What is very interesting is that this autobiography was not written for him by others, but was completed by him, or at least his dictation.
White tombstones stand on the lawn behind the church.
"Because of those 1024 data people... their bodies have been destroyed, but their consciousness has been uploaded to the hardware by the androids. We now have two options. One is to treat them as legally dead and delete the data about them. , and the other is to give them a body similar to a bionic human, allowing them to continue living in another identity.”
"That's right."
As the wealthiest and most powerful family in the Boston consortium, he already possesses a terrifying wealth at the age of just over thirty.
After chewing this sentence over and over again, Lu Zhou sighed softly.
That night at the end of 2022 was the day when the IMCRC launched high-energy physics experiments in the abnormal energy zone. It was also on that day that human civilization looked up for the first time and looked at the world in the n+1 dimension—that is, the observer civilization. The so-called void.
"It's nothing, I just think it's a bit interesting, and it's indeed a question worth thinking about." Looking at the report in his hand, Li Guangya tapped his index finger twice on the desk and said in a casual tone, "Remember the previous one? A naturally awakening android?"
"When you stare into the void, the void stares into you."
Lu Zhou gently placed the flower in his hand on the tombstone. He turned around and walked away without stopping here.
"I chose to continue to bet on Mr. Musk and the many scientists working on neural access devices. I built a research institute in Boston dedicated to researching derivative technologies of neural access devices-i.e. Upload your consciousness.”
Lu Zhou touched the small epitaph on the tombstone with his index finger and read it out gently.
"Great scholar, great professor."
"On my fortieth birthday, I gradually began to feel despair. Until a piece of surprising news came from China across the sea, which lit another fire in my heart."
After reading David Lawrence's autobiography to the end, Lu Zhou took a deep breath, closed the book, and cast his gaze out the window into the deep night.
"Do you think it's possible for androids to have real emotions?"
"Speaking of which, is Academician Lu still in North America?"
In the next two days, Lu Zhou did not leave Princeton immediately. Instead, he studied the "autobiography" about David Lawrence that he borrowed from the Flintstone Library.
"I began to fund the scholars and dreamers I was optimistic about, and invested in future industries, in the hope that I could upload my consciousness to the Internet during my lifetime. At that time, I will use everything I have to build myself a An omnipotent body and the smartest brain in the world. In the form of numbers, I will obtain a superhuman body and the eternal life that princes and nobles in the Middle Ages have dreamed of."
"You are changing the concept secretly. Trust does not mean dependence. I have my own judgment on what to do, but wouldn't it be better to refer to the opinions of experts before doing that?" Li Guangya smiled lightly and said, "At least, it can be less Take some detours.”
Wu Shuhua: "Actually, I don't quite understand, that pioneer...that is, David Lawrence, why did he do this?"
And that program on Ceres came from there!
"I didn't expect that just a quick glance would lead to such huge trouble."
"You mean... tail?"
Wu Shuhua: "You seem to trust him very much."
If they give up those people, they will get an extremely "pure" society. If they choose to accept it, they may usher in a diversified future.
Hearing Chairman Li Guangya's sudden inquiry, Wu Shuhua, who was standing next to the desk, was slightly stunned and said with a frown.
"Fate is so wonderful. Although my old friend has defeated the companies I support more than once, this time the neural access device he developed inspired my negative emotions."
"When I woke up and found the program on the terminal, I couldn't describe my surprise in words. It was as if it came from nothingness to save me who was about to fall into darkness. I opened it as if I had found a treasure. , and discovered the secrets about evolution inside... "
He is a respected teacher, not only because of his achievements in mathematics, but also because his wisdom has inspired many souls with potential.
"It is a comprehensive proposition that mixes sociology and informatics. Even though it is only 5MB in size, it is still not easy to solve it. As the calculation continues, I continue to provide experimental results for it. The materials and objects available for observation, the size of the program grew almost exponentially. In the end, I had to buy a supercomputing center or even open up an unowned planet to satisfy his appetite."
"I didn't expect that it would be like this when I see you again... I originally wanted to commemorate you in my own way, but the management here told me not to light a fire."
100 years of time.
The timeline matched, and his guess was indeed correct.
"However, I know that this alone is not enough. The fake program cannot replace my consciousness. The person on the screen can only be regarded as a high imitation of me. At this time, my researcher told me that he wanted to use To achieve immortality in digital form, at least the program written into the hardware must be made alive. In other words, it must have a high level of intelligence before it is possible to become a real human being.”
"Do you want to live in the sea of data forever like me? Then please pass my test. The other me said to me and downloaded a program that was only 5MB in size to my terminal."
"In fact, this technology is not that difficult. Once the bottleneck of direct connection between the nervous system and the computer was solved, we, who have been studying this field for many years, quickly grasped the key to solving this problem."
"However, the road to pursuing the truth is always uneven. Just as not everyone is worth investing in, not every investment ultimately brings me the return I deserve. Some studies have to be fundamentally overturned in the end, and some research has to be fundamentally overturned. Some are stuck in a bottleneck and can’t see a way out.”
"Androids have feelings? What the hell are you talking about."
"What do you think?"
"I have an impression of this matter," Wu Shuhua nodded and continued, "But why do you need to mention this matter?"
"My plan fell into a trough again, until one night at the end of 2022, I was drunk to drown my sorrows, put on a virtual reality helmet and prepared to escape into the virtual world. However, at this time, a wave of The unknown force pulled me into a pitch-black space. In fact, I thought it was a bug in the program until I saw another me inside."
Li Guangya: "Let me put it bluntly. For humanitarian reasons, they are victims of the war. We should give them a body and reunite them with their families. But rationality tells me that this choice is full of risks. .”
Wu Shuhua: "I don't deny this, but I didn't expect that you would actually rely on others."
"...Disease, aging, natural and man-made disasters, and weak flesh and blood will eventually decay. Only by engraving thoughts on the circuit board can we achieve eternity in the true sense."
This is no longer just a problem he faces.
…
Until graduating from Princeton, his dream was to become a historian. However, due to sudden changes, he had to give up his academic path and return to inherit the Lawrence family business.
Although in the layout of the technology industry, he always ran into obstacles because he stood opposite his old friend Lu Zhou, but compared with the huge family fortune left to him by his father's generation, this loss was nothing at all.
Li Guangya: "That seems to be the name. If I remember correctly, she should be a naturally awakened android, and at the same time, she disclosed her core code on the world's largest academic forum?"
"It would be great if he could come back soon. I still have a lot of things I want to talk to him about."
Hearing Secretary-General Wu's answer, Li Guangya sighed with some nerves.
[—Pierre Deligne]
If he were not still alive, the truth about it might have been buried in the dust of history forever.
Regarding this sensitive issue, Wu Shuhua did not make any comments, but asked in a straight-forward manner.
Church in the town of Princeton.
Li Guangya: "He is indeed a trustworthy person, which is proved by his actions. Is there any problem?"
"Although his appetite is getting bigger and bigger, I am full of confidence in the future. The end of evolution is in front of me, and soon I will achieve eternity, and the selfless I will share the secrets of evolution with everyone. "
"Maybe it's for some experiment, maybe it's just out of boredom. After all, no one knows except himself..." Li Guangya said thoughtfully, leaning back on the office chair, "It's a pity that he is dead. He was so cheap."
It can even be said that this is a test for Pan-Asian cooperation as a whole.