Deep Space Fleet

Academician Yuan Ding turned back when he heard their conversation.

He sighed softly: "Do n’t you find it ridiculous and helpless? These days, we have been discussing how to repair the technical pitfalls left by our predecessors. But there are bigger pitfalls around us, and they are also social hazards and human hazards."

"This kind of hidden danger is hidden in our civilization. I do n’t know how much. Racial conflicts, ideological conflicts, any small problem may lead to a big problem. Even if the decision-makers know it, they do n’t know how to make it. solve……"

"Do you know how much we paid to develop space? We cannot stop development because of some hidden dangers."

It is difficult to predict what will happen in the next tens of thousands of years.

Hey, what can we do? Without these people, how long will the development of Europa be extended?

很多 Many people on earth may never know that some people are silently paying for their good days.

Zhang Yuan sighed deeply and nodded.

The limitation of the eyes of human beings is only his life. From the perspective of informatics, most political policies are laid out according to the "greedy algorithm", that is, the local optimal solution in the current state.

Future interests must give way to immediate interests.

I want to lay out for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years, it is really beyond the limit of human intelligence.

He doesn't feel sentimental about it. Even if he were to be a decision maker, he could only choose this way.

Since it exists, it must have its rationality.

越 The more complicated and developed the civilization, the smaller the individual's strength will appear. Even if he is the leader of the coalition government, what can he do? To the present society, various forces have constraints on each other, and there are many things that cannot be changed by one person.

After chatting here, Brother Zhao suddenly said, "In terms of future development, in the New Civilization School, there is an esoteric and complicated subject that is still in the dream so far, called New Civilization History. I don't know if you have heard of it.

"History of New Civilization? History?" Zhang Yuan was not the first to hear the term, but he didn't know much about it, and his ears were curiously raised.

青 Zhao Qingfeng smiled, "This discipline is very complicated. If you explain it in one sentence, you want to find a global optimal solution for civilization, not a simple greedy algorithm that takes one step at a time."

"Let me give you an example. The process of civilization and personal growth is actually very similar."

古代 In ancient times, due to the poor living environment, a teenager with a little energy would be pulled to work. Although it meets the current survival needs, it also stifles future benefits. This training method is called "local optimal solution strategy", that is, considering only the present, not the future.

In a modern environment, a teenager will receive compulsory education. Education doesn't seem to have current benefits, it's just pure pay. But the knowledge learned will not exert greater social value until one grows up.

A person's life span is only a hundred years, and there are a large number of samples. It is not difficult to plan and find a relatively good solution in the sense of life.

But what about a civilization?

Civilization is a collective of all populations. It has a very high degree of complexity. Its life span is thousands of years, which completely exceeds the life span of a single human being.

But this is what the new history of civilization wants to study.

"In the early days of the development of civilization, the population was sparse, technology was backward, and there was always a risk of death. It was equivalent to human infancy."

"Baby, do you know? The worldview and values ​​have not yet matured. Therefore, a civilization is also the most plastic in the early stages of its development."

"What about us ... has inherited a lot of inheritance." Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "Is it the kind of rich second-generation baby?"

"You're right." Brother Zhao's expression became serious: "Of course we have a deeper connotation, which is equivalent to being a rich second generation, but it does not mean that we can squander.

"What do you think is the most important thing for a civilization?"

"Of course technology!" Zhang Yuan replied immediately.

师 Brother Zhao smiled and made an expression of "I knew you would say that".

Immediately afterwards, he shook his head again: "Technology is equivalent to the external power of civilization. You know the external power? As long as you are willing to spend effort, you can quickly become the type."

Zhang Yuan frowned and said, "Quickly? The development of science and technology is not so easy ..."

"Crash here refers to Xiaocheng. Some simple technologies, if not limited to patents, should not be difficult for other countries to imitate?"

"Okay ..." Zhang Yuan temporarily accepted this statement.

"For a civilization, what is more important is internal strengths, including human environment, political system, public ideology, etc. These things need to be cultivated slowly. If they want to be fast, it is basically impossible."

"These internal strengths actually determine the upper limit of the development of science and technology, that is, the key research content of the history of new civilization ~ www.readwn.com ~ Zhang Yuan has always been less interested in politics, but it is also slightly affected by various cultural courses in the university period. Know some.

Like some countries in South America and Africa, the public's ideology is biased toward hedonism, and it's enough to be satisfied with food. Under this relatively lazy ideology, the entire country is naturally very difficult to develop, and can only be used as a place of production of raw materials.

In East Asian culture, people have a strong sense of anxiety and are willing to fight for a better tomorrow, even for the happiness of the next generation.

So in this cultural environment, these countries have to go to the forefront of the world with historical inevitability.

So why is there a completely different human environment?

"The history of the new civilization you said should be biased towards the liberal arts?"

"No! You are wrong, its ultimate essence is mathematics!"

"Ah ?!" Zhang Yuan stared in surprise, a little unknown.

Brother Zhao smiled, "... According to the viewpoint of the history of the new civilization, the inherent history of the entire civilization is divided into a large number of key nodes, and each node contains a major historical accident that occurred at that time. The history of the previous node will be Will have a certain impact on the latter node and the entire network. "

"You can think of it as a neural network."

想法 The idea is intuitive, and Zhang Yuan can easily understand it.

"When there are fewer critical nodes in the early days of civilization, the final output of the network is easily changed, that is, a single great person can have a very great impact on it."

但 "But with the increase of the population base, the increase of information and culture, there are more and more network nodes, and the influence of a single genius on the entire network will be less and less."