Longtan Prison, You Gege was already on the bus to his hometown of Xuzhou.
Accompanying her were Zhao Jie, Lao Xu, Ye Zi and others.
It’s not very far from Nanjing to Xuzhou, but the car drove very slowly along the way, and it was already dark when we arrived in Xuzhou.
Zhao Jie never slept. After arriving in Xuzhou, he started to contact people.
In fact, Yougege didn't sleep either. She just closed her eyes and thought about things along the way.
After arriving at the temporary residence, Zhao Jie planned to let You Gege rest first, but You Gege stopped him, Lao Xu and others, saying that he had something to talk to them about.
Zhao Jie and Lao Xu naturally would not refuse, but Yezi was worried about You Gege's health and insisted on letting her rest first.
But no one could influence what You Gege decided. She asked Zhao Jie to close the door, and then started chatting with a few people in the bedroom.
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"Actually... I don't know why I asked you to stay..." Yougege's opening remarks made a few people a little confused, but no one said anything.
After pondering for a while, You Gege suddenly smiled and asked: "I know that everyone has worked hard these years. In order to achieve their goals as soon as possible, many people may have nothing except their current identities...right?"
This statement means something.
Zhao Jie knew who You Gege was talking about.
He glanced at Lao Xu, who had his head lowered and his hands crossed on his chest. He didn't know if he was asleep.
"I remember seeing a speech before, by Mr. Yang Di. He said that for ordinary people, scientific progress is divided into three types for them. The first type is written in history books, no matter what is written in the book.
Writing, few people can truly appreciate the shock brought by those scientific advances of epochal significance... And the second type is reflected in all aspects of our lives. Some are already used to it, some have heard of it, and some have a rough understanding of it.
Some principles, in short, are not too far ahead, at most they are only ten or twenty years old... As for the third type, most of the time they appear in novels or literary and artistic works, here
The reason why I ignored movies is because in my opinion, most movies do not jump out of the second category. They just... look quite advanced... After all, for the sake of box office, you can't make something that everyone can't understand...
...In fact, the third type of scientific progress has indeed gone so far that for ordinary people, it is completely made up and impossible to realize." Yougege said with a mysterious look on his face.
smile.
Zhao Jie looked at it carefully and said: "Ordinary people are very pragmatic, which is normal. On the contrary, it would be abnormal if everyone could be like us."
Yougege naturally understood this truth, but he was just sad for a moment.
Yezi couldn't quite understand what they were talking about, so he felt bored and said, "These words don't conflict with the plan we have made now, right?"
Her Chinese is not very good, but everyone present can understand her.
Lao Xu suddenly laughed at this time: "No, you still haven't heard the full meaning of sir..."
Yezi was stunned: "Oh?"
Yougege smiled and continued: "This is the essence of Yang Di's "Scientific Shackles"."
Zhao Jie had never read this book and couldn't help but wonder: "Isn't "The Theory of Scientific Shackles" a refutation of the limited scientific category? Did I understand it wrong?"
Yougege didn't speak, and Laoxu said first: "Yes, when most people hear the name of this book, they will naturally think that it expresses dissatisfaction with existing science, but in fact, if you read it carefully, you will find that it
There is praise for science everywhere, but... the relationship between science and human civilization is like a shackle. This does not mean that we are trapped in a cocoon, but that there is a human contradiction in evolution itself. How to break through it is not just a scientific issue.
It’s a matter of the subversion of humankind’s existing moral and civilizational structure.”
"What about?" Zhao Jie asked.
"For example...artificial intelligence."
"Artificial intelligence?" Zhao Jie was puzzled, and Ye Zi was also confused.
Lao Xu glanced at You Gege and continued: "Yes, artificial intelligence, you have also seen the report analyzed some time ago. The prototype of 'Jesse' has been basically completed. I think even if we don't interfere, it will be completed."
The Turing test is only a matter of ten to twenty years at most."
"Oh? So fast?" Zhao Jie was a little surprised.
Yougege: "What Lao Xu said is a conservative estimate. The time calculated by Cheng Cheng may be shorter."
"Hey...then...is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Zhao Jie asked.
Lao Xu didn't speak, and You Gege didn't answer either.
Yezi looked at a few people blankly, and then said: "Don't look at me. I don't understand what you are talking about, huh."
Lao Xu was so happy that he asked Yezi: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand. You should know about artificial intelligence."
"I know, they are just robots with independent thoughts." Yezi used something from the movie as the answer.
Lao Xu nodded: "Absolutely. In your opinion, is this a good thing or a bad thing for us?"
Yezi heard this and replied without thinking: "Of course it's a good thing."
Zhao Jie understood at this time, he smiled and asked: "Do you really think so?"
Yezi was stunned by the question. She frowned, looked at Yougege and said, "Sir, what do you think?"
Yougege pondered for a moment and then said: "The birth of 'Jessie' is theoretically very helpful to our plan, but our goal is no longer to create some large-scale disasters, and even if we
So what if 'Jessie' is cultivated into a new golden birdcage? Whether it can help us completely achieve our goal is another question."
This is true. The Golden Bird Cage carried out an eradication of human beings on Gaia, but in the end they were defeated by humans and became caged birds. Now that I think about it, it is really pitiful.
Yezi stopped talking after hearing this, but Zhao Jie asked: "But if we can really make reasonable use of 'Jesse', even if we don't cultivate it into a golden birdcage, it will be of great help to us.
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Lao Xu nodded, but he smiled and said, "Did our topic go too far? What we just discussed was not such a specific matter."
Zhao Jie was startled, then laughed: "Yes, yes, I'm going too far, I'm going too far, let's get back to the point. I still don't understand where the turning point of this conclusion is."
Lao Xu said: "Then you must first break away from the existing shackles, so that you can clearly see the essence of the problem."
"oh?"
"Look... Just like the 'Jesse' we are talking about, in fact... no matter whether it is some current works or movies, most people's attitude towards artificial intelligence is tending to be fearful and repulsive. Many people
The director even believes that human research on 'artificial intelligence' is seeking death, so is this view correct?" Lao Xu asked.
Zhao Jie thought for a while and said to himself: "Well...if artificial intelligence is really invented, with their innate powerful abilities, human beings are too primitive, and regardless of other things, just
In terms of the transmission of civilization, when artificial intelligence reproduces the next generation, it can directly give it everything it has, but we humans are much more troublesome. Even the most basic walking requires patient teaching from our parents. As for
Not to mention some basic life skills... Looking at it this way, it is normal for us to be eliminated as better civilized individuals are born, which is equivalent to agreeing with the view that 'artificial intelligence' is equivalent to disaster."
Lao Xu nodded: "Yes, for most people now, this kind of elimination that is basically foreseeable is on the way to real life, but the time is not yet certain, and I believe that most people will not because of this
It’s pointless to worry about this kind of thing.”
Zhao Jie also nodded, but Yezi couldn't listen anymore.
She said: "Hey! Wait! How can it be meaningless? Listening to what you said, I didn't feel it before, but now... hiss... it feels so terrible."
Zhao Jie and Lao Xu looked at each other and smiled, and then they both started laughing.
Yezi looked confused and had no choice but to ask Yougege for help.
Yougege explained: "What they mean is actually very simple. In four words, most people choose to 'live in the present' rather than living in the future."
Yezi frowned when she heard this. She felt as if she understood, but she didn't seem to understand at all.
"Yes...most people live in the present, which is normal...but...if we know that a disaster is coming, do we really not prepare anything and just pretend that we can't see it?"
Yougege asked back at this time: "Do you really think they just don't think about it, rather than they can't see these disasters?"
"Uh?" Yezi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and then he couldn't help but feel a chill on his back and numbness on his scalp.
"You mean... it's actually because everyone doesn't know that the disaster is coming?"
Yougege didn't answer, but it didn't seem like he acquiesced to this.
Ye Zi couldn't understand You Gege's reaction, so she looked at Lao Xu and Zhao Jie.
At this time, Zhao Jie finally understood why You Gege suddenly asked them to stay.
Lao Xu sighed and said: "Actually, many times... it's like this... When the American capitalists were engaged in real estate in Japan, most people thought that eating steamed buns with human blood could cure the disease of poverty.
But I didn’t expect that a real estate industry has suppressed Japan for more than 20 years and has not recovered... Now, from the results of various data analysis, I can see that the tide has reached China. If you have money now, believe me, just invest in real estate.
Absolutely guaranteed profits without losing money!”
Noko stopped talking. She was born in Japan, and she has more or less left some impressions of what Japan was like during the Great Depression.
"No one will tell you that the rain is coming, so you will not be able to catch up with the spring plowing. Of course, no one will tell you that it will be followed by a storm, so most people will end up with no harvest or even lose their lives... This kind of top-down
Information asymmetry is one of the shackles Yang Di mentioned."