Chapter 239: Technological Nihilism

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"Yes, anything is possible in the future. This could be bad. You said that in the future, everything can be connected, communication and the Internet will usher in a big development, and then artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, robots, computers will completely rule the world, think about what a terrible thing, autonomous driving may be used for murder, drones may be used for war, there are sensors and cameras everywhere in the home, the network is everywhere, and there is no room for human privacy and struggle at all. ”

"This is unstoppable, and the development of science can only move forward, unless it is destroyed. In the future, chips will be implanted in people's brains, mechanical bodies will be used to replace physical bodies, and genetic interventions will be used to treat diseases.

Everything is two-sided, and there are pros and cons. What we have to do is to strengthen ourselves, pursue the advantages and avoid the disadvantages. So, I think you're too pessimistic. Without these technological products, wouldn't nuclear weapons be terrifying? Wouldn't biological and chemical weapons be terrifying?

In the future, human beings will definitely not be able to be confined to such a small planet as Azure Star, there are too many contradictions. Therefore, in the future, in more distant space, when people and people, countries and countries are far enough away, they may all stop, and distance will produce beauty. ”

"You're right, the development of science and technology is a road of no return, a road that can only move forward and not retreat. ”

"In fact, in addition to the development of science and technology, there is also a development path, that is, the development of ourselves, science and technology always have to serve us human beings, when one day, science and technology can help us solve all our own mysteries, then human development will usher in another level. ”

"It's too far away, and the human body itself is more helpless than the development of science. ”

"You are too pessimistic, and a bit of technological nihilism, don't care about the meaning or anything, whether it is destruction or civilization, since we have embarked on the road of science, then we have to develop him, even if the world is destroyed tomorrow, today we must live a brilliant life, this is called living in the present.

Every era has a mission of each era, and it is a kind of happiness to complete this mission, as for the near future, whether human beings will destroy themselves or become zombies, let him go, the people of that era will complete the mission of that era, and we don't need to worry about it. ”

"Aren't you also a little negative, don't you often say that those who don't plan for eternity are not enough to make a fortune?"

"Haha, that's just the life I can see, but there are still many time and space that we can't see, you know, the infinite parallel universe, everything is meaningless. But if there is no meaning, there is no meaning, accept this reality, and then do not pursue any meaning, but to pursue beautiful people and things are good, no meaning does not mean that it is not important.

The development of science and technology will lead to the destruction of human beings themselves, which is absurd in itself, but we must face the absurd nature of the world, and fight against it with the greatest enthusiasm, and resist it soberly, this is to change our lives, this is our control over our own destiny, and we can also get satisfaction from this process, which is the greatest happiness. ”

"I feel that your life is very full and meaningful, and it is a fresh and interesting life to pursue different girls every day, and I can only find the meaning of my existence in racing, in the stimulation of this speed. ”

"I'm also confused, sometimes I feel that even if I can change this plane, but what about another plane, all the other planes, our influence is limited after all. After that, I didn't bother with it, because I felt that I was worrying too much, and living my life well was the most important thing.

Sometimes I think about it, in fact, meaninglessness is the greatest meaning of life. Why? This shows that there is no higher life behind us that controls our destiny, our life can be our own decision, and the meaning of life lies in how to make our life more colorful. ”

"Higher beings control us, like we observe ants living in glass bottles?"

"yes, how terrible that would be. So I sometimes think, the present is actually the happiest, in the future, maybe human beings will be enslaved by which aliens, loaded into spaceships in batches, and then transported to the interstellar mining, do you say miserable? I advise you, you still have to cherish our free life now, and live your life a little more exciting, so what, and talk about a vigorous love with someone as good as me, isn't it fragrant?"

"Is your so-called wonderful life to join your extended family and be your woman, or is it one of them?"

"Yes, this is a very wonderful life, in my place, I will definitely not be lonely, all kinds of excellent girl paper can collide with bright sparks, you can act in movies together, you can play games together, you can also do research and management together.

I will give you the best stage, the most perfect life, how wonderful. Imagine that one day in the future, we may build an underwater hotel in the sea, or maybe board a spaceship together to explore the starry sky, the future is full of infinite possibilities. ”

"I kind of know why someone has invested in you, I just don't have money, and I will also smash it on you if I have money. ”

"Not only have people invested in my business, but people have invested in me as a person. You don't care if you have any money or not, I don't have any money anyway. ”

"Aren't you afraid that they will follow you because they are greedy for your money?"

"Don't be afraid, my money was created by them and me, and they have contributed a lot. Besides, I'm not married, and if you really want to break up with me, of course I'll give enough in return, but that's just a drop in the bucket for me.

In the future, how much money I will have, you can't imagine at all. In the future, my money and my business will be injected into the family trust and will not be given to a single person as an inheritance, so there is no inheritance problem. It's not as complicated as you think, everything is the simplest, most comfortable, and most harmonious. ”

"Don't tempt me anymore, I haven't made a decision yet, anyway, I'm a post-80s generation, I'm still young, I'm going to play for a few more years. ”

"Well, I think you've graduated from graduate school, it's not too young, forget that you're a little genius, I didn't expect you to be less than 18 years old, you can join the work, it's really boring, I'm proud to have chosen you as the management of the company, you are my pride. ”

"Normally, my major is not complicated, and even if I am a genius, I will not be able to program the embedded operating system that appears on Tesla's driving computer. ”

"As I said, don't compare it with a pervert, that guy is a super genius programmer in the whole of Europe, and even in the whole world, and he doesn't even have more than ten of them. Your research direction is not there, you have to play to your strengths.

Tesla's motor, electronic control, and lithium battery all have a lot of room for improvement. For example, there is a lot of room for improvement in the charging speed, battery capacity, and safety of lithium-ion batteries. In addition to lithium iron phosphate batteries, you can also study ternary lithium batteries, semi-solid-state batteries and solid-state batteries, and the development of science and technology is endless. ”

"But I'm not a major in materials science, so I can only engage in motors and electronic control systems. ”

"Who said it, you are a genius, you are only 18 years old, although you chose to major in automotive engineering, but it cannot be said that you have no talent in materials science, you are still very young, I am very optimistic about you. Of course, whatever you do, I'm 100% behind you.

Motors, electronic controls, autonomous driving, and sensors are also very promising. For example, if the autonomous driving technology is successful, then a lot of car accidents can be avoided, as for the safety issues you said, it is better to say, there is an attack and there is a defense, we are still fighting at home, you can set up more obstacles for the attacker, by the way, you can also study quantum encryption communication, this technology is very powerful, but it cannot be cracked.

If autonomous driving uses quantum encryption technology to transmit information to satellites, it will be much safer, and maybe the GPS navigation system will also use quantum encryption communication to transmit in the future. It will be very difficult to crack. And we can develop artificial intelligence, the future is very beautiful, and we need to create it together. ”

"Okay, then I'll work for you for the rest of my life, if you dare to say anything about firing me in the future, be careful that I clean you up, I know martial arts." ”

"It turns out that you are still a violent girl, really, when will I meet your parents and give our affairs a decision, I still have a lot of projects to hand over to our family's ancient building repair company." ”

"You better keep chasing me, you have to wait until I am an adult, there are more than two years before I turn 20. Rest assured, when the time comes, we will naturally have the next step. As for the project, you can just talk to my dad directly, I don't care about these things. ”

Cang Yaozu wanted to complain, but his young age had become a problem, so wouldn't Emily and Scarlett be a bigger problem.

Lin Xiaoxiao didn't care what strange questions Cang Yaozu thought, she sent Cang Yaozu back to Houhai and drove away.

Lin Xiaoxiao didn't go home, she drove back to Tesla's research center, this chick is a workaholic, Cang Yaozu decorated a luxurious bedroom for her in the laboratory, and arranged security and secretarial staff for her, and there were special people to serve her three meals a day.

Back in Houhai No. 1 Hospital, Cang Yaozu was idle again, which is also what Cang Yaozu has always been pursuing, in the future, his companies and industries will be more and more, and he can't go to them all one by one, so from the beginning his strategy is to highly decentralize and effectively supervise.

Melissa and Ge Liqin have been building a large financial and legal joint supervision team for him, in order to free Cang Yaozu and allow him to spend more time with his family and girlfriends.

What Cang Yaozu is good at is the industry layout, which is his accurate investment vision, and Melissa's biggest strength is that she can get funds and help Cang Yaozu straighten out the capital flow of various companies. Ge Liqin specializes in law, and she is mainly involved in mergers and acquisitions, patent purchase and layout, and legal proceedings.

Robert Iger's ability to do so is that he oversees a range of entertainment companies including Universal Pictures, Universal Studios, Legendary Pictures, and Marvel Studios, as well as Hasbro, which recently took a controlling stake. The current Universal Group is also a giant, although it is worse than Disney, but the gap is not very big.

In the words of Robert Iger, there may still be some deficiencies in anime, and there is also a gap between TV networks and Disney's ABC, but the number of Universal Studios is still much ahead of Disneyland, and Disney is not at all comparable to Universal in live-action movies.

Robert Iger took advantage of his personal relationship with the DreamWorks Big Three to win the distribution rights of DreamWorks films, and Universal and DreamWorks worked closely together. Iger and Jobs also had a good personal relationship, after all, they were both Jewish. If Universal can buy Pixar, then Universal should be able to beat Disney in the comics. Pixar, DreamWorks, and Blue Sky Studios are in hand, and if they can't beat Disney's animation, then Cang Yaozu should beat Mr. Robert Iger.

In the afternoon, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang called Cang Yaozu, saying that the research and development of GPU is nearing the end, and soon the world's first GPU that supports T&L light and shadow conversion technology will come out, Cang Yaozu is a major shareholder of Nvidia, holding 40% of Nvidia's shares, and has made a breakthrough in research and development.

Nvidia's success is predictable, Lao Huang was born in Silicon Valley and has worked in AMD and LSI Logic for nearly ten years, this guy is still very good at R&D. On the phone, Lao Huang discussed with Cang Yaozu that he planned to promote Nvidia's listing on the NASDAQ, and Cang Yaozu naturally would not object. I believe that with the addition of graphics processor GPU, NVIDIA's market value should not be low.

Cang Yaozu will definitely not reduce his stake in Nvidia in the short term, and even ten or eight years may not reduce his holdings, with the advent of the video era, GPUs will become more and more important in the future. The toothpaste factory does not have much competitive pressure, squeezing toothpaste every day to play, the performance of the CPU is too slow, and the opportunity for the GPU to show its skills has arrived.

Many people don't know the difference between CPU and GPU, CPU is an excellent leader with a variety of functions, is an all-rounder, is a handsome talent, its strength lies in scheduling and management, strong coordination ability, and relatively average computing power. The GPU is equivalent to an employee who "has a lot of computing power" who accepts CPU scheduling, and is a professional and a general.

CPUs are good at controlling the overall situation and other complex operations, while GPUs are good at performing simple and repetitive operations on big data. To use a figurative analogy, the CPU is a professor who does complex mental work, while the GPU is a manual worker who does a lot of parallel computing.

GPU is designed and manufactured for graphics processing, the graphics card is a brush, obeying the command of the CPU to process graphics images, and GPU is a brush with a brain, which can perform almost all data operations related to computer graphics, therefore, GPU is also known as graphics processor, with such capable employees, the CPU is liberated.

In the future, GPUs are getting better and better, and they are starting to be not satisfied with just processing graphics images. CPU is good at logic control and serial operations. Unlike general-purpose data computing, GPUs are good at large-scale concurrent computing, and most of the GPU calculations are computationally intensive, but not technical, and have to be repeated many, many times.

Just like if you have a job that requires you to calculate hundreds of millions of additions, subtractions, multiplication, and divisions within a hundred, the best way is to hire dozens of elementary school students to do the calculations together, and one person to calculate a part, anyway, these calculations are not technical, purely manual work.

And the CPU is like an old professor, the integral and differential calculations will be calculated, that is, the salary is high, the salary of an old professor is up to twenty elementary school students, if you are the boss, which one will you hire?

GPUs are like this, using a lot of simple computing units to complete a large number of computing tasks, pure crowd tactics. So GPUs are especially suitable for crypto-cracking, mining, and a lot of graphics calculations. These calculations can be broken down into multiple identical simple small tasks, each of which can be assigned to a primary school student.

The speed of the GPU depends on how many elementary school students are hired, and the speed of the CPU depends on how good the professors are hired. The professor's ability to deal with complex tasks is overwhelming for elementary school students, but for less complex tasks, it still can't withstand the crowd.

Of course, the GPU of the future will also be able to do some slightly more complex work, which is equivalent to upgrading to the level of junior high school students and high school students. But you still need the CPU to feed the data to your mouth before you can start working, or rely on the CPU to manage, after all, a country cannot have two masters, and there can only be one master.

If Cang Yaozu wants to engage in artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, then it is inseparable from the graphics processor GPU, neural network algorithms, and machine learning, which are inseparable from the GPU, and in the future, the GPU will be further developed, and the corresponding tensor processor TPU and neural network processor NPU will also be developed.

Cang Yaozu's follow-up layout is still only a long-term vision, and he needs to wait for him to solve the problems of the semiconductor industry before he can start research and development. Therefore, at this stage, Cang Yaozu is still laying the foundation, and the method he adopts is the deep integration of production, education and research, grasping the university alliance, establishing a number of scientific research enterprises, investing a lot of money, and constantly accumulating talents and technologies.

In the process of developing the semiconductor industry, Cang Yaozu not only has an accurate vision, but also a huge amount of money, money can run fast, and seeing far can ensure that there are no detours, which is Cang Yaozu's biggest advantage now. Only when there is money can we engage in scientific research, only when we engage in scientific research can we do business, only when we do a good job can we sell products, only when we sell a large number of products can we have money, and only then can we feed back to scientific research through practice, and the application ecology is particularly important in the chip industry.

The high threshold of the chip industry is mainly high in several aspects, such as chip design, material technology, processing technology and packaging and testing. Sometimes the chip design can be done well, but the processing link will be stuck in the neck, which will also lead to a complete failure. This is a whole application ecology, which is suitable for the barrel effect and cannot have shortcomings.

With chips, they must be applied to actual products, and then they can be continuously verified and improved. Only in product iteration after product iteration can the final success be achieved. The chip industry is a system engineering, which is the difficulty of the development of the chip industry.

It's a bit far, continue to talk about the graphics card and GPU industry, at this stage, Cang Yaozu gave NVIDIA a breakthrough direction, and asked them to use the RISC-V architecture as much as possible, and when Nvidia grows up, it will play a key role in Cang Yaozu's various industrial layouts, which achieves Cang Yaozu's purpose, he can't study every technology at this stage, or pull more allies to create a technology industry alliance, which is his best development path.

The next few years will usher in a major reshuffle of graphics card manufacturers, and the pattern of ATI and Nvidia competing for hegemony is about to be staged, and Cang Yaozu just needs to watch the show.

At this stage, Cang Yaozu has not made great strides into the hardware field, what he has to do is to give full play to the first-mover advantage of USB flash drive and MP3 player in the industry, firmly occupy these two markets through technical barriers, and consolidate the development foundation of mountainside technology, which can be regarded as a small product to leverage the big industry.

For Cang Yaozu, hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute is really not blown, every minute he has a lot of interest to repay, and every minute there is also a lot of profit generated, as for which one is more, it is really difficult to calculate, anyway, the sentence time is money, in Cang Yaozu, it is really a real truth.

It stands to reason that Cang Yaozu should not be distracted, but there are already many people engaged in scientific research, Yang Sizheng, Ni Guangnan, Yang Chongshan, they are all contributing to the science and technology industry in China, even if Cang Yaozu does it, it is impossible to do it better than them, and Cang Yaozu will naturally hide it.

And football, it can be regarded as a big hobby of Cang Yaozu, he can have the opportunity to contribute to the football career of Huaxia, he is still very concerned, this is both money and effort, it is finally a good time to harvest. To be honest, for Chinese football, Cang Yaozu feels that he has a lot more to worry about than he does in Tottenham Hotspur Club, if he does this, he can't help the Huaxia team qualify, then Cang Yaozu will really be sad.

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