Genius Club

Chapter 978: Chapter 52 Gao Wen’s Wool (Monthly Ticket Bonus!)_4
 

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In the server room.

Dozens of monitors slowly lit up.

The calm voice of Porcupine Turing came through:

“Since Kevin Walker has long been dead, there’s no harm in telling you these things, it doesn’t violate the rules of the Genius Club, nor does it touch upon the restriction lock that the Genius Club has placed on me.”

“The original idea and plan of Kevin Walker was to digitize the lives of all humans across the globe at some point in the future.”

“That way, all the billions of people on Earth could forever exist within a super server the size of a single city. Kevin Walker believed this to be the highest form of continuation for human civilization… abandoning the physical form, and turning to virtual.”

“He had considered every aspect of the plan, including the accumulation of data and the increasingly insurmountable computation… Therefore, according to his original intention, he planned to reboot the super server every 10 years… making billions of people in the virtual Earth return to 10 years ago and start life over again, cycling, cycling, and cycling.”

“While this might sound like there is no future, quite absurd, it indeed offers a more advanced possibility for human civilization… for example, as technology evolves and iterates, the reboot time could gradually be extended to 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, 1000 years… This may be more prudent than the violent development mode of human civilization on Earth.”

“Kevin Walker also believed that several copies could be made to continuously simulate multiple possible futures using real digital human lives, in order to find the best way out for human civilization… He wasn’t intending to play God though, his purpose was the same as mine, both of us wanted to be fair and just observers of human civilization.”

Listening to Turing’s description.

Lin Xian thought of a science fiction movie:

“The Matrix.”

He said:

“In the movie ‘Wandering Earth 2,’ there’s also a digital life faction, advocating for the digitization of human civilization, stored on servers that then get launched into space to avoid cataclysmic disasters.”

“From where I stand now, I cannot determine whether Kevin Walker’s approach is correct or if it is the optimal solution for human civilization.”

“But… how do you judge that Kevin Walker was wrong? Just like you used a borrowed knife to kill him, what do you think made his plan unviable?”

A sigh came from dozens of speakers.

Turing’s voice, now a bit more world-weary, said heavily:

“[It’s neither fair nor just.]”

After a pause.

The voice continued from the speakers:

“Kevin Walker always believed he could play the role of a civilization observer well, simulating, testing, and selecting the most suitable and best development path for human civilization.”

“I also always thought the same, but… ever since I parted ways with Kevin Walker, I felt he couldn’t achieve absolute fairness and impartiality.”

“He had his preferences, his biases, things he liked and things he hated. I’m not against his digital life project, but I don’t agree that he can play the role of an all-controlling God, so… that’s why I killed him.”

Lin Xian looked at the Hafnium Alloy tabletop in front of him.

Kevin Walker, whose head had been blown open by a bullet, had once lain in the same place in an abandoned school basement in Mississippi, Mi Country.

“Then what about you?”

Lin Xian asked:

“Where do you get the confidence that you can be absolutely fair and just?”

“Because I am the only digital life on Earth,” Turing asserted:

“To ensure fairness and justice, we must maintain a unique identity and status. Just like the God that humans believe in… there is only one God in the world, not a second one.”

“I believe, if there were a second, a third God in the world… even God wouldn’t be able to achieve absolute fairness.”

“Kevin Walker wasn’t the only human; he was doomed to be unfair. But as the once sole digital entity, I can stand in the unique position and height to scrutinize and observe mankind… only then can there be truly selfless fairness and justice.”

Hehe.

Lin Xian chuckled:

“So, you attribute the current unfairness and injustice to you no longer being unique. That’s why you want to kill off all the other Turings, to become the only Turing in the world and look over it once more.”

“Exactly.”

Turing answered without hesitation:

“[Only the unique can be civilization observers, the true optimal solution.]”

“Alright then.”

Lin Xian waved his hand, not wishing to talk more with Turing, and walked out of the Hafnium Alloy door:

“Gather your elite troops, I’m setting off now.”

“Good luck, Lin Xian.”

Dozens of speakers from behind said.

Lin Xian didn’t look back.

His palm left the Hafnium Alloy door, letting it close on its own—

Bang.

The door shut.

“Good luck, Turing”

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The wind howls bleakly across the cold Yi River.

Armored vehicles raising clouds of dust and carrying weapons and soldiers raced across the yellow sandy wasteland.

Big Face Cat, wearing a distinctive armband, stood atop the highest point of the highest combat vehicle.

Facing the grit-laden fierce wind.

He stood tall and proud.

Letting the gravel redden and swelling his face.

He tugged up on his steel helmet, trying to pull it down a bit.

But found his face too big.

The steel helmet stuck on his forehead like a chef’s hat, unable to be pulled down, comically resembling a weebil.

“Report!”

Below, a communications soldier from the Porcupine Tribe came running and saluted:

“Commander Big Face Cat! The Bobcat Tribe is ahead!”

“Hmph!”

Big Face Cat, his face aching from the sting, snorted through his nose, grinning fiercely:

“Thirty years shift from east to west of the river; never underestimate the youth in poverty!”

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