It is clear and accurate that there can be no exhaustive evolution without an abundant supply of materials. Of course, robots themselves can also be counted as materials, and extremely large, perhaps as many as tens of trillions of robots are a lot of resources in themselves, but these resources are still very limited compared to a planet or a star system. The materials needed for exhaustive evolution can only be supported by star systems, and cannot be supported by the robot group itself.

Xiao Yun was silent again, and then figured out this truth. So Xiao Yun nodded and said, "This plan seems to be very feasible. I will start arranging for this solution to be tested in the field on the robot group as soon as possible. ”

"My team also came up with a second and third option." Xiao Muhong said, "Or, you should make a comprehensive evaluation of these three options. ”

"Please." Xiao Yun continued.

"The second option we call the "invalid evolution" solution. Xiao Muhong said calmly, "In short, it is to consume the vitality of the robot group through the level of technology that some robot groups can never evolve to, so as to drag them into the abyss of evolution, and finally achieve the goal of destroying all robots." ”

"Here's the solution: we know the evolutionary mechanism of robots, and we know that after they acquire a high-tech creation, they try to master it through exhaustive evolution, and finally use the technology for their own purposes. Moreover, this kind of exhaustive evolution is engraved in their bones, and once there are creations beyond their technological level, then exhaustive evolution must begin. ”

"So...... If we design and manufacture a scientific and technological creation that is very different from the current level of robot technology - for example. Suppose that the current level of technology of the Robot Group is only sufficient to make pistols. And we gave the robot group a catastrophe-level weapon? Does this mean. No matter how many robots there are, no matter how long they have evolved to the ground, they will never be able to grasp the principles of natural calamity-level weapons? ――Because the technological gap between a pistol and a catastrophe-level weapon is too large, there are countless technological faults in it, and the evolution of robots also needs to be gradual, and they are unlikely to make technological leaps. ”

So what happens when that happens? We know that exhaustive evolution comes at the cost of bots, and that every failed evolution kills a bot, and ...... A robot that only understands the principles of pistol manufacturing will never be able to rely on exhaustive evolution to master the principles of creating a catastrophe-class weapon. Does this mean that the robot group will waste all their energy on this impossible thing, and thus lead to the decline of their own race? ”

Xiao Muhong finished talking about what they called "ineffective evolution" in one breath, and then stopped, looked at Xiao Yun quietly, and waited for Xiao Yun's reply.

Xiao Yun rubbed his head a little tiredly, and once again fell into thought. In the middle of the sound, Xiao Yun shook his head and denied the plan: "I don't think the plan is feasible. ”

"First of all, the scheme was wrong from the start. Because the primary purpose of robots is to reproduce. Evolution is only for reproduction, that is, there is a distinction between the two. Case. How can we expect robots to sacrifice their entire population for the sake of reproduction? It doesn't make sense. ”

"Second, even if your assumption is correct, robots will cause their own population to die due to too much exhaustive evolution, but ...... I don't think the designers and builders of the robot would have overlooked such a glaring loophole. He only needs to set a rule, that is, if the evolutionary goal is too difficult to achieve, then temporarily seal the evolutionary goal and avoid investing too much in it, as long as such a rule is enough. ”

"So, all in all, I don't think it's feasible." Xiao Yun concluded, "But ...... There are still some merits to this solution, and I think we can use it to test it in the field with a robot group. ”

"Okay." Xiao Muhong nodded calmly, "Then let me talk about the third plan that our team found." We call this approach "site-specific evolution". ”

"Please." Xiao Yun gestured.

"The evolutionary mechanism of robots is to rely on foreign science and technology to create their own technology, and in our current situation, robots rely on the technology of our human civilization to achieve their own evolution, in other words, our human civilization has the leading power over the technological development of robots. Can you understand the meaning of this sentence? ”

Xiao Muhong paused, and once again projected his gaze on Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun nodded: "I can understand these meanings. Indeed, as you said, we have the lead in the development of robotics. In some respects, how the technology of robots develops depends on us, and we want to develop robots in which technology, and the robot group will develop in which technology. ”

Xiao Muhong said: "Yes, exactly. It is on this basis that our third proposal was proposed. The specific content is: our team will once again work with the institutes under the Academy of Sciences to develop a complete set of science and technology trees, according to the development of the science and technology tree, the robot group will also look at the improvement of its own capabilities, but like the first plan, the technology tree also has a fatal vulnerability: as long as the robot group evolves according to this technology tree, when they evolve to a certain extent, the core chip will have a certain mechanical fatal defect, and the defect can not be repaired by means of the virtual world. ”

"In this way, when fighting against the robot group, we can activate the vulnerability by broadcasting a message containing a specific character code, and all the core chips of the robot that were activated by the vulnerability will be burned as a result. If you lose your brain, the robot will naturally die. This is the fixed-point evolution plan developed by our team. ”

Xiao Yun fell into deep thought again. After a while, Xiao Yun said, "This plan is also highly feasible, but I also have a question for you, have you considered the situation where robots start to evolve in a hurry and after a large number of deaths?" If human civilization has gone to great lengths to develop a special technology tree with fatal flaws, and in doing so, the robots have greatly improved their abilities, only to have the defects eliminated by the robots due to their exhaustive evolution, leaving only the parts that are beneficial to them, then in this way, we have made a wedding dress for the enemy in vain? ”

"Of course I thought about that." Xiao Muhong said very simply, "Regarding your concerns, I can answer them from two aspects. First of all, this technology tree is specially customized, you should know that the development of science and technology, since it follows a certain path, then it is unlikely to change to other paths, and even if it can, it will inevitably pay a heavy price - because this is not a specific technology, it is a systematic, complete technology system. ”

I can make an analogy about this, just like the feudal era, the "alchemy system" developed in our civilization, alchemy is undoubtedly wrong, but our civilization has gone on this wrong path for a long time, the alchemy system has no value of modification, only by completely and completely overthrowing it, and re-establishing the correct scientific development system, we can return to the right path. So I ask you, can you do it to modify the alchemy system to the correct technological development system? You can't. So, we have a special tech tree for robots, and as long as the robots follow our plan, they can't fix the bugs in the tech tree. The only thing they can do is to completely overturn the tech tree and start from scratch again. Whereas...... The overthrow of the tech tree would mean the demise of the Robot Syndicate. ”

"That's the first point, and the second point is that if death comes too quickly and too much, the robot group won't have time to carry out exhaustive evolution. We can think of it this way, that is, the robots of one star system and the robots of another star system can be seen as physically isolated, and they can be seen as two unrelated groups. And if we destroy all the robots in a star system in a very short period of time, we don't give them time to send death messages to the robot groups in the rest of the star system...... So how do they start the exhaustive evolution? ”

"You know...... The information carrying a specific piece of code travels at the speed of light, and in a very short time it can sweep across the entire star system, being picked up by all robots within that star system. And once this data is received, the core chips of the robot will immediately burn out, and they will die immediately. Wherever the radio waves reach, the robots will fall in pieces, and none of them will survive. ”

Xiao Muhong's tone was always calm, without any emotional fluctuations. In this way, without the slightest emotion, he described a post-apocalyptic scenario for robots. The formless, incorporeal radio wave swept across the galaxy at the speed of light, taking death wherever it went...... If this plan can be implemented smoothly, the robots will not know how they died until they die.

Death comes so quickly, so much, how can they have time to start extreme evolution, and through exhaustive evolution to find a solution to death?

Can't find it, and don't have time to look for it, then...... Just die. (To be continued.) )