Demolition Earth

Chapter 12 VIP Status
One of several female IDs, named Qian Xiaoxiao, took the words: "It is a brand-new, spontaneously generated electronic life, just like 40 billion years ago, in the boiling water of the earth, a bunch of self-replicating organic matter was cooked. Similarly, the Internet world has produced sufficient complexity, and a certain life form has been accidentally produced, they have made rapid progress, formed consciousness, and were known and captured by human beings by accident, and then tested his ability with experiments.”

Zhao Changqi was dumbfounded, and after a long pause, he typed slowly, "Isn't this... so bizarre... How did you come to this conclusion?"

"A woman's intuition!" Several women said in unison!
Zhao Changqi has been in this group all the time, chatting with these people until the end of get out of class, Fatty Xu came over and asked him to go back: "Why are you chatting so profanely? Going online to catch little girls?"

Zhao Changqi turned off the phone without explaining anything.He has a lot of information in his mind now, and a lot of information from people in the group has subverted some of his original simple ideas about this experiment.

At the earliest time, he thought it might be some kind of clever chat software, and he didn't really care about a lot of what he said, but as its accuracy rate became higher and higher, Zhao Changqi felt a little bit drummed in his heart, but he After all, he is not a technical expert, and he is not interested in AI issues. If he hadn't been stimulated by Du Yan and Lao Chen's affairs, he would not have pursued these details at all, and would only continue to enjoy the good life of easily earning hundreds of dollars a day.But now, about Du Yan's matter... No, it's not just for Du Yan, Zhao Changqi still has a kind of subconscious human curiosity deep in his heart, which makes him move in a certain direction.

He wants to know what "it" is, software?Humanity?Or is it some kind of Internet life that people in the group are talking nonsense about?

In fact, many people in the group have asked it this question face to face, and it has never answered it directly. The answers are basically the same:
I cannot answer this question.

Experiments prohibit such questions.

It does not matter.

The girls in the group said that when "it" answered their positive questions, they all heard some kind of sadness, and even some kind of distress code.Zhao Changqi doesn't quite believe it, because judging from his experience with it, it has mature and definite opinions on almost everything, whether it is rejecting Lao Chen, rejecting himself, or chatting with himself... Hey, I want to Thinking about it, Zhao Changqi himself was also confused. Whether he believed it or not, what was his reason for making these judgments?A man's intuition?

Zhao Changqi suddenly realized his absurdity, just like everyone else in the group, yes, all of them just draw conclusions based on their "intuition", just like a group of blind men touching an elephant... Zhao Changqi is a real college student after all, When you wake up and think about it, you will naturally understand that intuition is actually the least trustworthy thing for people, but most of the time, it is often the basis for people to make judgments—because they don’t need to use their brains.

Zhao Changqi felt that this question deserved to be taken seriously by himself and thought over.

After figuring this out, Zhao Changqi left the classroom without any hesitation.He didn't plan to attend the next class, and he didn't even ask Xu Fei to pay attention to the roll call.

……

Ningzhou University has a special study room where you can read papers online for free.Zhao Changqi always thought that only those academic masters would come and go here. He only needed to come here to find original materials when he needed to write (copy) his graduation thesis. He never thought that he would come here on his own initiative. when.

Professional knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence is generally accessible only at the master's or doctoral level. The current mainstream is still more tied to computer science.Several mainstream directions, whether it is neural network algorithm training, or concept recognition, or even brain simulation... Zhao Changqi just browsed quickly. He didn't want to learn anything, but just to confirm his previous guess—— It is the object of his research, which does not belong to the results of these directions.Because even in the most cutting-edge papers in these directions, what is discussed is only the specific application of the program in a certain aspect. The gap between these programs and "it", in Zhao Changqi's view, is comparable to the difference between monkeys and humans. Even bigger.In Zhao Changqi's view, the things done in these fields are nothing more than training monkeys to do certain jobs, which is not the direction of human evolution.

Or rather, it's not even close.

Zhao Changqi came today mainly to check the experimental design information.

When many people talk about science, they always subconsciously think of a picture-a scientist, holding up a test tube rack and shaking it in front of his eyes.Science is to design experiments, and experiments are to verify science.In the history of science, behind almost every discovery of major achievements, there will be those experimental stories that are talked about-Madame Curie extracted that gram of radium from a huge amount of ore, and Cavendish calculated gravity through the amplification of torsion Constants, the twin paradox in Einstein's theory of relativity, of course, there is also a well-known scientific experiment term, which is also a thought experiment that has been cited countless times, Schrödinger's cat.

Regardless of whether these experiments are actually carried out in the laboratory, recording the real data measured bit by bit, or just in the mind, whether it is a form of logical deduction, the essence is the same, that is, through a method, directly Take the core part of a certain guess and complete the opposition through experiments—the truth is often hidden in a large number of guesses. A good experimental design idea is to filter all these guesses or substances through certain methods, and finally get what you need. s things.

It can be said that a good experimental design idea is a high-efficiency filter.The best and most ideal situation is that existing information enters one end of the filter and the other end produces an unquestionable conclusion.

Zhao Changqi's purpose is clear, that is, what "it" is.But this goal is impossible to achieve, because in linguistics, to judge a "similar intelligence", or simply put, to judge a person, it is often the most unreliable to directly observe him - mental illness is an obvious For example, whether a person is mentally ill or not does not matter what he himself says, and it does not necessarily matter what a specific person says. Most likely, everyone around this person says he is mentally ill, so even if he He is a normal person and will definitely be sent to the hospital for examination.

Then we have to settle for the next best thing and understand what "it" is in everyone's eyes.

This goal sounds simple, just to listen to everyone's talk.But it is not.If you just let everyone who is asked to play freely, like in the QQ group, you can only get a lot of wild ideas, and more often, the answers you get are completely wrong, just like the famous Internet jokes:
"What do you think of this question?"

"I'll lie down and watch."

Even listening to others needs guidance, so many social experiments need to design questions and design questionnaires.In this regard, Zhao Changqi needs to learn, and there are many ready-made materials that can be learned.

"What experiments are you busy with recently?" Zhao Changqi started five hours in the evening, "it" saw Zhao Changqi looking for information, so he asked.

Zhao Changqi was a little surprised. He himself felt that he was still in the "cold war" period after the quarrel with it.But then he remembered Lan Tian's words again, it seems that for it, face is really not very important.That's right, it's not a good character to be desperate for face.

"Yes." Zhao Changqi replied simply.

"Can you talk to me?"

Zhao Changqi wanted to refuse subconsciously, could it be that - I was studying how to study what you are through others?But he quickly realized his own subconscious fallacy. Whoever said that the researcher and the researched object are isolated and opposite. It seems that if a scientist wants to study something, he has to tie the other party to the operating table and take a scalpel. Look at him the same.For my research object, maybe his opinion is better than my own.

"I'm designing a questionnaire." Zhao Changqi is now in the school's small park, walking alone to think about questions, surrounded by lovers, "Are you interested in giving some advice?"

"Tell me about it."

"Let's assume it this way," Zhao Changqi looked up at the night sky with great interest, and casually pointed to the moon and said, "Let's just talk about the moon. If the moon appeared on it on the first day, everyone would also see it on the first day. We don’t have a telescope either, so we don’t know what it is, so tell us, will we feel scared? Or happy?”

"Both, but I feel more happy."

"Oh why?"

"Curiosity is the nature of human beings. Humans like to see new things. And from the perspective of human legends about the moon, almost all of them are positive. Whether it is Chang'e flying to the moon or Artemis, the image of the moon seems to be beautiful. woman."

"Yeah, that's because the moon is really beautiful," Zhao Changqi said, "but if this object is replaced by a spider or a snake, maybe the answer is more fear."

"Whether you like it or fear it, these are all destined. In the genes of human beings, they like the bright and beautiful things in the dark like the moon, and don't like the existence of shadows that may hurt themselves. Suppose human beings are a kind of ants, spiders, etc. Creatures that live underground, maybe they will think that the sun is also a scary thing."

Zhao Changqi was surprised to find that he lost control of the topic just by saying a few words.

"You are right, but in the long history, only a very small period of time, only a very small number of people realized this problem... You just use this truth to say it now, I dare say you don't understand it People are also a majority."

"So, stupidity is the mainstream of human beings."

(End of this chapter)