Optimus Tower, underground warehouse.

When Wu Xiaoqing came in, the search and rescue team was busy, and the concept of busyness was that Wu Xiaoqing said a word to him, and he needed more than 30 seconds to reply. Although it is still possible to communicate, it is very inefficient, and most importantly, it is not suitable for decision-making.

Wu Xiaoqing now has a rough understanding of some of the principles of the search and rescue team, before that, he still regarded the search and rescue team as an AI, if it is really AI, then only need to give enough computing resources, can significantly improve the thinking efficiency of the search and rescue team.

Later, Wu Xiaoqing discovered that in fact, the thinking mode of the search and rescue team is close to that of humans.

Although the search and rescue team can easily do multi-threaded work, there is a limit to this thread - it is probably equivalent to doing the work of seven or eight people at the same time, and any more, it will appear like it is now - Wu Xiaoqing asked "What are you doing", and did not get an answer until two minutes later - "Pay attention to the futures markets of various countries".

After sitting down, Wu Xiaoqing opened the mobile phone in his hand, ready to listen to the conversation he had with Rao Xin again.

"If we look at it in a broad sense, in fact, human society is still a slave society. Isn't the control of human behavior through capital called slavery? Employees and slaves, only there is a difference in the degree of slavery. ”

"It's true that there is a highly developed society that relies on AI to perform work, and that's essentially because the AI they make is still an anthropomorphic program. In fact, complete anthropomorphism is not a good idea to create AI, human beings have certainly produced civilization, but do we need to create an AI, and then let them face such a civilization again according to the route of human beings? ”

"No, let's be realistic, all we need is tools, tools that can replace our work. Even if AI is intelligent, it doesn't necessarily need to give them the emotional and moral ...... that belong to human beings."

"The war between humans and AI that you described, in fact, is essentially a war between humans and humans, because they are all using human morality, and AI is just using programs to simulate people's neural links, and their logic is the same."

"This kind of AI technology is actually just adding trouble out of thin air, just like the poor people in the past, who obviously just wanted to raise a cow to work, but they thought the cow was stupid, so they raised a slave to do it. There is an inherently conflicting ...... between humanity and efficiency"

"If you say that this situation does exist and there is a solution to it, the only way I can think of is for everyone to reconcile and recognize AI as a member of the human race. The definition of human beings should not be these DNAs, they should not be made up of proteins, they should be the logic of our thinking, the way we respond to the world. After that, what we should do is to make another way of giving feedback to the AI......"

The lights in the room flickered a few times at this time, and Wu Xiaoqing understood that this was a sign that the search and rescue team had returned. There was a headset where he was sitting, Wu Xiaoqing picked up the headphones, adjusted the volume, and then heard the search and rescue team ask him: "It seems that your trip is going well." ”

"It's going well," Wu Xiaoqing nodded, "Let's talk." ”

"Okay, I'll ask first, about this mission," the search and rescue team said, "time is tight, I can arrange it quickly." ”

"Hmm."

"Civilization A won't help, right?"

Wu Xiaoqing nodded, but then shook his head again.

The search and rescue team paused, then asked again, "Did they return the spacecraft to us?" ”

"You know?" Wu Xiaoqing was almost relieved. After all, the deal was agreed to by him alone, and he had always feared that if it went against the wishes of the search and rescue team, the outcome might not be so good. But from the words of the search and rescue team now, it can be heard that this is originally the stuff of the search and rescue team - that is, A did not lie to him in this matter.

"Of course," said the search and rescue team, "this ship has been specially recorded in the history of the search and rescue team's civilization." So it looks like you've given them a gift too? ”

Wu Xiaoqing's face darkened for a moment, and then said, "Yes." ”

"What sent?"

"A hair...... Hair containing DNA information," Wu Xiaoqing asked almost subconsciously, "Is there anything wrong with this?" ”

The search and rescue team shook their heads: "No...... At the very least, this is also a backup for the earth's civilization, in short, a good thing. ”

Wu Xiaoqin relieved her heart and said, "It is said that what museum are they going to do?" What is this for? ”

"It's just a museum," the search and rescue team said, "For a civilization of A's level, any planet under his control can be called a planet museum." In fact, for our search and rescue team, all civilizations that have successfully rescued and left teleportation coordinates are also our museums. ”

"For every civilization saved, there is one more civilization sample in the universe. Is there any specific value for the samples in the museum? But is it worthless? Not necessarily. If you search the whole universe, I'm afraid it will be impossible to rely on just one hair to get back such a spaceship. ”

Wu Xiaoqing was stunned: "What do you mean?" A civilization ......"

"Yes, that's what you guess," said the search and rescue team, "you never know which of the civilizations you save will become A's and which will perish." More often than not, it's a silent demise – and we can't even be reminded. However, as long as there is such an example as civilization A, as long as there is a success...... What we do is valuable. ”

"But if that's the case, why...... They won't come to help us? ”

"Every civilization will choose its own path, A is right," the search and rescue team said, "A mature civilization will never look back at the road it has traveled, what civilization has to do is to continue, just like Rao Xin said, to continue this unique model that belongs to civilization itself, just like you continue DNA." ”

"The progress of the earth's ecology is based on the selection and elimination of nature, and the progress of civilization is based on their own screening. Choosing to be a conservative civilization is the path chosen by this civilization, and choosing to be a radical civilization is the path we have chosen. ”

"At the very least, judging from the results of their respective developments, they are more successful...... However, even so, we will not change our original intention, since we have chosen this path in the first place, we must have the determination to go to the end. ”

With these words of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing's mood became heavy little by little.

When he talked to Rao Xin just now, he actually had a faint feeling that the number of civilizations that had existed in the universe might be far beyond his imagination, but their form of existence, if deduced according to Rao Xin's logic, did not seem to be bizarre.

The universe is an enlarged version of the earth's society, where everyone has it - but no matter how independent it is, it still has to abide by the basic rules, and each civilization will have its own interests and tendencies. It should be an instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

But when the search and rescue team just mentioned Civilization A and the Planet Museum, Wu Xiaoqing began to realize that this "cosmic society" may be more complicated than he thought.

On the earth, the relationship between people is to communicate with each other, and it is normal for interests to be connected through communication. But in the universe, the relationship between civilizations is like BC sending a colony ship to civilization A. A is silent from beginning to end, BC doesn't even know about their existence, but as soon as BC enters A's range, A will choose to destroy these two civilizations without mercy.

This means that there is an extreme lack of order in the great society of the universe.

According to common sense, in the absence of order, very conservative cosmic values will naturally be formed. It's like when there is a war in turmoil, people will choose to survive in their familiar environment if they can survive, because the cost of going out to adventure is too high. But in the universe, there is still such an anomaly - the search and rescue team belongs to such a civilization.

But, as Wu Xiaoqing worried, the cost of the existence of this kind of anomaly is huge. From the first time he saw the search and rescue team, from the time he followed the search and rescue team into that spaceship, he actually had a feeling. Now, combined with what the search and rescue team said to him, and the previous conversation with A, he can almost sketch the experience of the search and rescue team as a civilization.

Saving civilization sounds very noble, but in the universe, this kind of nobility is not welcomed, not to mention that other civilizations are not welcome, even if it is the civilization that has been saved by him, it is also not welcome.

Because there is a clear truth, civilization needs pragmatism more than nobility. Survival is the first and foremost essence of civilization. For other civilizations, the actions of the search and rescue team are certainly respectable, and the civilizations that have been saved by him will be grateful to them, but they will never follow suit.

Wu Xiaoqing did not feel heavy because this nobility was buried, but because he began to realize how bleak the prospects he was about to face.

Before this mission, or rather, before the operation, Wu Xiaoqing had a natural admiration and unreasonable belief in the search and rescue team, because at that time, in his opinion, no matter what happened, as long as the search and rescue team came out, all problems could be solved.

But now Wu Xiaoqing can't have this kind of thinking anymore. In fact, from this time, the search and rescue team sent itself to communicate with A alone, and you can feel a certain signal released by the search and rescue team - this is not only a kind of experiment and decentralization, but also a manifestation of his lack of sufficient confidence in this mission.

At least, judging from the situation that Wu Xiaoqing has now, the prospects for this mission are pessimistic.

Even if he mastered a spaceship, he had no confidence in relying on this ship alone to face two civilizations that were now armed to the teeth. Not to mention that this ship is a rescue ship used by the search and rescue team civilization, there is almost no weapon system, and even if there is, even if this ship can completely suppress B and C, it will not help to complete this mission in the slightest.

They are there to save two civilizations, according to the previous definition of salvation, to solve the problem completely. If we only rely on violence to deter two civilizations, then what is the salvation?

Not to mention, the ship simply has nothing to deter.

"You should understand a lot of things." The search and rescue team whispered.

Wu Xiaoqing nodded and did not answer.

"But you don't seem to be going to regret it either."

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head, still not answering.

"Go and call Shen Changwen and them," Wu Xiaoqing felt for the first time, with a hint of helplessness in the electronic voice of the search and rescue team, "Prepare for a meeting." ”