Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1509 Vending Machine

"Ahhh! I'm back!!!"

When the school bus came back, all the students who got off the bus were crying and almost kneeling on the ground.

After 20 days of torment, they finally came back.

They didn't get tanned in the icy and snowy weather, but they didn't eat or sleep well for more than 20 days. It was simply torture.

Even if they were tortured, they had no place to complain. Because the Imperial College was not only a school, but also the administrative body of higher education institutions across the country, the final person to accept the complaint was Wen Zhongwen, the minister of the two dynasties, the evergreen of the seven cabinets, the Minister of Rites, the Imperial College, and the Grand Master Wen Zhongwen himself. The only result of the complaint was that Grand Master Wen Zhongwen would be promoted to his own hall.

This is absolutely not allowed. This is also one of the prices of studying in the Imperial Academy. You can get into the Imperial Academy anywhere except here.

However, the Imperial College was not a place of torture. For example, Shangluo and Zhu Xianxun had already chosen it as a testing ground for social engineering tests.

"Come to think of it." Zhu Xianxin touched his head, "Isn't it a bit too hurtful to always use your classmates for experiments?"

"No, they won't get hurt. That wasn't my plan the last time. Last time I was going to let everyone eat military rations and then stand together to play line-up shooting. Who knew they would suddenly start to use their brains but I didn't prevent everyone from using their brains. This was indeed my fault. But this time it's just a welfare gift. Now you can have whatever you want to eat."

"That's true. The Jinyiwei office does have a beverage machine. It's not like it can't be considered a benefit. But are you sure there's no problem?"

"In theory, these are still the application scenarios of Tianyi Guiren, but we have made some upgrades to them."

What is different from the past is that although Tianyi Guiren is still being used, this time Tianyi Guiren is not being used as an individual, but is being encouraged to form a collective consciousness.

Just like the former young general beside Shangluo, just like the switching station of Jinyiwei.

When people gaze upon a bee colony, they cannot help but ask: How exactly is a bee colony organized?

What is certain is that it is not the queen bee that makes these decisions, because the queen bee is more like the reproductive organ of the bee colony, and its thinking function is not much more advanced than that of ordinary worker bees.

All bees in a beehive are similar in physiological structure and are not very smart. But once these bees unite, they can burst out with survival wisdom far exceeding that of individuals. As a whole, the beehive behaves as a unitary whole, maintaining its own characteristics to resist disintegration.

A swarm is neither a thing nor a concept but a continuous surge or process.

However, some fundamental questions remain unanswered:

Where is the soul of the hive? Where does it reside?
Who rules here? Who issues orders? Who foresees the future?

In this experiment, all these questions will be answered.

A single Tianyi Guiren is unlikely to demonstrate complete intelligence that can communicate with humans, so its function when used alone is difficult to guarantee. However, once all Tianyi Guiren form an [imagined community] and let them imagine how they will function as a whole, a new consciousness will emerge from the collective.

It is not that one self replaces all selves, but that all selves merge into one self. The decision of this new self does not deprive all individuals of their decision-making power, but rather integrates the consciousness of all individuals to form a collective decision.

Individuals do not just share behaviors, but also synchronize deep emotions and memories. Once this imagined community - the consciousness of this community begins to exist continuously, even if a single individual disappears physically, he will continue to exist on this network forever.

People - or Shangluo - will ask again: Do bee colonies dream?

"Shangluo, that's a very good question. If the emerging consciousness can continue to exist, then when all the individuals that make up this collective enter a dormant state, will it dream?"

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded, "We just want to confirm this, right?"

"Then let's play a game. It's already in the system. The simplest one, table tennis."

This game is incredibly simple. In Shangluo, it is also one of the earliest electronic games in the world.

The rules can be summarized in one sentence - both players manipulate the blocks at one end of the screen to hit a ball of light that will bounce in the air.

Just like in real ping-pong, when the ball hits the edge of the screen, that means one side loses.

This game also has an evolved stand-alone version, which is Breakout. In this mode, the opposing players are replaced with fixed blocks of various colors and durability, and then one person can break these blocks.

"Yes, it's this Ping Pong game. We have experimented with it before, you can just load the experimental version - in short, there is only you on this side, and there are 500 Tianyi nobles on the other side."

"500? How do we fight them?"

"You set up a room first, and then the free Tianyi nobles will come over to play. Matching is quick because everyone likes to play."

"Really?" He opened the room.

1.4 seconds later, all 500 Tianyi nobles were in place.

"I'm not surprised why everyone likes to play, but at this time, how can so many Doudou have nothing to do? Isn't it the morning when people start work?"

"Well, that's why the work efficiency is so low. Tianyi Guiren are much faster than humans, so they only need to spend a small part of their time interacting with humans. Most of the time they are actually slacking off. In fact, this game can't occupy the energy of those Tianyi Guiren at all. They can work while playing."

"Hey, I won't let them have fun so easily. So, I control the racket myself, how does the other side control it? The majority wins?"

If the speed of moving the beat remains constant, then it depends on voting to decide whether to move up or down.

"It's not that the majority wins. In this process, all the Tianyi Guiren will get the same weight - for example, each bean can decide the speed of 1 pixel. The collective decision of all the Tianyi Guiren combined is the final decision. In other words, if their opinions are deadlocked, the racket will tremble in place. If the collective decision leans towards one side, the racket will start to move. The more it leans towards one side, for example, if 500 Tianyi Guiren all decide to go up, then the racket will move very fast."

"Ah, so the speed of the racket is not equal, right?"

"That's the beauty of it. Because if the direction is determined by a simple majority and the speed of movement is fixed, it would be stupid. If 51% of the peas decide to go up and 49% decide to go down, then the final decision will disappoint and annoy half of the peas."

Most people would be very angry if they encountered such a situation. But for the bad-tempered Tianyi nobleman, this dissatisfaction might be doubled, or even explode.

"So we cut the final result into 500 pieces, and all the peas can make their opinions play a role in the whole process. In this way, when the racket is not moving in the direction they want, the peas will not be angry and blame each other, but focus on the task itself, decide whether to go up or down, because each bean's decision is valuable and valuable in the whole process."

"Ah," Shangluo thought for a moment, "so we have to use a bee colony as an analogy, right?" "Yes. The behavior of a bee colony is based on this distributed decision-making. Every bee plays a role in the decision-making, and the behavior of all bees jointly affects the behavior of the bee colony. It is not the queen bee, nor any individual that makes the decision, but all the bees that influence the result - this is emergence. The so-called emergence is not a gathering of a mob. From a limited low-level consciousness, a high-level consciousness will emerge. As long as the fit is successful enough, this consciousness will perform far beyond the level of an individual. Just like the behavior displayed by the bee colony is far beyond what the small arthropod brain can accommodate."

A bee's brain, the size of a speck, has only six days of memory, while the hive as a whole has a memory of three months, twice the average lifespan of a bee.

"So this is what is being refined. Are you using individual consciousness to refine the elixir?"

Zhu Xianxun clapped his hands: "You have realized the key to the problem - that's why this matter is organized by me, an alchemist. That's it. This is alchemy. Or, in other words, alchemy."

"Is this thing really that powerful?"

"You will know if you try. Tianyi Guiren is ready, you can start."

"Well, I won't show mercy."

Although it was just a table tennis game, although it was just the simplest table tennis game, although he could only operate one racket, Shangluo definitely did not want to lose.

The game is on!

乒

乓

At first, the movements of the 500 Tianyi nobles were a little slow. But after less than 3 seconds of mutual adaptation, the movements immediately became smooth. Each Tianyi noble built a virtual layer in his mind: the position where the racket should be. They were all imagining what the result would be if they held the racket.

All the Tianyi nobles will summarize their decisions and jointly determine the movement state of the racket.

乒

乓

10 seconds later.

"." Shangluo looked back at Zhu Xianxin, "Isn't the speed of this ball a little slow? I feel like if Victoria plays, she can play with Doudou for three hours without a clear winner."

"Easy, just add the ball. Do you see the three-color blocks that appear randomly on the screen? If you hit them, the ball will split into two. Please continue. This color block will continue to appear until one of you loses the ball. It's just a small experiment, so if either side loses a ball, they lose."

When the number of balls began to increase, the situation became different. As the number of balls increased, the difficulty of calculation increased sharply. Even Shangluo had to devote some attention.

2 minute later.

The number of balls on the screen has increased to 48, but neither Shangluo nor Tianyi Guiren has lost a single ball. Shangluo has a celestial body, but Tianyi Guiren is not a pushover. Because Tianyi Guiren's perception of time is faster than that of ordinary people, Tianyi Guiren does not need to put in all his energy when playing table tennis.

However, when 48, 49, or 50 balls appear on the screen at the same time, the situation is completely different. Even Tianyi Guiren needs to deal with it with all his strength.

“Hey hey hey hey hey!” Zhu Xianxin noticed something was wrong, “Shangluo, you’ve withdrawn the computing power!”

"I know"

"The Jinyiwei telephone station is jammed! And many of the spiritual fluid vending machines are all jammed! They haven't even gone to work, they've all come here to play table tennis with you!"

500 Tianyi Guiren are actually quite a lot, because the phone number of Jinyiwei is only composed of 200 Tianyi Guiren.

[Shangluo, there's a call for you.] Apollonia's voice suddenly interrupted.

"Hey!" Shangluo was distracted for a moment and lost the ball.

The opponent's racket began to jump and swing left and right, and he was very happy.

"Hey, this time doesn't count, let's play another round!"

Before he could finish his words, 500 Tianyi nobles all ran away as if they had escaped from the trap. In just one second, not a single one was left.

"Good guys just run away after winning, right? Why haven't I seen them so diligent before?"

"Look." Zhu Xianxun replied, "This is the first level of effect. For Tianyi Guiren, just improving their work efficiency is already very powerful. This is how Jinyiwei's radio station is used - but can it actually boost their power to the limit? I didn't expect that they still have so much potential that has not been developed. I have to increase their workload next time."

"So, brother, we just need to deepen this process."

"Yes, it's just like the Jinyiwei switchboard. You can see that the Jinyiwei switchboard has emerged with language abilities that ordinary Tianyi nobles don't have. They can speak the language of normal people through the emergence of group consciousness. And that consciousness has memory. It has its own memory as a whole. Even if the Tianyi nobles who make up the whole often take turns, it will not affect the continuity of memory."

"That is to say, our experiment actually started a long time ago?"

"That's exactly the truth. But at that time, we did not promote this experiment on a large scale because we had not actually started to implement this work. One reason was that we had not yet decided when to start the ascension, and the other was that we had not yet thought of a plan."

The second one is the most critical, because the various operating modes will directly determine the underlying logic of the emerging consciousness.

Once this underlying logic is confirmed, it cannot be changed because it is rooted deep in the thinking of this collective consciousness and is the cornerstone of the entire collective consciousness.

In other words, this imagined community needs a suitable model to drive it when completing practical tasks.

"The telephone switchboard model is actually not very good. You should be able to tell from past use that the switchboard is too talkative. Because the application scenario of the switchboard will absorb a lot of incomprehensible language content, it will train the Tianyi nobles to strange places. If all the collective intelligence of the trained people is like the supporting role in a crosstalk, it will be too annoying."

"That's true."

"So I think the solution you just found is very good - vending machines. If we use vending machines as a blueprint, then the messages that Tianyi Guiren can receive are just needs without any emotion. Tianyi Guiren only needs to respond to such needs. In this way, even if these Tianyi Guiren do not receive effective instructions from us one day in the future, once all the Tianren are busy cultivating immortals and are too lazy to take care of them, these Tianyi Guiren can continue to operate with the underlying logic of 'servers' - that's right."

(End of this chapter)