Reborn in 2010, the AI ​​in my mind is too powerful.

Chen Yiran was quite glad that he had brought his driver with him today. He had so many thoughts on his mind that he really wasn't in the mood to drive.

Without thinking about the problem or chatting with Jasmine, Chen Yiran simply reclined her chair and closed her eyes to rest.

Nuno and Roberto saw that Chen Yiran was not joking with them like she had when she arrived, so they kept quiet.

Because it wasn't far away and there weren't many cars on the road at night, Chen Yiran arrived home in about ten minutes.

After instructing Nuno to urge the team to move as soon as possible, Chen Yiran entered the house.

Three dogs came towards him to welcome him.

Chen Yiran held the preserved egg by its front paws and started dancing, which drew squeaks and protests from the preserved egg.

Jasmine began to feel indignant on behalf of the preserved egg in her mind.

While Border Collies can indeed be trained to dance with their owners, training is still necessary.

"I'm training right here. What are your suggestions regarding Jobs' proposal? Three hundred billion dollars, three hundred billion dollars, three hundred billion dollars!"

[That's quite something, only 30 billion US dollars.]

"You mean, just refuse outright?"

[No, no, let's discuss this! That's 30 billion US dollars! 30 billion US dollars! 30 billion US dollars!]

"Okay, first of all, to be honest, with my limited knowledge, an acquisition of 30 billion US dollars is already extremely rare."

You said you don't have a wide range of knowledge, so of course I wouldn't know either.

"What should we do then? Who should we ask?"

Google!

"Great idea!"

After checking, Chen Yiran calmed down.

He was indeed ignorant; a 30 billion acquisition doesn't even rank among the top five in history.

Even in cases of separate cash acquisitions, 30 billion is only the third highest level in history.

What's funny is that most of the major acquisitions in history were caused by bubbles.

The first example is in 2000, when Vodafone, a European telecommunications company, used its own severely overvalued stock to acquire Mannesmann, Germany's largest telecommunications company, which was also severely overvalued, for a total of US$180 billion.

When two bubbles are mixed together, the inevitable result is that when they burst, the fall will be even more devastating.

The second example is in 2001, when AOL, like a snake trying to swallow a giant, took advantage of the dot-com bubble and its inflated stock price to acquire Time Warner, involving a sum of $1640 billion.

What's funny is that at the time, AOL had annual revenue of $5 billion, while Warner had annual revenue of $26 billion, but AOL's market value far exceeded Warner's, which is how the deal was completed.

The ending was quite dramatic: AOL announced the acquisition in January 2000, and approval was finalized in January 2001. By then, the internet bubble had burst, and Time Warner's shareholders were stunned. They watched helplessly as their company was acquired by a melting iceberg.

The third one was even worse. In 2007, the RFS consortium, led by the Royal Bank of Scotland, used more than $90 billion in cash, plus 7% of its shares, to acquire ABN AMRO, one of the top five European banks with assets under management exceeding one trillion.

This acquisition, the third largest in total value and the second largest in cash value in history, represents buying the worst thing in the worst way at the worst time.

A year later, the subprime mortgage crisis arrived, and the consequences were naturally extremely dire.

Only the fourth and fifth acquisitions, in the oil and pharmaceutical sectors respectively, can be considered successful.

Chen Yiran can't compete with these behemoths; he can only compare pure cash acquisitions.

In this field, Chen Yiran cannot compare to the ABN AMRO acquisition and the 2008 InBev acquisition of Budweiser.

If we break it down further, the highest record in the technology sector is Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $74 billion last year.

"It's just so-so, only 30 billion? Who are they looking down on? We're a high-tech company, are we not even worth as much as a beer company?"

Exactly, and looking at it calmly, this price isn't even a premium.

"If you do the math, it makes sense. Apple sold over 40 million units last year, and Samsung on the Android side had about the same number. Even if they don't equip every model with the full-fledged 'Beanbag,' and they might negotiate the price, they definitely have 400 to 500 million in cash every year."

The FlowEDA sector will also see a major boom in the next two years. Many of our previous clients will switch to us after their contracts expire. Once Synaptics goes under, we will definitely form a de facto monopoly.

Let Mingdao squeeze out other smaller manufacturers, while we take over the market share of the previous three major players, which should give us at least 75% of the EDA market.

If the offer is raised again after two years, it's very likely that $2 billion will be secured annually. Considering this, the $30 billion seems even less significant.

Of course, with our involvement, Apple will surely achieve the same success as in its previous life, and the stock options we receive will be a huge income. Plus, with the $30 billion we can casually invest in something, the title of the world's richest person is practically within our grasp.

"So, do you think it's better to take the money, or better to refuse?"

[...(⊙＿⊙；)...I'm just an AI agent using your brain as a model. What ideas could I possibly have? Ultimately, the decision rests with you.]

"So, do you think it's better to take the money, or better to refuse?"

I've thought about it carefully, and actually, I think...

"Speak quickly, and you will be forgiven."

【o((⊙﹏⊙))o. I've thought about it carefully, and I don't think there's much difference. I believe that no matter which path we take, we can achieve our desired goals.】

Chen Yiran fell silent. Yes, with his current abilities, no matter what choice he made, he was confident that he could achieve the brain-computer interface goal he had set before.

In reality, if we were to seriously consider whether to accept this money, our own understanding would be the most important factor. If we accepted the money, we could simply relax and enjoy life, giving up on brain-computer interfaces altogether.

My understanding was incomplete before, but after more than a year of reflection, and after carefully watching the Phil 130 philosophy of mind course that you took in your past life to get closer to round-faced Japanese girls.

I've gradually started to have some questions about myself, so I don't think brain-computer interfaces necessarily have to be our long-term goal. We can first solve the problem of self-understanding.

Dead memories gradually found their way to Chen Yiran: Descartes dualism, functionalism, the Chinese room argument, difficult problems, Locke's memory continuity, Parfit's split-brain man, Hume, and Buddhist ano-self theory.

Back then, in order to get a few credits, I almost dragged out the knowledge from the depths of my memory of the philosophy class that had driven me to the brink of collapse.

Chen Yiran was not prepared to let Jasmine think along this path. After all, even if it were real AI, Chen Yiran felt that it could also have a mental breakdown from studying philosophy.

"Don't read those nonsensical things anymore. I've already experienced rebirth, so it's reasonable to say that God gave me a cheat code. Or let's just say we're an extreme manifestation of Descartes' dualism."

Don't bother reading the others, since these philosophy books all have completely contradictory conclusions—which one should you believe?

According to Locke's theory, you are a separate person, not me.

According to Parfit's concept, you are me.

According to Hume, you are me and yet you are not me.

According to the Buddhist doctrine of no-self, even "I" am not "I".

That seems to make sense, so what's the final conclusion? Should we just give up? Or call our parents and ask?

"Ask me anything, and my dad will definitely tell me to just give up."

【╮(╯▽╰)╭】

"Sigh, I've made up my mind. I'll wash up and go to bed first. I'll think about it for a few days. How can I make such a big decision so easily?"

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The next morning, before Chen Yiran could even reconsider his future, Qiu Ciyun and Olofsson came to visit.

When Chen Yiran held a press conference before, he deliberately arranged for the two of them to be together, so that Qiu Ciyun would have the opportunity to persuade Olofsson to come to China and expand the territory of Wanguoyuan.

Qiu Ciyun lived up to expectations and, with the help of Chen Yiran's prestige, successfully persuaded Olofson to agree to take two familiar engineers to join the Chinese company, Wan Guoyuan.

Olofsson was a little reserved when he saw Chen Yiran, who was now at the height of his career, while Qiu Ciyun was much more relaxed and looked around curiously.

Chen Yiran asked, puzzled, "What are you looking for?"

"These days everyone says you're Iron Man, so let me see if you have any weird or unusual gadgets in your house."

"Well, it's not that we can't do it. Okay, let's get down to business. I called you here to talk about the project I'm asking you to undertake."

Qiu Ciyun nodded and said, "Olovson's strategy of using minimal small core parallel arrays is indeed quite innovative. Do you want to follow this direction?"

Olofsson whispered, "Qiu told me that costs are very cheap in China? I hope we can continue this work."

Chen Yiran shook his head: "Designing a simplified RISC core, building an on-chip interconnect network, writing a compiler backend from scratch, and completing tape-out on a very low budget. Your abilities are perfectly suited for this job. Believe me, this is more interesting than your previous project."

Qiu Ciyun was stunned; he had already guessed Chen Yiran's goal.

The slightly dazed Olofsson was still asking blankly, "What project is it?"

Chen Yiran said with a bit of domineering confidence, "I want you to develop your own instruction set architecture from scratch, and make it compatible with both ends. We're going to send those damned ARM and x86 to their graves."