Ningzhou University Town, Snack Street.

Wu Xiaoqing clearly remembered that when he entered A's virtual space, two pieces of advertising paper floated in front of him. It was an advertisement responsible for contacting college students' tutors and other auxiliary work, and Wu Xiaoqing had seen the content of the advertisement in the restaurant where he ate.

He was in the space of consciousness, subjectively, for two whole days.

But now, the two advertising papers in front of me have not even landed. Wu Xiaoqing felt his stomach, and he even felt full after he had just eaten.

Wu Xiaoqing's first thought was to immediately go back to the search and rescue team and talk to him about this meeting and this transaction.

But he only walked a few steps and then stopped where he was.

I don't know why, the first person who appeared in his mind at this moment turned out to be Rao Xin.

Fifteen minutes later, the Skyscraper.

After Rao Xin returned to the company a year later, like other employees, he actually didn't have any serious work. In his spare time, what he watched the most was that he was playing games when he had nothing to do.

Wu Xiaoqing also once asked him a few words, why didn't he stop and write novels by the way, Rao Xin's words were also direct - writing novels for him is just to make a living, in fact, he prefers to play games. It's a pity that the game level is too poor, otherwise he might have gone to become a professional gamer.

Before walking into the door of the company, Wu Xiaoqing could actually hear the voices and discussions of many people in the company, but after Wu Xiaoqing walked in, this excitement disappeared. Although Wu Xiaoqing didn't usually show any majesty, everyone still consciously returned to their seats, opened a few reports and other documents, and pretended to be working hard.

But as far as Wu Xiaoqing knows, in fact, since more than a month ago, the entire company has no serious work to do.

Before Wu Xiaoqing met A, the preparations for this mission, all that could be prepared, had actually been almost done. In the past month, more than once, the following employees, from Chen She, the general manager, to the clerks, are worried about the question - why the company has not launched new projects, whether their jobs are still guaranteed, and whether they need to prepare for layoffs in advance......

Although the search and rescue team was very good at reassuring the subordinates, Wu Xiaoqing could feel that every time he came to the office, everyone's eyes were staring at him. Although they had never asked themselves a word, Wu Xiaoqing could sense their fervent hope.

This time was no exception.

Unlike usual, this time Wu Xiaoqing did not go directly to his office, or just walked around the office area and left, but walked directly into Chen She's office.

Twenty minutes later, Chen She, who was still taking a nap just now, walked out energetically and called Yan Yan and He Yuqing, as well as the two project directors who were later promoted, into the office. Soon, everyone was able to get a new job placement – similar to the previous job, all they needed to do was to contact some people through various channels to participate in the consultation session.

Although the exact content of the consultation meeting is still unclear, several general directions can already be determined, according to the previous work practice, making an appointment with relevant personnel in advance will greatly improve the efficiency of the consultation meeting.

Rao Xin noticed the change in the atmosphere in the office, but what made him a little strange was that until now, no one had come to contact him. Strictly speaking, since he joined the company, other colleagues have not communicated with him - because there is almost no overlap between their work. Rao Xin's position in Qinglan Company is actually Wu Xiaoqing's personal consultant.

When he saw Wu Xiaoqing walking out of Chen She's office, Rao Xin glanced at him, Wu Xiaoqing nodded at him and pointed to his office.

"How's your girlfriend looking? I heard that it didn't go very well? Wu Xiaoqing had heard about this before, and Rao Xin's screening blind date encountered a big setback - probably because Rao Xin did not pay attention to confidentiality during the implementation process, and those girls knew about each other's existence, so the result can be imagined. Rao Xin's image has become a typical scumbag, and dozens of blind dates have been done on dozens or hundreds of people in a month in a month - this has become a typical example of Rao Xin's hometown becoming bad after being rich.

"I'm still not suitable for specific work," Rao Xin didn't look a little embarrassed, and the expression on his face seemed to be just typing a few typos when he coded the words, "The schedule is too tight, so that the two blind dates before and after have met." Is there any new project in the company? ”

"Sort of," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I came to you mainly because I had a question to ask your opinion." ”

Rao Xin nodded and motioned for Wu Xiaoqing to continue.

"That's right," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I've heard a saying before that it is about a high-level civilization in the universe, and he said that the more advanced the civilization, the higher the level of morality, which is not a by-product of civilization, but the opposite—morality is the key to determining whether civilization can survive." Do you think there is any truth to this statement? ”

"Yes," Rao Xin replied without thinking, "I've always been this concept. Morality is actually a kind of production relation, which is consistent with the productive forces themselves. The morality of the slave age can only produce the civilization of the slave age, and if the civilization needs to progress, it must take the initiative to abandon this backward morality, otherwise, it will be wiped out by the foreign civilization, or by the supporters of this morality within itself. In the progress of civilization on the whole earth, the emergence of this new morality, and the process of the demise of the old morality, have always been the source of historical progress. If there were extraterrestrial civilizations in this world, I believe that the same laws would work for them, and the effect would be even more pronounced than on Earth. ”

"More obvious?"

"Yes, on Earth, the survival of a civilization is greatly disturbed by external factors. Most of the civilizations on Earth have died to other civilizations...... The factors that have died in other civilizations are diverse, it may be like the Australian aborigines, who have been bound by geography for a long time, it may be like Loulan, because of the changes in natural conditions, or it may be like ancient Greece or Rome, because of foreign enemies...... On the contrary, if civilization reaches the current level of the earth, and the entire planet is unified, it will be difficult for other civilizations to invade and lead to extinction. Because the distance between the stars is so far that any interstellar voyage or interstellar war cannot be disguised...... The continuation of a civilization can only be limited to a large extent by its own limitations. For example, I would not be surprised at all if humanity died in the Cold War, and if humanity is to move further under the current balance of nuclear deterrence, it is necessary to produce some kind of new morality that can be accepted by all. The morality that the strong is king is on the verge of invalidation after coming into contact with nuclear weapons. ”

Wu Xiaoqing frowned, it was not that he didn't understand Rao Xin's words, but he felt that there were more meanings in this passage, and he couldn't fully comprehend it for a while. Wu Xiaoqing took out his mobile phone and pressed the recording: "This is considered consultation information, you should be able to understand it, can you repeat this paragraph just now?" ”

Rao Xin smiled: "I understand, but I'm a little nervous." Let me put it another way, this one is a little more hypothetical. In fact, every civilization basically corresponds to the relationship between a kind of elements, slave civilization, the elements are very simple, slaves are responsible for production, slave owners violently control slaves, from nature, to the final products of civilization, there are two links in between, and these two links determine the production and distribution of all materials of civilization. Think of each civilization as a business, and that's the competition between businesses. From a tribe to a country...... It's just like the commercial market today. What do investors pay most attention to in the business sector right now? Is it the profit margin of the business? Everybody is looking at the business model, what is the business model? In fact, it is a mode of civilization. ”

"In the past, factories produced, dealers wholesaled, and stores retailed, which was a kind of civilization; Now, factories ship directly online, consumers order remotely, and intermediate logistics are connected, which is another civilization entirely; In the factory model, people are concerned about profits, when merchants set high prices, consumers bargain, and play games around prices, which is the old business ethics; In the e-commerce model, people pay attention to the overall impact and image of the market, merchants can sell things at a loss, consumers can get cash back for good reviews, and they can get compensation for bad reviews. In the old business ethics, selling at a loss is disrupting the market order......"

"I'm a little confused, but that's what it means. Higher productive forces must produce newer, more efficient relations of production – in fact, relations of production are a kind of morality. Slaves do not need to be paid, in the slave era it was public morality, but now, it is heinous, a truth. ”

Wu Xiaoqing nodded and agreed with what Rao Xin said: "Then if, a civilization...... Well, if the earth, the concept of AI on the earth is very popular now, if one day in the future, all the work is done by AI, what kind of new morality will it produce? ”

"It's very simple, communist morality," Rao Xin said, "the current capitalist morality is to use money to measure social contributions, and to allocate social resources according to social contributions." If you don't work and don't get social contributions, then you are not eligible for social resources. In the future, if everyone's work can be replaced and distributed according to the capitalist model, it is clear that everyone will fall into the fallacy that everyone is not entitled to the product. Naturally, a new morality emerged – in fact, it had already been produced, that is, the allocation of social resources according to need. ”

Wu Xiaoqing stood up and walked to the window of his office - once he was in that virtual world, and it was also in this position, looking at the completely unfamiliar civilization outside, looking at the ladders, the tracks, and the crowd on the seats...... Now, all he sees is the high-rise buildings in Ningzhou and the traffic on the highway.

"So, for those AIs, does such a world mean their slave society?"

Rao Xin paused: "I don't know, after all, AI on the earth is only a conceptual product. If AI really has the full ability of human thinking, I believe so. ”

"So, will history enter a new cycle again? This opposition is certainly unsolvable. ”

Rao Xin shook his head: "I don't see it that way, I never believe in this kind of circular fatalism." ”

"We live in a finite world, and a finite world necessarily corresponds to finite rules, whether such rules are social or scientific, this is a simple matter of logic."

"If we ignore the time factor, the whole world will inevitably reach a state of final equilibrium. In a physical sense, the entire universe must be subject to heat death – based on the rules of physics as we know it so far. ”

"Based on civilization, I dare not say that other civilizations, at least human civilization will inevitably move towards communism. What determines this direction is the essential preference of human beings – our natural aversion to domination, to unnecessary work. If this essence does not change, there will definitely be only one stable solution for human civilization in the future. ”

"You just mentioned AI, after AI intervenes in our civilization, if we define AI according to our essence, and finally achieve a stable value, it must be AI and us coexist, and we will merge into a life form; If we define AI as another form, such as their natural preference for domination and labor, then we may become a complementary civilization, just like the relationship between eukaryotic cells and mitochondria – it's hard to say that mitochondria are slaves to cells. ”