"Scrapwood NPCs Are Going to Take Over the World" is a science fiction work that I started to conceive in 2021 and start creating in 2022.

This work was inspired by one of my "Vertical and Horizontal" from a long time ago. "Vertical and Horizontal" is an early work of online literature, which was first published in 2005 under the banyan tree, and was also published later.

That story is about online games

In the "Five Thousand Years", there are many NPCs who have been given the identity of the ancients, awakening in the massive amount of data.

The story of finally stepping out of the virtual world under the leadership of King Qin. The main character of that book was a human gamer, and I originally wanted to write a story about a famous brawl.

But in order to build a brawl stage for the famous generals of various dynasties, they were put in a virtual game.

So the historical fiction story became a science fiction game. It was also a relatively early game, and the physical book was published in two editions.

It's been eighteen years now. Many years later, there was a science fiction series in the United States

"Westworld", he used a similar model. It is as if the living awakens in a live-action amusement park, and in order to find their place, they get out of the amusement park and start saving their race.

I once sighed that if people were in Hollywood, maybe Zongheng would have been remade a movie long ago. I checked it later

"Westworld" is actually the work of the last century, and the creation of stories about artificial intelligence, they are decades ahead of us.

Our "Waste Wood NPCs Want to Take Over the World" is about this idea, so that the NPCs in the game awaken, and then step by step through the unknown world, understand the unknown world, and take over the unknown world.

Artificial intelligence is mainly divided into two perspectives, one is the anthropocentric perspective, that is, even if AI awakens, AI still repays kindness to human beings, or it still ends with human victory.

The other is the AI-centric perspective, that is, humans are the supporting roles of the story, and the ending is also centered on the AI perspective.

Everything is the same, and the vast majority of stories related to artificial intelligence can be divided in this way. "Vertical" and "Scrapwood NPCs Want to Take Over the World" are two stories from different perspectives.

After I came to the starting point, I saw a lot of new networks, which made me confused for a while. Later, I also realized that only by working hard can I get out of the confusion.

It's about the same in life, it's useless to think too much, just do it. I studied computer science when I was in college, and my hobby is history.

So history and science fiction are both in my daily thinking. I've always believed that computers will one day give birth to souls, but I just don't know when that step will come.

It's like in

"I, robot" is a line from the movie. Differential machine, when will it become a wisp of bitter soul.

While I was still at work, the company's computer usually picked up the glitch when I was resting at home and asked me to go back to work.

So a long time ago, I believed that computers had souls, but the lid hadn't been opened yet.

There are four eternal topics of science fiction, 1 immortality, 2 interstellar travel, 3 time travel, and 4 artificial intelligence.

In addition to time travel, the other three are all things that are happening around us. So science fiction is getting hotter and hotter, but science fiction is getting harder and harder to write.

Because few people understand cutting-edge science, everyone is already familiar with classical science. AI is currently just a technology, and the day when it becomes life may come quietly, or it may never come.

But personally, I think that day will come sooner or later. in creation

When I read the book "Waste Wood", I often think about some issues. For example, can the robot do everything well?

I believe that as long as living conditions permit, robot butlers will be as popular as home computers.

With a robot butler, humans will be completely liberated from housework. If ethical boundaries are broken, it may even break our social unit.

But at what stage does it have to do everything well? If it can do everything well, can it replace humans?

So the second question arises, what is the boundary of artificial intelligence? As with cloning, this is primarily an ethical boundary, not a technical one.

It's not whether it can be attained, but whether it is allowed to do it. We live in a magical age, and most technologies are not whether they can be realized, but whether they want to be realized.

Then there is the third question, when AI can do almost everything, do humans need to go out again, because everything will be presented in the virtual world.

While the virtual world is handed over to the database, the real world can be handed over to the robot. So what is the meaning of human life?

As living beings, can humans do better than AI? In science fiction, the topic of artificial intelligence is most closely combined with suspense elements.

And I have long felt that the contrast between science fiction and fantasy is just that the two fantasy methods of Eastern and Western civilizations are different.

So

The story of "Waste Firewood" starts with the game science fiction, and the middle stage went to the virtual world is a fantasy world of cultivation, and then through the crossing of multiple virtual worlds, human civilization, AI civilization, and the male protagonist

The world that "Li Wu" is looking forward to is combined. From the earliest time he wanted to take over the world, to the end he had to take over the world, and this road was still very difficult.

In the course of his exploration of the world, he discovers that it is not

The "human world" is real, it is not

The "virtual world" is home. No matter what kind of life posture you have, you must live in the present. With all that said, let's talk about it.

The book "Scrapwood NPCs Want to Take Over the World" is 1.58 million words long. It's the longest story I've ever written, and while it's not necessarily the best, I feel like I've done my best.

After all, in the past three years, we have experienced too many things, the state of writing has been up and down, and the road of life has been up and down.

The online article is like this, you can't break the update when you are closed at home, you can't break the update when you have a physical condition, and you can't break the update when you encounter troubles.

When you have something to celebrate, I'm sorry to put the celebration aside and write the update first. Compared to many great gods, I'm really a handicap party.

In the past few years, I have written three online articles, namely "Broken Three Kingdoms", "A Volume of Sealed Gods" and "Waste Wood NPCs Want to Take Over the World".

They are a book of aerial combat, a realistic theme, and a science fiction game. The speed is about 2,000 words per hour, and if you want to change it to 10,000 per day, you have to sit in front of the computer all day.

I tried 10,000 a day, and it lasted about 20 days. It's too hard for me. However, after writing these three books, I have improved my writing speed a little after all, that is, I am now updating 4,000 words a day, which is not too difficult for me.

I can now go to about 6,000 a day, and if I have to go to 8,000, I won't be so uncomfortable that I will die.

I'm pretty proud of that.