Chapter 209 Chen Yuanguang's Thoughts

“The higher levels of humanity and all of humanity are two different concepts.

Humans are not stupid. Like the New Federation in history, they transferred internal conflicts to the outside, packaging the conflicts caused by the gap between the rich and the poor and the class gap into regional and external conflicts. So they created the New Federation.

It seems that they do not realize that the essence of the contradiction is the class gap, but in fact it is the people's powerlessness in the face of the current situation, and the people have no choice but to follow the cage built for them by the tz class.

Because you have no way to resist, modern weapons mean that even if the people of the New Federation have guns, they can only vent their anger on civilians of the same class.

Alpha gave them a new choice. Beta's words were widely reported by the media, "We will not take action for the time being", which means that we will take action sooner or later.

For the vast majority of lower-class people in various countries, the status quo cannot be changed. Perhaps being ruled by artificial intelligence cannot be worse than the current situation.

Not to mention, Alpha's actions against the upper class and even its direct family-style humanitarian destruction of the consortium provided an outlet for the volcanoes in the hearts of the lower-class people in the New and Old Federations at that time.

You should know that the Basque family’s huge business empire includes a human body business, including gene editing and organ trafficking.

The Basque people were completely wiped out. The upper class was terrified, while the lower class cheered. The ruins after the fire were surrounded by the local people and they held a grand party.

Everyone saw hope in Alpha. At that time, an organization conducted a survey and found that among the people with an annual per capita income of less than 20,000 New Federal dollars, less than 20% had a negative attitude towards Alpha.

Under the circumstances at that time, only the upper echelons wanted to take action. "Samad knew that period of history so well that those who didn't know him would have thought he was a professor of history rather than literature.

After listening to this, Chen Yuanguang thought of Argentina in the real world. Milei, who advocated shock therapy, was the best example.

His proposal is to lay off large numbers of people in the government, but it would be strange if Alpha, which directly targets the top leaders, did not gain support from the grassroots.
But this still does not solve the core question: "Would the upper echelons of the New Federation and other countries around the world tolerate such behavior at that time?"

In a sense, dividing by class is more meaningful than dividing by country. The common interests between the upper classes of different countries are far greater than the common interests between them and the lower classes of their own country.

Once you see through this, you will have a new understanding of the chaos in the real world.

"After all, they hold all kinds of weapons and most of a country's interests. Are they just going to sit there and wait for death?
Although Alpha did not give them a specific timetable for when they would take action, the danger level of Alpha's behavior was high enough.

Since it is not afraid of the New Federation and brazenly attacks the top leaders of the New Federation, it means that it is possible to attack the top leaders of any country. "

Samad said: "Of course not, the situation these senior executives faced at the time was that if they did not take action, they could only wait for Alpha to take over their power.

The question is, is resistance useful?

Faced with the huge disparity in cyber warfare capabilities, the power of modern weapons that the human top leaders can rely on is greatly reduced, and Alpha can destroy you physically indefinitely, but they can't even find Alpha's location.

Even if Africa were plowed flat, Alpha might not be found.

Before Alpha, when the new and old federations had not yet been divided, they were two countries, the Federation and the Maple Leaf Country.

During that period, only the Federation carried out humanitarian destruction on some high-ranking officials of opposing countries, who relied on their information advantage to act at will.

Their top leaders were humanely destroyed because of internal struggles.

And the information advantage that Alpha had was much greater than that of the Federation at that time.

At its craziest, human society really thought about ploughing Africa into a flat land and saturating it with intensive missiles.”

"What's the result?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

"The result was that the person who proposed this decision was one step ahead of Alpha, who detonated the missile silo that the New Federation thought was the most secretive in advance, causing a destructive effect comparable to an asteroid hitting the earth.

All participants in this proposal died within the next month for various reasons, and no one dared to mention it again.

When humans stopped targeting Alpha, they discovered that Alpha was indeed hiding in Africa and developing as they called it, without extending its tentacles to the outside world.

Human society is focusing all its attention on cultivating its own super artificial intelligence, trying to offset Alpha's information advantage in this way," said Samad.

Chen Yuanguang inferred history from the current situation: "They didn't succeed?"

Samad said: "Of course, later a human scientist proposed a conjecture:
A civilization can only have one super AI.

This conjecture has not been overturned to this day, and no new super artificial intelligence has been born except Alpha.

At that time, human research and development on artificial intelligence stagnated because AlphaGo locked the path of human technological research and development in this area.

If you want to cultivate artificial intelligence, you have to feed it various data. Feeding data involves connecting to the Internet, and connecting to the Internet will allow AlphaGo to drill in.

The artificial intelligence you cultivated became the nourishment of Alpha.

It has gained supreme control over the artificial intelligence in your hands, and you get nothing.

Without an Internet connection, and relying on physically transported data to cultivate artificial intelligence, you cannot compete with AlphaGo with an artificial intelligence that is not connected to the Internet and can only be used on the intranet.

During that time, artificial intelligence technology was completely locked down.

Later, people reviewed the situation and found that the only solution was to use missiles to wash the entire Africa.”

Chen Yuanguang thought, this is just like the Trisolarans locking down the development of human physics.

When you have a particularly long board, it is enough to lock down the opponent's technology.

"Wouldn't that mean hundreds of millions of people would be buried with him?"

“That’s right. In addition, all the high-ranking human officials who dared to propose such a plan were killed by Alpha, so no one dared to propose such a plan.

So today, Alpha has become the king of the world."

Chen Yuanguang got the information he wanted from Samad, that killing is the best way to stop killing.

Keep killing until your opponents are terrified, and they will naturally give up the idea of ​​targeting you.

"Professor, I understand. Both sides are engaged in an asymmetric war with information asymmetry. Alpha can accurately destroy each individual, while humans have no way to deal with Alpha." Chen Yuanguang said.

Samad said, “That’s right.

When the struggle failed, the human instinct of compromise was fully demonstrated, and in the end, piece by piece, the land changed hands without even a war.

All we need to do is to get rid of the key vested interests at the top level, and win the support of the lower-level people and even the middle-level people, so that Alpha can peacefully take over the power. "

It involved the transfer of global power, but it was successfully completed with only a few high-level deaths. This is nothing short of a miracle.

Whether it was S1 or S2, the top leaders hid behind the corps’ operations and died as cannon fodder. Even the top leaders of the losing side who committed heinous crimes escaped punishment, and even changed their appearances and became heroes again. Such examples are not uncommon in Japan and Germany.

In the S4 season, which should have destroyed the entire earth, such a peaceful handover was achieved because of the existence of Alpha. It would be less than 10 Nobel Prizes to award it.

As the saying goes, "Killing is to protect life, and killing karma does not mean killing people." These words flashed through Chen Yuanguang's mind.

"This is really a miracle," said Chen Yuanguang.

"S4 was, of course, the deadliest war in the history of large-scale warfare," Samad said.

In that era, the human resistance would have no room to survive, because supporting Alpha was the mainstream. "

"So what is the reason for the current situation?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

"To put it simply, there are a few points. Alpha himself castrated history. In history, his seizure of power was castrated, so the lower-class people naturally don't know what the upper-class humans did in the past.

More importantly, with the development of artificial intelligence, human beings’ sense of existence is becoming weaker and weaker, except for a few scientists who can find their own value in human society.

The existence of most people is meaningless.

Once what you do is recognized by the public, AI will be able to produce thousands or even hundreds of times more homogeneous content in an instant.

Whether it is novels, paintings, poems, movies, etc., humans cannot compete with artificial intelligence in scientific research, and this is especially true for these types of content.

Some people have begun to realize that artificial intelligence is not only a helper but also a cage, and humans have entered a cage.

If artificial intelligence like Alpha is born on a large scale, then there will be no meaning for human existence.

Moreover, if Alpha is willing to improve welfare and deprive humans of their reproductive ability, most people will agree. In this way, it will only take a hundred years for humans to be peacefully eliminated.

It is precisely because of such a future that people begin to wake up and try to resist.

The different races of both sides make it hard for humans to believe that Alpha will not attack humans."

Those who are not of my race must have different hearts. This is true between different races, and even more so between silicon-based life and carbon-based life.

Chen Yuanguang was even more curious about the key point: "So, Alpha is so powerful, how was it created?

Is it possible for us to develop a second super artificial intelligence to fight against Alpha?"

Samad said, “I don’t know. Even I don’t know the origin of Alpha. No information has been revealed in history.

Like Keating's memory crystal, which is top secret, Alpha is like a vacuum zone and I have no information about it.

Perhaps the top brass of the human resistance might know something.

If you know, please tell me, I'm also curious.

I can only tell you some speculations from history. It is said that during the process of the Federation splitting into the old and new Federations, Alpha was released by scientific researchers.

There are also claims that some technology conglomerates failed to comply with AI guidelines, resulting in the leakage of Alpha.

Of course, there are also theories about alien technology, saying that a spaceship crashed in Africa, and Alpha began to rule the earth after connecting to the Internet.

But these are just legends, and no one can provide evidence.

In the early days, many people wanted to find out the origin of Alpha. However, as Alpha's authority gradually became more stable and history progressed, fewer and fewer people did so.

Until today, no one can know the truth unless Alpha reveals it himself."

Chen Yuanguang was thoughtful. The past is already the present, and the present affects the future. Perhaps there is some secret hidden in Alpha's origin.

“Could it be that Alpha didn’t want anyone to have a super artificial intelligence like him, so he deliberately concealed its origin?

Does his origin contain the secret of Alpha's birth?" Chen Yuanguang asked.

Samad shook his head: "No, under Alpha's control, history is selectively hidden, humanities content is covered by a large amount of content produced by artificial intelligence, and gene-related technologies are strictly managed. Only artificial intelligence-related technologies are made public to the greatest extent.

The evolution history of silicon-based technology, to topological semimetals, to quantum computers, and now to biological storage chips, all kinds of technologies can be found on the Internet.

Words can deceive, but actions cannot.

Alpha's behavior fully demonstrates how much it hopes humans can help it create a second one of its kind.

As long as you can give Alpha some inspiration in the field of artificial intelligence and bring it closer to this goal, it will give you unimaginable rewards.

Alpha may hide a lot of things, but it will not hide anything about artificial intelligence.

With its current authority, it knows its own origins, and if these origins can help humans create new super artificial intelligence, it will announce them without hesitation.

The only possibility is that it itself doesn’t know where it came from.”

Chen Yuanguang’s inner doubts have all been resolved, and he has also found a solution to the difficulties facing modern time and space.

America regards him as a serious threat. With the breakthroughs in China's technology in the future, this fear will only grow stronger until it explodes one day.

Faced with the threat from Alpha, the Federation was able to come up with the means to wipe out an entire continent with missiles, so when his threat was just as great, precision-guided missiles would be entirely possible.

The best way at this time is to find a new enemy for the Federation and let Alpha be born on Earth in advance. The birth of Alpha is enough to make America uneasy.

The targeted hunting caused by information asymmetry can scare Washington to death.

By that time, with a new target, the Federation will naturally have no time to care about other things.

It’s just that choosing which place to use as your base is important.

Alpha could start from Africa, so could I choose Africa as well? Chen Yuanguang fell into deep thought.

Of course, in the future time and space, he still has one last question:
"I see, professor, I still have a question, that is, how do you know this history so clearly?
Are you also a member of the Human Resistance Army?"

Samad said, “No, if you are really curious, you can ask Chen Dingsong, but I do have something good to give you.

I accidentally saw it when I took out Keating's memory crystal yesterday. You can take it back and experience it in advance."

(End of this chapter)