Demolition Earth

Chapter 36 Analysis of Experimental Population
But the fourth type of people will always exist, as long as human beings still have curiosity and admiration for mysterious things, they will always exist.

Zhao Changqi's thoughts last night largely started from the investigation of the fourth type of people.

Throughout the experiment, the task system is a very important monitoring target. At the beginning, the tasks released by the VIPs are often the kind of immediate goals that are easy to do and easy to achieve, maybe just what to eat today Meals, just chatting with people on the road, or doing a small favor for others, etc.

Of course, the mission rewards are relatively low, generally ranging from a few dollars to more than ten dollars.

After the VIPs and the experimenters are more familiar with each other, the rewards for the task will increase, and of course the difficulty will also increase accordingly. The time to complete the task will also change from less than a day to a week or even a month, and the longest time may even be more than ten years. Ongoing tasks.

Not only the length and difficulty of the task, some tasks even have some hidden completion standards, as well as rewards for exceeding the task.

Probably influenced by many vulgar online novels, soon a concept was secretly circulated among the experimental members-hidden missions.

During the whole experiment process, VIPs would sometimes make a fortune for someone for no reason, or cheat someone a sum of money, help someone pursue a girlfriend, or destroy a person's stable family life...

After this type of phenomenon was learned by the experimenters, they quickly found an explanation. It must be that these people inadvertently triggered a key point of a certain type of hidden mission.

Then the fourth type of people has become the biggest executor of verifying this concept.

Because the fourth type of people is the most active in the entire experiment, because of the relatively high degree of organization, they often have a lot of energy and resources to invest in many attempts in the experimental process.

Throughout the experiment, this kind of people has an almost extraordinary obsession with completing tasks, just like those experienced game players, hoping to explore every detail in the game.

Those tasks that ordinary people can't stick to, and that last for several months or even longer, are often completed in the fourth group of people. After completing the tasks, many people also announce the rewards and completion process in their own organizations. It's like players playing a game share strategies with each other, and then motivate other players to explore new and possibly better ways to complete tasks.

In the exploration of the concept of hidden missions, an organization came into Zhao Changqi's sight.

It is called an organization, but it is actually an online group, similar to many other online groups. This online group also charges members a certain membership fee, makes uniform clothes, sets some slogans, and has some regulations on the behavior of members-almost It is said to be a small totem group, but it has not yet given itself a name.

What caught Zhao Changqi's attention was that for the first time in the task system, they proposed a concept in reverse to VIPs - group tasks.

The founder of this organization was a melanoma patient, and he was also one of the first members to participate in the S therapy. After he recovered, he realized that the S therapy in the name of the government was probably the conversation in the experiment. provided by VIPs.

So he established this organization. On the one hand, he wanted to inform other patients of the news so that they could have the opportunity to receive treatment. On the other hand, he himself formed a totem plot based on gratitude to the distinguished guests during the process.

At that time, the S therapy was still a small secret within the government, and the whole therapy was still in the experimental stage. Because of the confidentiality factor, the earliest founder did not clearly say what the S therapy was, but just let the members work hard to complete the task , so that it is possible to save himself - because his own treatment quota is obtained by completing a long-term task and hiding rewards.

Members of this group did not take it seriously at first, and a large part of the reason they joined the experiment was simply because the experiment could provide a certain amount of money—the treatment of terminal illnesses is usually very expensive.

They were the first type of people on the list of the supervision department, and they were not enthusiastic about the progress of the experiment and the progress of the task.

A big reason for joining this group is to hear about the experience of the group leader—but obviously they don't take this experience seriously, it's just a kind of psychological comfort.Just like many terminally ill patients like to read the inspirational stories of those terminally ill patients, but they will not practice and repeat their stories.

But gradually, another member of this group also accidentally obtained the quota for S therapy through the mission system. When he came back from the cure, the atmosphere of the whole group changed.

Almost overnight, all the members changed from the first category to the fourth category. They completed and exchanged tasks earnestly, and their fanaticism was unparalleled.

There was a task where a wealthy member donated tens of thousands to a few children participating in the experiment in the mountain area, but in order to complete the possible hidden tasks, he went directly to invest a few million in that mountain area, built a school, and hired teachers .

But this frenzy didn't seem to have much effect, and almost didn't trigger the quota for S therapy.

Soon the members invented a new theory - they believed that these people did this because they were too selfish, and they just completed the task for their own survival, so naturally they couldn't trigger it.So they started to unify and promised that all mission rewards would be given to other members.

But such an attempt still failed, and when everyone's enthusiasm gradually faded, another member got a place.

This member is an old lady in her 80s who can't read or understand anything. She joined the group because her family members came in to help her with treatment. After entering, she couldn't understand what other people said online. She doesn't understand the voice and task system in the headset, and this online world is too strange to her.

Apart from participating in necessary treatment and eating and drinking in the hospital every day, she never participated in any group activities.If it wasn't for her age, she should have been kicked out of the group.

But when others were racking their brains and trying their best to get a spot but couldn't, this old lady got it with just one simple act.

This old lady is a simple Buddhist. Although she does not know a single word, she can recite several Buddhist scriptures in the dialect of her hometown. According to her family, these scriptures have been her spiritual sustenance for the past few decades. She does not have any Different from other elderly people, they don’t like watching TV or listening to operas. When they are free, they just talk to themselves and chant scriptures. After reading a volume, they add a sentence silently, bless her family with good health, and bless her granddaughter’s grades Well, bless my son to get rich...

But she doesn't seem to care much about her body, and she never asked Buddha to bless her to recover from her illness.

After participating in this experiment, she also recited scriptures by herself in her free time, and did nothing else.

Then the behavior of the whole group changed immediately, and the old lady's behavior was imitated by everyone.Everyone believed that her monotonous behavior could trigger some kind of hidden mission.

At first everyone wanted to copy the activities of the old lady, learn her pronunciation, and read her scriptures... Later, they found that they couldn't do it. The dialect of the old lady seemed to be more difficult to learn than foreign languages, and it was difficult to master in a short time. Moreover, even the Buddhist scriptures can be hard and obscure to read. Even if they can barely learn to recite, it is difficult for many people to read the scriptures all day long like an old lady.

Everyone soon got a new explanation, thinking that the hidden mission is not to strictly copy all the details, the most important thing is the persistence of behavior and pious intentions. Many, many people have believed in Jidu, Muhammad and other totems, everyone's enthusiasm for doing tasks is gone, and instead, everyone began to quietly read totem classics, meditate, contemplate, and pray.

This kind of behavior has continued. During this period, some people died of diseases one after another, and new members joined in. Although the new members did not understand the origin of this set of behavior patterns, they followed the crowd.

And they were also very surprised to see the effect-almost two months later, among these praying members, a new quota was produced.

The member got the quota, but didn't keep it for himself, but voluntarily donated it to another member of the organization, and then, another thing happened that shocked everyone - yes, the VIP agreed After that, he was given another place.

This time he didn't give it away, but used it himself.

These two quotas directly fixed this behavior in the group.

Then, everyone agreed that in order to obtain more quotas, everyone would voluntarily donate them after obtaining the quota—they even wanted to control the quota through the entire organization and request group missions for VIPs.

After the request was rejected, they were not discouraged. They just agreed with each other that if someone got a quota, they would transfer the quota to another member of the group.

The long-term monitoring data later showed that the organization would get one or several treatment places at almost every interval, which seemed to have nothing to do with individual experimenters.

Because the behavior pattern of this group is very simple, after confirming that they will not have more actions for the time being, the supervision department began to reduce their attention to this group, but when they are subdividing the fourth group of people, they will Listed separately, mentioned as a particular example.

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After Zhao Changqi introduced the information and stories of this group, Li Daiyuan probably read the information on the other end of the phone, but he still didn't grasp Zhao Changqi's train of thought.

Zhao Changqi simply explained: "Praying is useful."

Yes, this is Zhao Changqi's conclusion. In addition to threats and transactions, prayers are useful to aliens.

In fact, praying is also useful to human beings. From ancient times to the present, the weak have always begged the strong, and human beings have always prayed to the gods. Maybe the latter has never been effective, but the former, at least from this behavior pattern, has never been divorced from human behavior. Judging from the fact that there is no option, this behavior is always effective - better than doing nothing.

It's just that this kind of behavior is not appreciated by people in terms of values, so many times, people always selectively forget this option.

But when it comes to critical times, someone will always remember this option. The reason why this option will be forgotten is that people are not desperate enough.

"But what is its effective probability, I haven't calculated it yet... I'm not good at mathematics, but I think you should have talents in this area.

Whatever the last number is, it should never be 0.I went to sleep first, and some results woke me up. "

There was class today, but Zhao Changqi was so sleepy that he simply ran away.

During the day, the student dormitory is very noisy, the footsteps of the students going back and forth, the sound of the basketball court activities downstairs, Zhao Changqi did not sleep very well, and when he slept until noon, someone called him to eat in a daze. After coping with it twice, I fell asleep again.

It was much quieter in the afternoon, which made him feel comfortable.

When he woke up, he looked at the sun, and it seemed that it was not very late, about two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

He felt a little hungry, but the cafeteria was closed now, so he rummaged through the tables of several roommates, and finally found a packet of instant noodles that was a little broken, and then unpacked it while boiling water.

Just when the water was just boiling, someone knocked on the door-this is a very rare behavior in university dormitories, because no one will knock on the door when entering or leaving the dormitory.

Zhao Changqi went to open the door and saw Li Daiyuan standing at the door. There was a man standing next to him, wearing a military uniform and glasses, dragging an open laptop in his hand. He looked very serious, but when he saw Zhao Changqi, he was very serious. smiled.

When they entered the dormitory, Zhao Changqi went over to flush water into a plastic bowl, and then turned around to see that the two of them had put their notebooks on their desks and had left their seats to wait for him.

Zhao Changqi sat over, and then the man in military uniform started to introduce.

This is the mathematical model established by collecting all the data just now according to Zhao Changqi's reminder. In simple terms, it is the model of the success rate of prayer.

Among the data sources, only a small part comes from the group mentioned by Zhao Changqi, and a large amount of other data is obtained from organizations controlled by other supervision departments. It is a proper term, called the behavior of benefit expectation-in simple terms, it is the behavior made for the benefit expectation.

Then there is another indicator is interest response behavior—that is, the response actions of VIPs.

Then he pointed to a coordinate map on the screen, which was the result of his work, and reported to Zhao Changqi.

This is a very simple coordinate graph. The horizontal axis is the behavior time of the experimenter, and the vertical axis is the response benefit—calculated in RMB, and there are many curves in each table, and each curve represents Different responding subjects—that is, to whom people pray differently.

Then he started clicking the mouse, and each time a curve appeared, he explained the object of this curve.

The first article is the prayer that people make to all the existences that have been determined and do not exist. In simplified terms, they are all kinds of gods and other pure ideas that human beings think exist or do not exist.

It can be seen from this curve that when the number of prayers is very small, the return of prayers is always almost 0, but when it reaches a certain order of magnitude, the graph shows about 10,000+ times, and the returns begin to appear, but they are pitifully small , it’s only a few cents when zoomed in, almost sticking on the coordinate axis representing 0, crawling like a powerless snake—most of them come from the same kind of human beings.

Yes, praying cannot move the heavens, but it can move the same kind.Click on this curve, and the curve is decomposed into dense data points. You can see that although most of these data points are close to the ground, some points are high above. It can be seen that in this group, there seems to be a A small number of people can detach themselves and reap the huge profits of this group's meaningless behavior.

The second is the prayers made by people to people, mainly, 99% of which are begging behaviors.

Compared with the first one, this curve is suddenly higher in the early stage, especially in the first few tens of seconds of the first prayer, you can often get huge profits-although the average is only a few tens of dollars.

But as time accumulated, the income from the behavior began to decrease, and finally stopped at more than [-] cents per second-this figure is obviously enough to survive, and even if you work harder, it is enough to get rich.

The third line is people's prayers to organizations, including various governments and various public welfare organizations. This curve is between the first and second lines, but the trend is relatively stable.

The fourth article is the prayer of people to the enemy. The enemy here is a broad concept, and the basic meaning is the owner of unstoppable violence.The income of this curve is negative, but it mainly examines the reduction of losses. If the reduced losses are converted into income, the average income of this curve is the highest-this is also in line with reality. We are always facing huge losses. Prayer is only used when there is a loss.

The fifth article is the prayer of people to the distinguished guests in the experiment.At the beginning, the response of this curve is sharp, and people will get some benefits, and then as the number of times increases, the benefits will increase, but when it exceeds a certain order of magnitude, about 200 hours, the benefits will drop sharply , and finally slide to the bottom step by step until it stabilizes at a position extremely close to 0.After zooming in on the curve, it can be seen that after more than 8000 hours, the income of this curve is already lower than that of the first one, and there is still a tendency to continue to approach 0, but it is not 0.
According to the data in the icon, in the up to 3 hours of supplicant data, it can be found that its income is about [-] cents per minute on average, but Li Daiyuan explained that the amount of money is temporarily based on the official severe treatment In terms of cost, if it is converted into the price of S therapy quotas on the black market, it will be almost ten to twenty times higher.

In other words, every hour of praying is worth more than a hundred yuan - which is higher than most people's daily wages!Calculated according to their level of investment, the average estimated income they pray for a day is around 1000 yuan, and 30000 a month.That is to say, as long as a group of 500 to 2000 people persists in such a pious way for a month, they can almost obtain a precious treatment quota-worth [-] million on the black market!
Although Zhao Changqi already knew that there would be roughly similar conclusions, when he actually saw the data, he subconsciously couldn't believe it.

He has always believed in the saying that it is better to ask for others than to ask for oneself, which seems to be completely overwhelmed by the data model in front of him.When he read the information before, he still felt that the members of these groups had such behaviors because of ignorance, but the data in front of him told him that their seemingly stupid actions were precisely supported by the most solid data. The choice was made blindly, but it coincided with the highest efficiency of economics.

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