On the first day of 2018, the world entered a whole new phase.

The formal armistice between Cuba and the United States became the first war in the United States to end in the form of "peace talks" in the 21st century.

At the same time, several fusion power plant projects in Europe have been fully completed, including not only the large-scale project of Engineering 2013 CNF in Russia, but also several small and medium-sized projects in many parts of Europe.

With the completion of these power stations, it also marks the beginning of a new energy era for the whole of Europe.

The consumption of natural gas for fuel has been greatly reduced, but the gas pipelines that have already been built cannot be wasted, so the parties have begun negotiations to build a hydrogen metal processing plant in Europe, and this demand has led to a new round of deeper exchange of interests, and to some extent to ease the economic tension.

On the other hand, the world's largest "United States" is on the verge of fragmentation, as expected by the new North American Alliance, many organizations have begun to try to replicate their development trajectory, and the federal government, which has lost absolute control of the military, can only exhaustively "suppress" everywhere.

Rather than describing this situation as a "process of freedom", the media used an extremely shady formulation:

"Eat the flesh and blood of the skeleton before the corpse completely decomposes."

In a sense, this formulation does objectively depict the psychological motives of those "insurgents", and also depicts the final result of this "corpse".

A giant falls, but what kind of new life will its flesh and blood nourish?

Nobody knows.

Chengdu, in the office, Chen Nian sat in front of the computer, looking at the so-called "planning plan" on the screen, while frowning and saying to Wang Jiancheng on the side:

"So for so long, you've come up with such a thing?"

"How can this be called a plot? If you don't say it, I thought you copied Huang Wen from some illegal small website. ”

"Goblin tribes, adventurer girls, magical continents. Really, the taste is too rushing, so take it away. ”

Hearing his words, Wang Jiancheng scratched his head embarrassedly, and then replied:

"Then I don't have time. I've been following the quantum computing project to do all kinds of adaptation programs for them, you don't look at this thing is simple, but the number is large, and it takes a lot of thought. ”

"In particular, I have to do special optimization for various functions, and I can't do 12 hours a day."

"So, isn't that just a casual one?"

"Anyway, the core of what we want to do is not the so-called plot, gameplay, etc., but the interaction between people."

Chen Nian rolled his eyes and retorted mercilessly:

"If there are people who really think of interaction as the first source of fun, then what we need to do is not a large interactive game, but a large public chat room."

"Under this approach, what can be cultivated is not a general-purpose AI that can achieve rapid growth, but a single language model."

"Interaction is the core, but the various tasks involved in interaction are the base."

"You have to have a context that the players who are involved in it can simulate, develop, and interact with based on that background."

"Otherwise, what they create is a castle in the air, and it won't do any good for AI training."

"Okay."

Wang Jiancheng sighed, lay down on the sofa with his back facing the sky, and after thinking for a moment, he said:

"If that's the case, the only background we can choose from is probably 'Genesis', similar to games like Spore and Evolution."

"Why don't you just set up all kinds of cosmological constants and let the participants start from scratch?"

"Nope."

Chen Nian continued to shake his head.

"The directivity is too poor, if they come up with a dinosaur world, then our AI decision tree will be completely biased."

"It's okay to be open, but at least it's going to be open under the premise that humans are dominant. History. ”

"Divided into several parts to open up, ancient times, feudal times, modern times after the Industrial Revolution."

"Make different worldviews, each worldview sets an upper limit for development, allows participants to interact within a certain range-—— gives them limited freedom."

Hearing Chen Nian's words, Wang Jiancheng thought for a moment, and then replied:

"It's a good idea, I can find a team to make the framework and fill in the basic settings."

"However, the development cycle of the entire main program and art is long, and it is conservatively estimated that it will take three years and five years."

"You don't have to make it so complicated, just make it a text adventure game."

"Word adventure? Yes? Is it really a pure running group game? ”

"Otherwise, maximize the cost-effectiveness ratio."

Although Chen Nian doesn't play games much, it doesn't mean that he doesn't understand, in fact, the text adventure category is not only to reduce costs and shorten the development cycle, but also the most important reason is that it can greatly improve the speed and accuracy of AI training.

"Okay, then it won't be long, I'll go to Professor Chen to ask for a budget, and then I'll prepare to develop."

Talking about this, Wang Jiancheng couldn't help but be a little excited.

He sat up and quickly keystroked to record the main points as he spoke:

"This thing is really interesting, not to mention the main function of AI training, even if it is simply a game, it has a high level of playability."

"I'm really curious to see what the players who are called the Fourth Scourge can do with it. Maybe we can develop into the cosmic age faster than we do in reality? ”

Chen Nian was a little funny, it was obvious that Wang Jiancheng's understanding of gamers was not as good as his own.

He shook his head and replied:

"You can pull it down, if there is no reward and punishment mechanism to restrain it, there is a high probability that they will toss to the destruction of the world within a few days, and after restarting, they will continue to destroy the world in another way. It's also part of the training, though. ”

"Let them toss, if one day, the world we created evolves its own reward and punishment mechanism, it means that our training goals have basically been achieved."

Evolve your own reward and punishment mechanism?

Wang Jiancheng nodded thoughtfully and did not answer.

This statement sounds a bit scary, but.

It's a bit exciting.

What kind of final form will such a game evolve into?

Skynet?

Or a mirror?

In short, it's definitely not a fast-food game to pass the time

On the other side, in the imperial capital, a discussion is underway about Xinghuo, or Chen Nian's latest proposal.

The title of this proposal is "Ideas for Large-scale Environmental Transformation Using Redundant Energy," and the name alone gives you a clear idea of what the proponents are trying to do.

Holes were dug in the Himalayas, wells were dug in the Tarim Basin, canals were built into Lake Baikal, and dams were built in the South China Sea

Only a project of this size can be called a "large-scale environmental transformation".

However, of course, as a professional proposal, it does not directly throw out these assumptions, but argues from various angles the future development of mankind in the field of energy, the growth rate of available energy, and the dynamic balance between social development and energy consumption.

From such theoretical inferences, the proposer has come to the conclusion that:

At that time, the speed of human energy production will be much higher than the speed of energy consumption, and under the premise that basic science has not been fundamentally innovated, these energies will be uselessly dissipated before they take effect, and will be dissipated into heat energy in the vast and infinite universe.

In order to avoid this situation, Huaxia, or the entire human race, must prepare in advance, especially to guide the changes in ideology and cognition in advance.

The "cost performance" and "cost-effectiveness ratio" of the project are still important, but the priority must be moved back, and the "net income" will become the highest standard for whether the project can be implemented and whether it should be implemented.

Against this backdrop, the proponents have proposed so-called large-scale environmental transformation projects, which aim to improve the earth's environment as much as possible, raise the upper limit of the population, and lay a stronger foundation for the future of mankind.

Although the whole report is not long, it can be said to be impeccable in terms of data, models and inferences, and after reading the report, everyone in the office also nodded again and again.

The old man sitting in the middle put down the thin report in his hand, and then spoke:

"Comrade Chen Nian's proposal is still very valuable, and in terms of strategic thinking, it can be said that it coincides with our previous discussions."

"What is even more rare is that he uses a higher-level 'long-term vision' to look at our future, instead of staring at those five-year goals and ten-year goals like us antiques."

"There's one sentence in the proposal that really reminds us that we need to be prepared for a change in ideology."

"This is a very typical example-—— in the future, do we really have to look at the time of the existence of the human race in terms of decades and hundreds of years?"

"If we take a person's life as an analogy, when we are young, we always feel that time flies very slowly, and a year is a very long time."

"But after entering middle age, time is getting faster and faster, even if it is five years or ten years, it is still fleeting."

"Now, with the breakthrough of various basic technologies, human beings can also be said to have officially entered the youth stage from infancy, and our grasp of 'time' also needs to be adjusted."

Hearing his words, the others in the conference room echoed him, and after a short free exchange, someone spoke:

"I still agree with the leader's statement - the vision must be opened and the mentality must be enlarged."

"Comrade Chen Nian's idea is very good, and the best thing is that he does not need to occupy additional resources in his first phase of the plan, and it is completely supported by the resource conservation in the early stage of multiple projects."

"It's good to do this, save more and use more, do more and use more, maximize the use of the resources available in your hands, and get the most results"

"On behalf of the economy, I have expressed my position first, and I support Comrade Chen Nian's proposal."

As soon as his words fell, most of the people in the room burst into laughter.

"You have a budget like this, as long as it doesn't cost your money, everything is negotiable. However, the leader is right, we should indeed take a long-term view. ”

"The first-order experimental scheme involved in this proposal is still very imaginative-—— of course, what I mean by imagination is that it is a little less executable."

"Increasing air humidity and slowing down surface water evaporation through large-scale condensing systems?"

"To be honest, if it was not Comrade Chen Nian who proposed this plan, but other technical personnel, I would have thrown the proposal in his face."

"If you want to do that, why don't we just make a Dyson ball, that thing is more worth trying."

"It's not worth it, what Comrade Chen Nian wants to solve is the problem of energy redundancy, and if there is no breakthrough in basic science, there is no point in building a Dyson sphere."

I'm just giving you an example!"

The man shook his head helplessly and continued:

"I mean, such an idea is of course good, but Comrade Chen Nian was obviously misled by the case of the artificial oasis of the Northwest Base."

"In fact, such a scheme is only applicable to glacial meltwater areas that already have green conditions, and it is just a drop in the ocean for the vast desert."

"Even if a small-scale water cycle can be formed, under the action of evaporation, it is not enough to affect the surrounding environment, and the idea of 'step-by-step, step-by-step greening' that he envisions will not work."

"Intuitively speaking, at a certain moment, vegetation growth and death will reach a balance, forming a dead line that cannot be crossed in the desert."

"When the time comes, no matter how much resources we put in and how much energy we consume, we won't be able to move forward."

"Because that's the most basic law of nature."

"Therefore, my suggestion is that on the basis of the adoption of the proposal, we must discuss and optimize the specific implementation plan accordingly, and we cannot blindly implement it, let alone rush forward."

After he finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in the conference room.

No one can argue with his suggestion, because what he says is the real reality.

This is a world of science and an era of science.

Even if Chen Nian has brought countless scientific and technological wealth to the country in an "unscientific" way in the past, it cannot erase the basic laws that have always existed.

So, the experimental solution, may it really not work?

"So how do we go about changing it? How to optimize? ”

"Abandon the condensation scheme and change to the water diversion scheme that has already been considered?"

"The water diversion plan is actually very feasible, after all, we have a lot of experience in infrastructure."

The discussion began again, and just as the discussion became more and more intense, a cough suddenly sounded.

With a smile on his face as the old man who spoke at first, he looked around for a while, and then spoke:

"The suggestions of all comrades are very good and very referential."

"Of course, this proposal is problematic and, as I have just said, has a whimsical component."

"However, Comrade Chen Nian actually proposed an 'advanced version' of the plan."

"What I have now is an additional proposal."

"And the content of this proposal is genetic optimization."

"Biological Gene Editing and Optimization Technology Development Program."

"I suggest that you also take a look at this proposal, and after reading it, maybe we will have a new understanding of the environmental transformation plan."

(End of chapter)