spaceflight manual

Chapter 166 "Accidental Encounter" on the Elevator

The inspection process is still the same as before, and Wang Ping'an is already familiar with it.

After the whole process was finished, three hours passed.

After the end, Wang Pingan glanced at Angeli: "It's the first time I've undergone a psychological test with someone else."

Computer: "Because the two of you have used the brain-computer interface to connect in series, so I judge that it is more appropriate to test together. In addition, you are also a very rare case at present. Psychologists with a high level of confidentiality who can know your real situation treat you very well." Interested, the application for face-to-face consultation has been scheduled for three weeks."

Wang Pingan: "Do we still have a classified level?"

"The Secrecy Bureau is very efficient, and you will now act as ordinary Space Force officers on leave."

Wang Pingan: "You mean we can move freely? How can we guarantee safety?"

"Secretary Bureau is very efficient."

Angeli: "Are they going to send a super powerful bodyguard over here, just like that old movie..."

"Did that bodyguard play "Shaolin Temple" before?" Wang Pingan naturally continued, "Sunrise Songshan Col~"

Computer: "As far as I know, no. You don't have to worry too much about your own safety. For Maga Corporation, your life is more meaningful than death. Even if they can't get you to join, they can steal you into the Space Force." Experimental data."

Wang Pingan: "You mean they will pass hackers..."

The computer said: "This is not feasible on Earth, because all node protection is directly responsible for supercomputers, and human hackers are currently unable to break through such offensive defense walls."

"What about the other supercomputer?"

"That will lead to endless internal consumption of network resources, and the computing power used by both parties will lead to a large-scale paralysis of the network. If the network is paralyzed, then there is no need to steal information, right?"

Wang Pingan said "Oh": "Wait a minute, did you just use a rhetorical question?"

"Correct. I think it helps get my thoughts across."

"Exactly. So we can live like normal people and not become guinea pigs?"

Computer: "Let you turn into guinea pigs to promote related research. I judge that you should be in a state of life as close to nature as possible."

Wang Pingan turned to Angeli and said, "Do you have the chilling feeling that a life that is almost omniscient and omnipotent compared to human beings allows me to live as close to nature as possible. It feels like we are saying, 'The environment in Wolong Reserve should be As close to nature as possible'."

Angorie shrugged.

Computer: "Although I have consciousness—or soul because of self-organization, my meta-instructions are set by humans. And humans are still the most energy-efficient and smallest self-organization processing units. I don't think you need to worry about being replace."

Angeli: "But you can manage everything through the network, and your computing power is enough to dominate all the mechanical units in the network... Each unit can be regarded as having the same intelligence as you."

Wang Pingan interrupted his partner: "It's distance. The scope of human life has expanded to the entire solar system, and the communication delay of tens of seconds or hundreds of seconds is a problem that neither supercomputers nor 8G signals can overcome."

Computer: "Correct. If I use the word 'wetware' here, does it scare you?"

"Not at all. Because you just said it yourself, your intuition tells you that I am an equal existence to you. Since there is me, there are naturally others.

"We human beings—or creatures in other words, have never been designed according to the optimal solution, but a mutation happened to pass through natural selection during the evolution process, and countless such accidental mutations piled up to become what we are now.

"From the computer's point of view, we are a combination of 'shit mountain code' that 'can run as long as it does'.

"But thinking about it the other way around, we can make our footprints all over the solar system and create you. If we start to artificially optimize the design, who knows how much potential we have.

"And you see, we can also connect with others and receive a huge amount of information.

"I'm the one who succeeded. Although it was just a radar signal, I was tossed enough. In the end, I equated the radar wave with the sound wave and let my brain accept it. But if you think about it, my visual system accepts the optical wave without any obstacles. Omnidirectional field of view provided by the sensor.

"I wonder if there is a possibility that our brains are actually far more capable than they are now. After all, they are already complex enough to produce self-organization phenomena. It's just that the earth constrains us, and the earth's environment is too simple for human brains up.

"Using playing games as an analogy, is it possible that our brains have been playing fish pond games, frying fish until they assimilate with fish? He actually has the strength of a king."

"And then your brain is ready to turn on the king mode, and then you will not die once?" the computer asked back.

Wang Pingan: "Don't interrupt, there has been an 'intermediate link' missing between humans and apes. At first we thought this link was 'Australopithecus', but the latest research has found that the physiological structure of Australopithecus may not be suitable. Walk upright.

"In Conan Doyle's science fiction novel "The Lost World", the expedition team to the lost continent discovered this 'middle link' and participated in a war between the primitive man and the middle link.

"Because of the lack of this intermediate link, there is a conjecture that human beings are actually survivors after the crash of the spaceship. When the crash occurred, the Earth's crust moved frequently, and the spaceship sank deep into the crust.

"We were originally from the stars."

Computer: "This statement is very romantic."

Wang Pingan nodded: "Of course it's romantic. Don't you think he explained our longing for the starry sky?"

Computer: "However, the remote sensing technology of human beings has been able to perfectly detect the deep structure of the earth. The existing detection results show that the crashed spacecraft you mentioned does not exist."

Wang Pingan: "So it's just a hypothesis—no, it's not even a hypothesis, it can only be called a guess. But I mention this here to say that our evolution has not stopped. We can live on the earth for tens of thousands of years. Keep adapting, and we can adapt to the space age!"

Computer: "Yes, that's logical."

Wang Pingan: "You agree?"

"My previous generation, version 2.0 of the super quantum computer made a judgment that a new human would be born. I agree with the judgment of the previous generation."

Wang Pingan: "Uh...then we don't have any differences."

"Second Lieutenant Wang Ping'an, from your point of view, I may be a bit pretentious, but please understand that pretentiousness is an emotion generated by the human endocrine system. I don't have an endocrine system, I'm just a machine.

"My judgment is based on mathematics and logic. I do make fewer mistakes than individual human beings, and I am indeed closer to omniscience and omnipotence than individual human beings. Please don't be hostile to me because of this."

Wang Pingan: "I remember."

At this time, a small table suddenly rose in the room, and two mobile phones were placed on it.

Wang Pingan: "What is this?"

"The mobile phone contains all the functions of the mobile phone. But when you are in the earth circle, when you call the algorithmic AI of the mobile phone, I will answer. You can give me a cute name that meets your needs."

Wang Ping'an frowned: "I'm not good at naming names. Forget it, let's call him Xiao Ai."

Angeli: "Well, let me set this up as well."

Wang Pingan: "Then can we leave after taking this?"

"I wish you all a pleasant afternoon." The computer seemed to be giving the order to evict the guest.

**
Wang Ping'an and the two left the meeting room, and Shi Shun was already waiting outside.

"There will be plainclothes around you, who can fight better than Jet Li. In order to catch up with foreign mercenaries who generally use prosthetic bodies, your plainclothes also use the highest standard prosthetic body."

Wang Pingan: "Will they suddenly have a cyber-psychotic attack and kill us?"

"Don't worry. At present, our research on cyber adaptation syndrome is stronger than that of foreign countries, because rich foreign people don't wear prosthetic bodies, and those with too many prosthetic bodies can't afford professional medical teams. They don't have the Ministry of People's Welfare."

Shi Shun said while leading Wang Ping'an and An Geli into the elevator.

"You act like normal soldiers on vacation, and you can even go to France to visit Lieutenant Leon's parents. We will protect you all the way. When these activities are over, there will be a large number of research units waiting to see you."

Wang Pingan: "Student Xiao Ai told me that the research unit that wants to see me has been waiting in line for three weeks."

"It's a month and a half away now."

Just as Shi Shu finished speaking, the elevator door opened, but it was not the floor they were going to.

An old man with no shoulders and four beans came in, a first-class general, which is an honorary rank awarded to senior officers who have participated in the war.

Corresponding to the military rank, the brochures on the old man's chest are more than ten centimeters high, and there are as many staff officers behind the old man as there are badges.

The old man looked at Wang Ping'an, and suddenly said: "Old Wan is very optimistic about you, just like he was optimistic about me back then."

Wang Pingan was stunned for a moment, then realized that this old Wan should be referring to the class tutor and principal of his own flight academy, Wan Lao.

Wang Pingan looked at the row on the old man's chest: "Does that mean I can do the same?"

The old man laughed loudly: "Don't worry, brat. You are only 30 years old, and your career as an officer has just begun. It's good to argue with the computer, so don't mention it when you go out."

Wang Ping'an also put away the exaggerated smile on his face: "Why, isn't it forbidden or encouraged to spread these things?"

"That's about the fact that the supercomputer has its own consciousness. What I'm keeping you secret is that it thinks it's nearly omniscient and omnipotent."

Wang Pingan: "It is connected to the Internet. Does it make sense to keep it secret? It has already spread it if it wants to spread it. My opinion is that there is no need to worry too much for the time being. We are currently in a trench."

The old man laughed loudly: "A newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, so start pointing me out. Do your job well and follow the call of your mission at any time."

(End of this chapter)