Thought Tampering
Yamamoto hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, I'll help you activate the prison administrator's authority. There shouldn't be any security issues."
There are also a certain number of staff in the virtual prison who are responsible for maintaining order, but not everyone has administrator rights.
With the help of several doctors, Zhang Yuan lay down in a hibernation chamber and closed his eyes.
[You are entering the virtual world No. 0701101, please wait...]
A few seconds later, Zhang Yuan had a completely different perception.
When he opened his eyes, he found that he had entered the virtual world. In front of him was a bright room with two security robots performing tasks. When they saw Zhang Yuan, they all saluted.
Zhang Yuan pushed open the door of the room and entered the prison.
The human government's management of these prisoners of war is relatively good. The various facilities in the prison are quite complete. Each prisoner of war has a separate compartment, one or two hours of social activities every day, and a certain degree of entertainment equipment...
Zhang Yuan walked directly to a room, where lived a former leader of the New Human Soldiers, the one with the highest status detained here.
The middle-aged man looked a little haggard and was sitting in a chair in a daze. On the table was a copy of the latest newspaper of the new human civilization, which recorded the final result of this war.
He saw Zhang Yuan walking into the room and raised his head. The group leader easily recognized Zhang Yuan, a famous scientist.
"Hello, Mr. Zhang."
Zhang Yuan asked: "What's your last name?"
"My surname is Chang."
Zhang Yuan asked mercilessly: "Why did you choose to take up arms and resist your former mother civilization? Do you know how many people were sacrificed because of your rebellion? Your family will also be ashamed of it... Of course, in order to reduce social chaos, we can only declare to the outside world that you have died in the battle."
"I...I am here to protect and guide our civilization onto the right path!" The man named Chang became excited and said loudly: "I truly understand that joining the Aleph civilization is a wise choice. This civilization is more tolerant than we imagined, and its ultimate goal is to build a perfect home on a galactic level! Every intelligent life can choose its own direction in life in a perfect home."
"Actually, our behavior in the past was too narrow-minded. That silver-white robot did not kill anyone. Everyone was just unconscious... but we destroyed it..."
Zhang Yuan was stunned. The other party didn't seem to be lying.
Mr. Chang even retorted angrily: "It wasn't until later that we really fought back in order to prevent the entire starry sky expansion plan from being destroyed... Do you know what you have done?! Once this launch base is destroyed, the series of The galaxy-wide plan may be delayed for decades!"
"Each of you knows that there are so many civilizations living in dire straits, not knowing the purpose of their existence or the meaning of life, and just living inactively. Intelligent life should not be like this!"
"The Aleph civilization will bring them real hope! When the ability is strong enough, shouldn't we do this?"
"Now you have destroyed this hope... No, you can't destroy this hope, you just extended it for a few decades. Everything is in vain... Our plan will eventually come true!"
As he talked, this guy became fanatical and began to brainwash Zhang Yuan, vowing to build some kind of "Galaxy Home", a place where everyone is full of hope!
Instead of like now, most civilizations are enjoying themselves and sinking in their home stars, and the entire galaxy is lifeless and looks empty!
"In other galaxies managed by the Noah faction, their prosperity is much higher than that of the Milky Way. If measured numerically, the number of fourth-level and even fifth-level civilizations is ten thousand or even one hundred thousand times higher than that of the Milky Way!"
"...Compared with this ambitious goal, what does it mean to abandon everything now? If humans want to become a fifth-level civilization, don't we have to abandon most things? With human nature and racial values, we can become Level 5 civilization?"
"Of course not."
This paragraph contains a lot of information, and even involves extragalactic galaxies. The Aleph civilization is only a fifth-level civilization in the Noah faction. Humans can't even deal with the Aleph civilization, let alone the Noah faction behind it. When he thought of this, Zhang Yuan felt his scalp numb, and all kinds of thoughts came to him.
"But you are not doing the right thing by opening fire on your fellow citizens."
"No, Professor Zhang, you should know that there are many times when only using fists can better transform the opponent."
Zhang Yuan scratched his hair. He had to admit that what this guy said made sense, and he really thought so and was not lying...
Even the civilized purpose of Aleph civilization may be like this.
A very lofty goal, although the method is quite barbaric... But if it is not barbaric, can it be reasonable to transform the entire galaxy? Obviously not.
Zhang Yuan shook his head and abandoned these random thoughts. He asked again: "But, Mr. Chang, your thoughts have been tampered with by the Aleph civilization? Don't you know it yourself? You have such thoughts because of tampering with your thinking. Caused by this! Originally, you were a normal human being."
Mr. Chang said: "I know my mind has been forcibly changed, but I think the current situation is very good. It has never been so good! I have found the meaning of life... I am not betraying humanity, but I think this This is the true correct path for mankind! I will always walk along this path."
"Even if you put me in prison, you will eventually prove that I am right... Joining the Aleph Civilization is the best choice, and it will sublimate our entire civilization!"
Zhang Yuan has nothing to say to such fanatics. The excuses arising from different stances are meaningless.
He was silent for a long time and then changed the topic: "After those robots captured and transformed you, what kind of work will you do for the entire base?"
Mr. Chang did not hide this point and told everything he knew: "We are engaged in some constructive tasks. Many of the infrastructure of this base have been destroyed in the forward war, and development is very slow. There are some industries that require truly intelligent life to be able to produce more flexibly."
"We do some management, planning, and additional work at the base detail level."
Zhang Yuan understood what the other party meant. Although the strong artificial intelligence was smart and capable, it still had shortcomings. For flexible tasks that do not exist in the database, it must allocate computing power to calculate them.
Sometimes, for humans, a very simple flexibility task requires a lot of computing power. For example, if a certain machine is damaged, humans will simply judge that it is too difficult to repair and throw it away. However, strong intelligence must analyze the complexity of the machine's maintenance and conduct classified discussions.
Another example is picking up garbage. Human beings can often make a rough judgment on the garbage that can still be used, but it would take a long time for strong intelligence to analyze it.
Although all kinds of trivial things can be completed in less than 0.001 seconds for it, a base is so huge and all kinds of miscellaneous trivial things add up to 10 million if not 100 million pieces, and the computing power required is sky-high.
The computing power of strong artificial intelligence still has an upper limit and cannot be increased infinitely. It does not mean that the computing power is not enough. Adding a CPU can increase the computing power. Because it is fundamentally different from weak intelligence from the algorithm level, there are many relationships involved, and it is not easy to update it.
Especially the self-replication aspect requires a lot of time to accumulate.