This is a very simple arithmetic problem, and the final calculation result is a total of 2266 combinations, and how big is this number?
According to the scientists’ estimation, all the mass and energy in the universe are roughly equivalent to the tenth power after conversion according to the theory of relativity … The number of 2266 power is just a little larger than the number of 10 power … That is to say, only one 266 human body has more different combinations with each other than the number of the original in the whole universe. What about specific scientific’s research?
The research and development of a new material may need to add many kinds of different elemental compounds in different proportions. The content of these added elements is uncertain, the sequence is uncertain when smelting, and everything is uncertain … How many combinations are there?
This is an incredible method to calculate a huge number, which will definitely be more than the number of different combinations of 266 human bodies. So this situation is limited to copying machines. How can people make the exhaustive method exhaust these possible parts? How can they know which combination is correct and optimal if all the possible parts are not exhausted?
The research and development of a new type of material will consume all the energy of all robots, so that the exhaustive method can be used to make robots from the material part of the universe. This is still a kind of material research and development, and even this obstacle can be overcome, not to mention the real technological evolution
So … Based on two points, Xiaoyun knows that relying on the exhaustive method to truly evolve the combination of purposes to make robots constantly is beyond the scope of knowledge of the maker. Evolution is not feasible. No one can do this, even if that genius is the most outstanding intelligent life in the universe, he can’t do it.
This is what Xiaoyun thought of at present, but these two conjectures were rejected by Xiaoyun in the subsequent in-depth thinking.
In thinking, Xiaoyun made some improvements to the second evolution mode, adding some restrictions. The basic idea of these improvements is that the exhaustive method is the least efficient attempt method. There are many combinations, so there is no need to try. For example, if a person knows the situation and wants to make a food, since he knows this, this food ingredient may be something in the universe-including a mass of hydrogen, an iron-rich asteroid fragment, or some liquid things, or planetary soil excretes feces from some living things … These things may be made.
To calculate by exhaustive method, this person needs to try all the unlimited combinations of all the material forms in the universe. This is a huge number to imagine. Even if this person has a life span of 1000 trillion, which is equivalent to 1000 trillion cosmic substances, it is impossible for him to finally make this dish. The reason is very simple. There are too many combinations. When human beings can understand it, it is impossible to try all the combinations.
In this case, it is obvious that there are many combinations that are meaningless. For example, the combination of hydrogen and ammonia is meaningless-this combination obviously cannot make a delicious food, and the combination of iron ore and soil is meaningless. In addition, there are combinations of wood and plastic, carbon dioxide and methane copper ore … and so on. These combinations are meaningless.
But the most important point is that this person knows this food. Since he knows it, he can’t know which combinations are meaningful and which ones are meaningless. When it comes to the research and development of new materials by replication robots, it is impossible for replication robots to know which combinations are meaningful and which ones are meaningless.
However, the copy-restricted robot doesn’t know which combination is meaningful and which combination is meaningless, which doesn’t mean that the genius doesn’t know that he may set a simple screening rule-just like the person who wants to make food but is very confused about the combination of restricted materials. He can make a simple rule of "making the earth products" to exclude all the material combinations except the earth and reduce the number of combinations he faces by several times. If a rule such as "the staple food must be organic" is added to this rule, the number of combinations that this person faces will be reduced by several times because this rule will reduce the staple food.
Similarly, the genius can set a rule that "the maximum residual trace elements of iron should not exceed 1%" for those robots who are developing new materials, so several combinations are excluded. Because the number of combinations is reduced, it is possible for robots to develop new materials by exhaustive method.
But … this only solves the obstacle of developing new materials, but the development of science and technology is not just as simple as developing new materials. In this case, the genius needs to set some rules in every branch of science during the development of science and technology to exclude meaning combinations, so the genius will face the original problem again-if he sets rules for science and technology beyond his knowledge?
That genius’s knowledge must be limited. His knowledge range is limited. He can certainly set detailed rules to help robots evolve, avoid meaningless and exhaustive combinations, but when robot technology develops to be on a par with him, what should he set? -he can’t set it, that is to say, the road of exhaustive evolution by adding restrictive rules still doesn’t work.
So … Is there such a rule that runs through the whole scientific development? Compared with the wild times, it is suitable for people to face the interstellar age, and people are still suitable even when they can sail across the river? Is this a fundamental rule?
If this genius discovers this fundamental rule and applies it to the limited copying robot, the rule that copying robots can be profitable in the early stage of evolution excludes the rule that combinatorial evolution can still be profitable after being more advanced than genius to realize the exhaustive evolution of robots, wouldn’t it be realized that people don’t need self-independence?
So … What exactly is this rule?
Add "adding restrictive rules to help exhaustive evolution" to this speculation. Xiaoyun has made a total of three speculations about the self-evolution mode of robots. Except for these three, Xiaoyun has struggled for several months and failed to find a new evolution mode. Among these three speculations, Xiaoyun thinks that the combination of the third evolution mode and "rootedness runs through the whole final rule of science" is the most possible, so Xiaoyun’s thinking focus is on "what is the ultimate rule of rootedness running through the whole science".
But Xiaoyun can’t figure out what this rule is. Xiaoyun thinks more about every moment when he wants to eat during his break than about the extent to which he has to rely on powerful anesthetics to fall asleep. Xiaoyun still can’t figure out what this rule is.
Without this rule, robots can realize self-evolution. That genius has almost certainly made robots realize self-evolution, which means that the genius thought of this rule, but … Xiaoyun couldn’t think of it.
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Xiaoyun’s thinking went deep into this point and finally met with the obstacle of overstepping the law. At this time, Xiaoyun changed his thinking and turned to thinking about the development model of human science and technology
It is really not necessary to have a rule that runs through the whole development of science and technology for a group of intelligent people like human language, which is fundamentally different from robots because people have the ability of association and speculation. Humans have the wisdom to make them choose different solutions skillfully when facing different problems, but robots can’t have the wisdom, so they can rely on a rule that runs through the whole development of science to upgrade technology.
But if we compare the development of robot science and technology according to the development track of wisdom culture technology, it will fall into the previous strange circle again. "Robots need a fundamental rule precisely because they have no wisdom. If robots have wisdom, what do they need that fundamental rule for?"
The attempt to find the root rule by relying on the development track of wisdom, culture and technology has failed again. Because the development model of human culture and technology is not comparable to that of robot technology, Xiao Yun still has no breakthrough on the question of "what is the root rule?"
More than four years have passed slowly. During this period, General Emek and his staff team have made a lot of analysis on the possible situation and formulated a perfect war plan. What makes Xiaoyun feel a little worried is that all the strategies formulated by General Emek are facing the genius. Obviously, General Emek and his team believe that the robot group is controlled by that genius. If we thoroughly study the psychological command style of that genius, we will certainly not fail.
In other words, General Emek thinks that the enemy he will face is a truly intelligent creature. Even if it is not human, it belongs to the category of intelligent life with human beings. It is not some robots that rely on program logic to operate.
But … what if these robots don’t belong to the genius but have their own independent war system? Just like Xiaoyun thinks at the moment, those robots don’t rely on the genius to upgrade their own technology, but rely on some method that they haven’t mastered yet … What should we do? Doesn’t this mean that all the arrangements and decisions of General Emek were wrong from the beginning?
Xiaoyun once expressed his concern to General Emek, but General Emek said, "Xiaoyun, do you know? War is the most taboo thing. If different choices are always hesitant, it will lead to insufficient preparation in both aspects. We will face failure. Since I chose the speculation that robots rely on geniuses to upgrade their technology and master it, I will unswervingly follow this path. All my strategies will be based on this speculation unless you can find strong enough evidence to falsify this point. "
So Xiaoyun knew that the persuasion words before he thought out the fundamental rule were useless to General Emek.
Little by little, the huge fleet led by General Emek finally crossed a long journey of nearly nine light years from Raqqa to Lager 72.
The main star of Lager 72 is a red dwarf star. Its mass is only about 40% of that of the sun, but its planetary system is extremely rich. It has three rocky planets. In addition, there is a huge asteroid belt around it, and a gas planet expedition fleet with a mass four times that of Jupiter has stopped at a place 100 billion kilometers away from Lager 72.
From this distance, Lager 72 is just a dim light spot in the sky, and the details can’t be seen here by naked eyes. Although the distance between the expedition fleet and it has been reduced from nearly nine light years to less than 100 billion kilometers, it is still unknown to the expedition fleet.
Before the expedition fleet came here, no human artifacts came here. It was a virgin land that had never been sent, just like most of the stars shining in the night, which people had seen but never touched.
The expedition fleet obviously won’t venture into this star, so General Emek ordered a large number of detectors to leave the fleet and set off for Lager 72, and a large number of astronomical telescopes also worked. General Emek tried to take another step after receiving enough data.