Chapter 774: Thucydides Trap (two chapters in one)
This matter is of course important and extremely important. On the one hand, it means that the hemisphere civilization has completed the final puzzle. As long as there is enough time to accumulate, becoming a level 5 civilization will be a foregone conclusion... On the other hand, it means that humans also have a complete set of technology, because most of the experiments of hemisphere civilization are provided by the Illusion Laboratory. Humans have controlled the way to modify their thinking!
When Zhang Yuan was writing the entire report, he felt that he would tremble for a while from time to time.
He didn't know whether he was excited or afraid, or both... This kind of relationship was very complicated. Yes, even if it was plagiarizing the path of hemisphere civilization, so what if it was?
If humans can find a good path on their own, that would be the best.
What if it can’t be found? According to Zhang Yuan’s idea, copy it and you must also copy out a level five civilization!
"...According to this progress, after all the memory templates are innovated, hemisphere civilizations will produce exponential knowledge inheritance iterations! Soon, all their new populations will be able to have one or two thousand years of work experience. What an advantage is this, and I believe everyone should be clear about what it means."
Even if the racial value of hemisphere civilization is not high, the working memory of one or two thousand years is too large. Instilling these memories into the minds of the next generation can completely make up for the intellectual gap.
The new memory template brings all-round improvements.
When Zhang Yuan submitted this report to the Science Council, everyone felt deeply shocked and urgent.
It is really not easy for hemisphere civilization to take this step... So what about humans? What should we do?
Zhang Yuan continued to report on the stage: "...The larger the amount of memory instilled, the higher the probability of the birth of idiots. However, after hemisphere civilization has the new technology we provide, it can partially offset the probability of the birth of idiots. Moreover, hemisphere civilization will not slow down its progress because of the birth of idiots, which is something we cannot do..."
"And as time goes by, they can update the memory template again, so that all the qualities of the new generation will once again make a leap. For example, based on the memory volume of two thousand years, add another two thousand years and four thousand years of memory! If it is not enough, come another two thousand years and six thousand years of work experience memory template..."
"As long as there is enough time, this kind of progress is endless, and there is no need to worry about sinking..."
"This is also one of the reasons why we think the level five civilization is powerful, and iterates upward and evolves continuously. The level five civilization will advance at a higher speed, and this speed will not slow down, but will become faster and faster!"
Everyone sitting in the seat was silent and thinking.
His allies suddenly completed the puzzle of level five civilizations and had the potential for infinite progress. This day actually came so quickly!
The new human civilization has not yet chosen its own path... The new human civilization has never known how to go this step, even if it already has such technical conditions.
When this fact was in front of us, all members of the Science Council thought silently.
This is a kind of pressure, a kind of pressure.
People have hesitated for too long when choosing the direction. Now hemisphere civilization has emerged, forcing people to choose.
"Wait a minute..." Li Zhendong opened his mouth and asked, "Are you saying true? Will it really be like the tone? This problem is a bit serious."
Zhang Yuan said: "How could it be a joke? However, they have only completed the update of one memory template now, and there are at least another 365 memory templates to be completed in the future... They may even create more memory templates to get rid of the problem of diversity in thinking patterns."
A deputy captain suddenly asked, "Professor Zhang, how long will hemisphere civilization surpass us?"
Everyone raised their heads one after another, which was a very realistic problem.
Zhang Yuan sighed: "Simple estimate, if we do our best to help them iterate memory templates, we can complete all the iterations of templates in about 100-130 years. From an original that was a bit unsatisfied with the times, they will fully evolve into new templates, and then they will have a earth-shaking qualitative change."
"After five or six hundred years, no more than a thousand years, as this technology becomes more and more mature, a large number of geniuses with genetic memory knowledge are born, these geniuses will shorten most of the technological gap between us except for the virtual world. After this, the technological strength of both sides may be reversed. Of course, this is just a simple estimate, and it is hard to say what will happen..."
"So, it's a thousand years!"
Zhang Yuan stretched out a finger, "The slowest is the slowest, a thousand years later, the other party surpasses us. The fastest is only five hundred years."
"This is just the first qualitative change."
"As for the second qualitative change... the other party completes this plan and surpasses us, and will not stop because of this. They will still iterate their knowledge until a technological singularity, that is, they can fully siliconize and transform, complete human-machine combination, and achieve thinking acceleration."
"At that time, we will gradually have the light speed thinking like strong artificial intelligence, and then we will have another technological explosion, leaving us far behind. This is the second qualitative change. Only by completing the acceleration of thinking can we become a true level five civilization, a state that is difficult for us to understand."
The conference room fell into silence again. Sentimentally, the new human civilization wanted to be the boss of the alliance forever, and did not want a reversal of strength.
But rationally speaking, is it because the other party may surpass humans, that they deliberately get stuck?
This kind of thinking is too narrow.
If you plug the other party's technology, it can indeed be extended for a long time... But what's the point? It's just to stop the other party's progress?
Another scientist asked: "What is their goal? How to modify genetic philosophy? Can the current genetic philosophy mechanism be used to realize the speed of light thinking?"
The main reason for modifying genetic philosophy and thinking mode is to adapt to the speed of light thinking.
Zhang Yuandao: "They created a whole set of idealized saint principles, so the whole set of patterns will be modified in that direction. After they have the light speed thinking, the code of conduct will be like a memory template, full of the absolute justice they think... At that time, they will lack some emotion and have more rationality."
"But everyone can rest assured that gratitude and revenge are definitely an act that makes them despise. Therefore, the hemisphere civilization is strong and will not in theory cause harm to us."
"This set of thinking can accelerate and achieve light-speed thinking without any problem."
The saint-like thinking of the whole nation sounds a bit secondary, but it is indeed a good idea. The premise is to clearly define what is the so-called saint, what is the so-called good, what is the so-called bad, what is absolute justice.
The captain asked, "Is the saint mode? Can we learn from this path?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned. This issue will only cause endless quarrels in the human community, because everyone has different views. But hemisphere civilization has reached a consensus in the past history.
"It's okay to be there... but no matter what worldview, only a few people can agree with it. We can prepare this alternative carefully."
Zhang Yuan cleared his throat and said, "In short, I seriously oppose using technical means to get stuck in the other party's memory template. That's right, the other party really needs our help now... We can't become a level five civilization and cannot find the way ahead. We are not capable of ourselves and there is no need to get stuck in others."
"I seriously opposed stepping into the so-called Thucydides Trap..."
Everyone was silent. Zhang Yuan saw that the ministers all lowered their heads and didn't know what they were thinking.
The "Thucydides Trap" was a term in the earth's civilization, referring to a newly emerging great power that would inevitably challenge the existing great power, and the existing great power would inevitably respond to this threat, so that war became inevitable.
War is not only limited to military, but also includes technology, trade, finance and other aspects. At the beginning of the 21st century, the science and technology trade war between China and the United States was a typical representative of the Thucydides Trap.
Now the new human civilization is facing a similar dilemma.
Zhang Yuan continued: "Anyway, according to my point of view, if we still cannot take this step in the next thousand years under the stimulation of hemisphere civilization, we probably have no hope. Holding our thighs honestly or plagiarizing the other party's pattern is the king... The so-called three people must have my teacher. If we don't do it, we can only learn from others."
Zhang Yuan said something very rude, but that's the case. There are civilizations in the world that are stronger than humans, so what's the point of being stuck with your allies?
The model of hemisphere civilization is indeed capable of plagiarizing it, but the entire society cannot do it at present, and it is even more impossible to allow huge amounts of idiots to be born, so there is no way.
If you can't do it, you can only blame yourself!
Li Zhendong nodded and supported Zhang Yuan's point of view: "It is indeed as Professor Zhang said, if hemisphere civilization succeeds, we humans will also have a complete set of corresponding technologies, and may even have them earlier. At that time, technology is fully ready, and what we face is just how to modify our thinking, what is the big goal of civilization, and this philosophical problem."
"So I also oppose using technical means to get stuck in the other party's progress."
Yamamoto Ichiro stood up and said slowly: "Or, if you really can't do it, you can split a sub-civilization and accomplish this."
This idea shocked everyone again. There were many people who opposed it, and it was a sub-civilization that was splitting up. What a wonderful idea... As for now, it was even more difficult to achieve.
This meeting did not discuss anything effective, but only let everyone know that this fact is emerging.
Unreal Laboratory will still help the hemisphere civilization update memory templates and will not get stuck in the other party's technology.
In just half a day, the news that the hemisphere civilization completed the last piece of the puzzle has slowly spread within the new human civilization society.
All related reports are cautious and not much is revealed.
But the fewer words, the bigger the matter is. There is no need to say more about the tension and shock of the people.
"In addition to nickname, scientists unanimously agree that hemisphere civilization has transformed the potential of level 5 civilization into facts!"
"Just give them enough time to cross this threshold!"
"What did you say?!"
"Really and false!"
In fact, everyone has a sense of superiority, or even a source of happiness, but everyone has different levels of superiority. When facing weak races, humans will feel superiority, and when facing a hemisphere civilization that always holds their thighs, they will also feel superiority, but they will not be shown in their daily lives.
But now I heard that hemisphere civilization has begun to undergo a qualitative change, the civil society naturally produced some different voices, such as stopping cooperation and preventing the other party from making progress.
This type of voice has received more criticism from society.
"Some people's dark minds always show shame on others, haha. Losers always hold on to this idea."
"Oh, the Thucydides trap has begun to exert force, a typical symbol of the civilization of the decay!"
"I would like to ask, what is the Thucydides Trap?"
"A civilization that loses self-confidence and self-esteem will always become a depressed person... Shouldn't we speed up our pace to avoid this kind of reversal of strength?" Although these voices are a little radical, there is still some truth...
There are also some jokes and voices that take the opportunity to joke: "It's time to implement more radical policies... In the next thousand years, let's quickly combine human-machine. The potential of humans is limited, and I don't want to be a human being!"
This group of stupid netizens still don’t understand the heavy burden faced by the entire civilization, nor do they know the hardships that people in the hemisphere have put in for it.
The troubles people face may not necessarily change with the passage of time...
This change requires an opportunity, or most people are swaying, and can only rely on the determination of a small number of people.
...
In this way, amid the noisy and noisy sound, the next destination of the alliance was about to arrive. The fleet had been sailing at high speed in the void for more than 40 years, and it was time to pause and carry out a major maintenance.
On the way to the edge of the Milky Way, humans have investigated three yellow dwarfs along the way, but none of them found any interesting new things.
In fact, when the star road map was planned, the alliance fleet's plan was basically yellow dwarfs. Because yellow dwarfs are the most suitable stars for life development, the probability of encountering novel events is higher. Anyway, they have to stop to maintain and rectify the whole thing. It is better to find some smart species to communicate.
However, the route planned by this star road map is completely unknown, and the probability of losing is very high. Now this is the fourth yellow dwarf.
Chapter completed!