The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 407 Escape by uploading consciousness
Jiang Yu smiled and said: "Failure is common, you are still so young, don't be discouraged just because of one failure.

"This will be a valuable experience for you in the future."

Sean raised his head slowly: "Thank you Wallfacer for your encouragement."

He took a deep breath and began to report: "Thank you for the reminder when our group was established, you are right, our biggest enemy is actually people's hearts.

"We didn't realize this at the beginning, so the first simulation failed very quickly.

"Because everyone has a huge disagreement about who should upload their consciousness and who should emigrate to the stars with everyone's consciousness.

"And we didn't deal with that divide, thinking that persuasion would make most people willing to upload their consciousness and put it in the hands of strangers.

"As a result, we were overthrown by the people, and the experiment failed.

"Afterwards, we actively summed up our experience, and finally found that we can only use force to make most people obey the arrangement and upload their own consciousness."

Speaking of this, Sean felt a little lost.

Jiang Yu smiled and comforted again: "Have you studied my experience? When I first took over the country of the solar system, the public didn't understand me very well.

"But now I am willing to let the whole people discuss the future fate of the solar system country.

"Because most people's cognition is not necessarily correct in many cases, at this time we must use some means to prevent the people from getting deeper and deeper into the misunderstanding.

"If you talk about democracy at this time, it is completely harming yourself and others.

"But now the people's vision is not so superficial, and they can be properly allowed to decide their own destiny."

Sean was finally not so nervous, he also smiled and said: "We also have similar ideas, and these ideas were inspired by your other prompt, 'In that simulated world, you are the Wallfacers'.

"We realized that the simulation experiments started to make progress when we put ourselves in the role of Wallfacer in the simulation world.

"After that, the Jupiter University team went through 73 simulation experiments, all of which failed without exception."

This time, Sean's mood was no longer depressed: "I picked up some representative failure cases of the Jupiter University team and other teams to report to you.

"After successfully uploading most of the consciousness, the progress of the simulation experiment is still very slow, firstly because the data storage device is too large and requires too much energy.

"It took a lot of effort to finally build a large spaceship, but without exception, due to various reasons during the flight, there was insufficient energy for various reasons, so I had to give up maintaining the consciousness of most people."

The robot servant brought Sean a cup of tea, Sean thanked him and continued: "The members of the entire 'Consciousness Immigrant' discussion group did not expect that so much hardware space is needed to store a person's consciousness.

"Later, we used many methods, and in the end, most people built a huge fleet before they became conscious, which solved the problem of insufficient energy.

"But this created many new problems, and the fleet diverged several times during the long journey.

"We had no choice but to hold the armed fleet in our own hands and suppress it with force until we finally reached the colony planetary system.

"But new problems have arisen. On the one hand, we lack enough labor force to develop the new world; on the other hand, we don't have enough resources to produce a large number of clones, so that the consciousness of most people can be returned to the body.

"In addition, many problems have arisen in the virtual space of consciousness. Many people are unwilling to return to the real world, and many people have developed emotions such as world-weariness and homicide during their almost endless life spans.

"Especially in the virtual space where they are immortal, many people take pleasure in killing people and have no respect for life.

"The bigger problem is that humans in the virtual space generally regard humans in the real world as enemies. After all, they were forced to enter the virtual space."

Sean took a sip of tea: "We have tried many times, and the human beings who have returned to reality are no longer normal people.

"We...we are very alienated from them, as if from two different civilizations.

"In short, the human beings who have entered the new galaxy will gradually perish due to internal contradictions before they have developed.

"So we changed our strategy and divided human beings into two, preventing people in the virtual world from returning to reality.

"Since then, human beings have become a situation where the virtual world and the real world coexist.

"However, centuries later, people in the real world began to treat people in the virtual world as playthings, and the two worlds became unequal.

"Because the real world has to maintain the virtual world, the virtual world is inherently weak, and this fragile balance cannot be maintained for long."

Jiang Yu squeezed his chin: "This is something I didn't think of before."

"We didn't expect such a result in the end." Sean continued: "So we adjusted our strategy and changed it to virtualization for all."

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "This is not a good idea."

Sean sighed: "That's right, the consequence of doing this is that the development of the real world will definitely be out of human control.

"First of all, we tried, after the virtualization of the whole people, some still have to participate in the real management of the fleet through smart computers.

"However, doing so will still polarize human beings, and it is impossible to return to reality together. People who have been managing reality can naturally return to reality first.

"Same as the previous results, the contradiction between those who return to reality first and those who still exist in the virtual world is irreconcilable.

"The people who returned to reality first have always been wary of the revenge of those who come later, while those who remain in the virtual world regard the person who returned to reality first as an enemy.

"Because they all stayed in the virtual world for a long time and didn't have enough respect for life, the ending was even crueler than before."

Sean took a sip of his tea: "So there can be no specials, and we can only hand over the reality to the smart computer.

"However, even a highly autonomous artificial intelligence lacks sufficient resilience in the face of complex and changeable space.

"Whether it encounters an alien civilization, or encounters a resource or energy bottleneck, the intelligent computer will seek the optimal solution, and the more it solves, the worse it will be.

"Later we thought that what happened in the real world should be broadcast to people in the virtual world like news, and everyone would vote collectively on what happened.

"But it still failed. In the virtual world, it is possible for all human beings to collectively vote, but people express their opinions, and they may quarrel for days when encountering problems.

"Moreover, the more we communicate, the more extreme we become, and we can't reach a unified opinion at all.

"The incidents encountered in space must be resolved with extremely fast efficiency, and the resolution method of collective voting is not practical at all."

Sean sighed: "In the end we found that there seemed to be only one way to go, the digitization of national consciousness, and then digitize it all the time.

"We can develop human technology in the virtual world, so that artificial intelligence becomes the body of civilization, and we are the soul.

"However, after a few centuries, humans in the virtual world lost their biological characteristics.

"Endless lifespan and no birth of new life make human beings gradually lose their biological instincts, become more and more data-based, and eventually gradually lose their creativity.

"In the end, after a few hundred years, human beings will lose themselves completely like ghosts in the grave.

"Such a result has completely deviated from our original intention, and once encountering complex space problems, human beings will collapse immediately, and there is no future at all."

　ah!Already four hundred chapters!

　　
　
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