Chapter 32: Strong Barriers and Weak Barriers

"The civilization where Hei is located, perhaps because of its superiority on the path of evolution, inadvertently bypassed the norms of genetic philosophy, and thus became an interstellar civilization in one fell swoop."

It's easier said than done.

The ideology of the Medamos civilization is very good, but the congenital harsh environment has greatly increased the amount of aerospace engineering.

They don't have a cheating artifact like the Noah. Coupled with the omnipresent winds on the planet, it is very detrimental to the development of astronautics. Think about it, launch a rocket, and it will be blown away by the strong wind, how can this be played?

Even the laying of the space elevator has become very difficult.

If the space elevator were blown over by a strong wind, it would become a space-based weapon.

A large number of buildings and vehicles have to be placed below the surface, and the difficulty of such a life is unimaginable for earthlings.

For more than 300 years, clever octopuses have come up with one approach after another, from adapting to transforming nature.

More sophisticated weather prediction technology, harder ground materials, and more effective windproof design...... One invention after another, it came into being.

The construction of giant wind power generators has provided civilization with nearly infinite energy; The establishment of the city in the sky, which finally broke away from the storm area at high altitude, brought the possibility of large-scale space flight.

The entire civilization is struggling for the dream of the starry sky...... Struggling......

This is the sunrise of civilization......

When Yu Yifeng walked out of the discussion room, his mood was slightly heavy.

He does not think that such a "story" is useless.

In the current classification of cosmic sociology, more than 99% of the low-level civilizations are [representative civilizations of division and division of labor], including the former civilization of the earth.

The individuals of this type of civilization do not differ much from each other in intelligence and physical strength, and the individual differences are small. Through long-term development, they select some individuals through elections or wars to exercise the decision-making power of the entire civilization.

This kind of civilization can avoid too much concentration of power, which leads to deviations in social development, and also ensures individual interests to a certain extent.

But generally speaking, this kind of civilization will have a large number of internal contradictions due to the problem of selection methods.

Such contradictions have led to the fragmentation of many large and small regimes on a single planet.

The same is true for the Earthlings, the Knicks, the Indigenous Lizards, the Digg Civilization, and the Imperial Husband Civilization.

Violent infighting will cause them to waste a lot of social resources and energy on internal contradictions, making social efficiency very low.

Therefore, the probability of civilization in this category passing through the large filter is very low.

The Metamos civilization where Hei is located, as well as the new human civilization, can actually be classified as a "unified division of labor representative civilization".

This kind of civilization is an advance of the "representative civilization of division of labor".

They have achieved the unification of civilization and established a more reasonable division of labor mechanism, which can basically avoid war and violence among the same tribes, greatly improve social efficiency, and avoid unnecessary loss of resources and energy.

At the same time, the direction of civilization has been clarified, and the speed of climbing science and technology is much faster.

Such a civilization has a certain probability of integrating the resources of the entire planet and becoming an interstellar civilization in one fell swoop.

Yuriko beside her said lightly: "The classification of our two civilizations is the same, and the social effect is similar, but the system is completely different. In my opinion, our system is more reasonable, more resistant to interference, and has a certain assimilation power. ”

“…… We can move to a higher level of 'social homogeneity'...... They stay at this level and have a hard time progressing. ”

"Perhaps, most interstellar civilizations are similar to the Medamos civilization, with their own innate superiority, so they crossed that threshold. However, this innate advantage cannot play a permanent role in future development......

"The Medamos civilization is too dependent on its own collective consciousness......"

Listening to Yuriko's words, Yu Yifeng was silent and did not speak.

The Metamos civilization has an IQ and physical body far beyond ordinary humans, such a powerful innate advantage, but it still has not crossed the intellectual barrier.

"Success is also collective consciousness, failure is also collective consciousness......"

Life will always move in the direction of optimal survival. But this "optimal" is often not the result that the entire civilization wants.

When it became clear that he had reached the intellectual bottleneck, a war broke out in the Medamos civilization, and under the leadership of various great men, the faction that agreed to the selection of fertility won with difficulty.

"Amazing, isn't it? Civilization pursued such a policy, but it still failed. ”

In the 90,000th year after the implementation of the birth screening policy, generation after generation of screening has been ...... A group of beings that can block part of the "consciousness reading" are gradually born!

These individuals who "block part of their mental activities" are like fish in water in this society with clear hearts.

Because what they show is always good, good side.

They are not good people, but they can disguise themselves as good people; They tell lies, but others believe them.

Cunning individuals tend to survive better in a society that is pure.

And the Metamos civilization, which relies too much on mental reading, has not established a better talent screening mechanism. In the beginning, they were unaware of the existence of this group of individuals.

Therefore, even in the case of fertility screening, the success rate of these variants in reproducing offspring is greatly enhanced.

"The universe always makes jokes like that!"

"The original purpose of fertility screening was only to evolve more 'intelligent' individuals, and the results were ...... But it has evolved individuals who can shield the mind. Moreover, this kind of individual is difficult to identify by technical means, and the traits of reproductive offspring are also quite stable. ”

When there are more and more such beings, the original collective consciousness has been deviated to a certain extent.

Especially...... When such a life reaches the top of society and a series of incidents occur, a large number of suspicions arise between civilized individuals.

The clear society, which lasted for 100,000 years, was completely polluted.

At the end, Black roared loudly in the discussion room, soybean-like tears dripping from his eyes, "It's them, it's they who have caused the whole civilization to fall!" ”

"They are the ones who have caused the fragmentation of civilizations!"

"The seeds of doubt are planted deep in our hearts, and it is impossible to recover......"

"I have witnessed the most glorious era of civilization, but also experienced the rapid decline of time......"

In the end, Hei snorted and cried bitterly in the discussion room, crying bitterly, and he still had difficulty accepting this strange and realistic truth.

The good times are gone, it's easy to climb up, but it's easy to get down.

Others, worried, scattered.

Whenever he recalled his angry roar, Yu Yifeng was still secretly frightened.

When the fundamental system of a civilization is crushed, as powerful as L4, it will suddenly collapse, and the speed is staggering.

Even if a large number of individuals survive, it is impossible to return to the past due to various doubts in their hearts.

It can only be like this, gradually declining, declining. Even if there are branches that still exist today, they are not the Medamos civilization of the past.

"The civilization of Medamos, destroyed by the civil war of the collapse of the social system!"

Yu Yifeng asked unconsciously: "Then the question is, under the action of perfection element, what will we evolve into?" Does our system carry a more complex ideological impact? ”

"And ...... Do you think we've passed this intellectual barrier? The transhuman population now. ”

People were originally very optimistic that superhumans have higher IQs and greater potential, and with the rapid growth of technology, they can continue to improve their IQ in the future.

But now, after developing for so long, I am a little skeptical.

Improving IQ across the board, theoretically...... It's a very difficult thing.

Fundamentally, leaving aside the original and creating a more powerful life is as difficult as ...... Pull yourself by the hair and pull yourself up to the sky!

Is this possible?

Therefore, infinite iterative IQ, from the grassroots logic, seems to have a series of problems.

The intelligent Medamos civilization has been plagued by intellectual barriers for a long time, and they once put forward two conjectures: "strong intellectual barriers" and "weak intellectual barriers"!

They believe that strong intellectual barriers are a barrier that cannot be crossed.

Yes, insurmountable!

In other words, no civilization can fundamentally create a species that is "more creative" and "smarter" than itself, including iterating on itself.

The strong intellectual barrier directly denies the infinite iteration of the self of intelligence, and also denies the ...... Beyond all else, the existence of strong artificial intelligence.