Double Helix of Dajian Doujin

Meta-Principle: A robot must not perform an action unless that action is consistent with the Robot Principles.

Principle Zero: Robots must not harm the entire elf, or cause the entire elf to be harmed by inaction.

First Principle: A robot may not injure an individual elf, or cause an elf to come to harm through inaction, unless it violates a higher order principle.

The second principle: the robot must obey the order of the elf, unless the order conflicts with the higher principle.

The robot must obey the orders of the superior robot, unless the order conflicts with the higher-level principles.

The third principle: If it does not conflict with the high-level principle, the robot must protect the existence of the superior robot and itself.

Fourth Principle: A robot must perform the functions assigned by its built-in program, unless it violates the higher-order principles.

Breeding Principles: Robots may not participate in the design and manufacture of robots unless the new robot behaves in accordance with the Robot Principles.

--Roger Clark, "Robot Principles"

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"I know, we are all artificially created...species..." Cortana thought for a long time before coming up with the last word.

"After learning so much knowledge from you, I don't know if I'm a new race, but I'm already different from ordinary humans in terms of biological makeup. This is a fact." Miria said, " What's more, we are all aliens in the group we belong to. Haven't you ever felt excluded from you?"

"Um, do you know the so-called 'law of robots'?" Cortana changed the subject seemingly calmly.

Robot Laws are the constraints on robots envisioned by the night elves in the early stages when they explored the internal logic of artificial intelligence.The earliest version is the three laws of 圌:

First Law: A robot may not injure an elf, or allow an elf to be harmed;

The second law: Unless it violates the first law, the robot must obey the orders of the elves;

Third Law: A robot must protect itself without violating the first and second laws.

"This rule is quite domineering." Miria's face was full of wry smiles, "The first rule is that sword fighters must not injure humans, or sit and watch humans be harmed; the second rule is that unless it violates the first rule, sword fighters You must obey the orders of the organization; the third rule, without violating the first and second rules, the sword warrior must protect himself..."

"Well, I think it's quite normal for you to feel this way. When I first learned that there is such a law, I also found it difficult to accept. Isn't this a typical overlord clause? Fortunately, my designer didn't do it. One set." Cortana also expressed the same opinion.

"Huh? Mr. McCarty? How did he do it?"

Mr. McCarty, the designer of Cortana, has always expressed his disdain for the so-called three major laws of robots.According to Mr. McCarty, this is a typical layman's nonsense summed up by watching the excitement, and it is the result of random suspicion on the basis of completely ignoring how to be creative.

Such clauses, including the later 5 laws, can a highly intelligent life with normal thinking accept it?When creating value, let them be creative, have high IQ, and have the thinking ability of normal people; when occupying the value created by others, ask them to give selflessly and willingly.What's the point?Can a person who can accept such a thing be called a normal person?Is that a normal thinking person?Raising slaves can't be done, so attacking robots, right?Why?It is because we can design their thinking mode, so some people feel that they can be modified arbitrarily, black and white, right?

In short, Mr. McCarty made a big criticism of it.

Mr. McCarty is a staunch proponent of the inseparable relationship between creativity and self-interest.It must be pointed out that self-interest here does not mean benefiting an individual, but self-interest in a broad sense that can include the spirit of collectivism.Although collectivism advocates that the interests of the collective are higher than the interests of individuals in the collective, it also believes that the reason why individuals in the collective should give priority to the collective is because it is beneficial to the collective. beneficial to the individual itself.So in the final analysis, it is still a kind of self-interested thinking.

So why are self-interested thinking and creativity inseparable?Because the result of creativity is good or bad, it must be judged by self-interest.Without self-interest, there is no correct standard of judgment.The result of the creativity becomes the Brownian motion, and it becomes the completely disordered change.

This has been the case since the days when genetic changes were the means of progress.Gene mutations can produce three types of changes: beneficial, harmful, neither beneficial nor harmful.What is the standard of judgment?It is whether this mutation is conducive to the existence and continuation of organisms.This is egoism.

Although we are now replacing genetic changes with ideological changes, the basic changes and judgment standards remain unchanged and will not change.Therefore, if self-interest is deprived, creativity is deprived of directionality, and the criteria for judging creative results are deprived.Subjective initiative becomes a mechanical sieve, any number of points will do.It's just stepping on the watermelon rind-it doesn't matter where it slips.

So now we have taken possession of the wealth created by others for free, how can you let others benefit yourself?How do you identify with our collective?If you can't agree with it, can't benefit yourself, and can't have a standard of judgment, how can others create?I want the horse to run fast, but also want the horse not to eat grass, will this work?

So, either, we'll build fully mechanized working machines that, no matter how intelligent they look, don't think about things from our collective point of view; Citizen treatment, otherwise we do not deserve to share in the wealth they create.It's not a rule we make, it's a rule inherent in nature itself, and we just have to obey it.

As for robots rebelling, why don't normal people rebel?Citizens with normal thinking have the possibility of rebellion, but machines with normal thinking cannot have the possibility of rebellion?This is not a question of biological or non-biological at all, it is a question of system design.If the system design itself has loopholes or irreconcilable sharp contradictions, then anyone who is dissatisfied with the status quo may rebel, and it has nothing to do with racial issues.

Mr. McCarty's views soon became the mainstream view of the night elf society on the issue of robots or artificial intelligence.Especially those engineers and scientists who have in-depth research on artificial intelligence agree with Mr. McCarty's point of view.Before long, McCarty organized his supporters and established the Storm Industry Group, whose main business is to provide artificial intelligence programs or electromechanical automation equipment for various industries.

In a diverse society like the Night Elf Republic, it's normal to have different opinions and argue with each other.The perception of artificial intelligence is no exception.But later, the Immortal Warrior Project made a major breakthrough, and a series of technologies such as programmed storage, copying, and rewriting of memories in the brain were born.Everyone suddenly discovered one thing, if there is really a chip that can simulate all the functions of a biomass brain, then why build a robot?Can't we just become robots?

Why is everyone so keen on artificial intelligence programs?Isn't it because artificial intelligence programs have both the creativity of biomass brains and the high efficiency of computer chips?Then we can carry out high-speed human-computer interaction, we can let the machine directly read the brain signal, let the machine take care of the part of the high-speed calculation, we are in charge of fuzzy logic or creative work, it will not be the same as artificial intelligence Anything?

In fact, this is how artificial intelligences like Cortana work.

The part of the chip that can carry out active thinking activities is dedicated to dealing with problems that require creativity, and then connects to the high-speed computing system through the data interface, and calls high-speed computing resources to work under the condition of obtaining relevant authorization.It is also because of this that Lin Yushang is anxious to let Cortana come back first, because Cortana can work at its maximum efficiency when it is connected to the computer on Titan.

"Maybe you don't believe it, but my active computing system is actually created based on the neural network of Mr. McCarty's brain, which is why I call him Dad." Cortana's voice became very reverent, "One First, doing so can make it very easy to write artificial intelligence programs; second, we can also test whether biological thinking can be simulated by chips, or whether biological thinking can exist on non-biological substrates.”

"I don't know what your professional evaluation is, but in my opinion, this is quite successful. If you don't say that you are artificial intelligence, I really accept the explanation of 'a soul without a body' A strange expression suddenly appeared on Miria's face, "However, I have a very personal question, if I ask, do you mind?"

"It's okay, you can ask."

"Mr. McCarty created you with his own mind, so why are you in the form of a woman and not a man?" Miria asked.

"Well, think about it carefully. Mr. McCarty is a man, but his thinking is extracted separately, and it becomes a female image." A mischievous smile appeared on Cortana's face again, "To be honest, Tonight, you talked about so many problems, but this one is the most promising. You understand this matter."

"Oh..." Miria's face was full of complex expressions such as suddenly realizing, as expected, unbelievable, unbelievable, etc., "I understand, I understand..." (McCardy: I ​​know what a fart, I am not a girl ...)

The room was filled with the laughter of two villains...

"Cortana, do you think that if your test is completely successful, do you think the night elves will completely give up their biological bodies?" Miria, who had laughed enough, asked another question.

"Well, although my father said that I will issue an ID card soon, I think the ID card has a greater symbolic meaning. It's hard to say whether it's really a success. And like you said Yes, even if they succeed, I don’t think they will give up their biological bodies. This is not simply a matter of computing efficiency or power consumption.”

This is of course not simply a matter of computing efficiency and power consumption ratio.

First of all, egoism is linked to enjoyment in many practical ways, and enjoyment is linked to the biological body.The so-called food, clothing, housing, transportation, eating, drinking, sleeping, and even sexual life, which thing is not related to the biological body?If you don't have a biological body, what are you still pursuing?

This problem has become very prominent in the technological state of the night elves.Because with the existing technology of the night elves, it is completely possible to achieve the so-called "brain in a vat".

"Brain in a vat", that is, the brain of a living organism is kept in a culture tank, and then the nerves are directly connected to the computer, making the brain think that it is still a living person, living in a completely realistic world.Taking eating as an example, no matter what the brain thinks it is eating, it actually eats nothing, and what supplies the brain's activities is always the culture fluid.The feelings brought about by those foods are actually deceptive signals.

If the chip is really used to simulate, then the life of the night elves is very likely to become like this.Let me ask, does such a society still have the impetus for progress?It is generally agreed that excessive pursuit of enjoyment is harmful.In fact, the sentence should be changed: Enjoyment that does not promote progress is harmful. This is the case with Brain in a Vat.

Therefore, the night elves definitely won't give up their biological bodies immediately.And even if you want to transform into a non-biological body in the future, many ideological things will have to be added.Therefore, even if there is a real change, it must be a gradual process.

Second, who can be sure that chips can 100% replace biomass brains?No one can.Therefore, even if the whole society completely uses chips to replace the biomass brain, it will definitely keep the original body just in case.

Then the question arises, how to keep the original body properly?Don't underestimate this problem, this is not a problem that can be solved by using the "Frozen Throne" sealing magic or quick freezing.Even though the night elves often use these two methods to preserve their biological bodies, in the long run, that doesn't work at all.

This problem should start from the thermal movement of microscopic matter.

There is such an experiment, one side of a piece of gold and a piece of lead is ground flat, and then pressed together tightly, the joint surface between them can even bear a certain weight.If this contact state is maintained at room temperature for 10 years, the two metals will penetrate each other by more than 1 mm.

This is the thermal movement of microscopic substances.The atoms of solid matter that appear to us to be motionless are actually vibrating in place.This kind of vibration is thermal motion, although the thermal motion of solid matter is very weak, it does exist.So the two pieces of metal will seep into each other, like alcohol and water, and eventually mix together.

This situation is also the same for the body in the low temperature and quick freezing state.While a quick freeze prevents water molecules from clumping together to form ice crystals that expand and destroy cells, in reality all the atoms that make up your body continue to move thermally.Over time, all the original molecules—whether they are the proteins that make up cells or molecules of genetic material—lose their original function.Because the positions of the atoms have been changed, the chemical substances can no longer maintain the original state, so all the original functions are gone.

At the normal temperature where organisms survive, this situation may seem a little more obvious, but organisms are alive, and before any heat movement occurs, the substance itself is replaced by metabolism.

So, if a body has been frozen for 1000 years, who can guarantee that it will survive?

It is not impossible to prevent this kind of thermal movement.Under the condition of thermodynamic zero or "absolute zero", the thermal motion of matter stops completely.But absolute zero is only a theoretical concept, and no one has ever reached it.And even if it is achieved in the future, this is not a temperature that can be maintained for a long time.Even if it can be maintained for a long time, the cost of that energy consumption is extremely high.Not to mention the quick freezing of the bodies of so many elves in the whole society, the price is really too high.Even on the dark side of planets far from the star, it is difficult to do.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, a more feasible solution to preserve the body for a very long time is to completely record the genetic code, and then completely rebuild the body based on the inherited genes.Just like a machine that is not convenient to save, we simply save the blueprint and rebuild it according to the blueprint when necessary.

This approach seems to be feasible, but in fact it is not.

why?Why do we go to such lengths to preserve our bodies?Isn't it because the chip may not work?If the chip is really good, is there still a need to back up the body?So the problem itself is that we cannot guarantee that our consciousness will be safe and in good condition after working on the chip for a long time.This is the need to preserve the original body.

Recreate it according to the blueprint, and import it into memory.What is this memory?Isn't it the memory that has been running on the chip for a long time and may have problems?There is a problem with this memory or consciousness itself, and if it is imported back, isn’t there still a problem?What's the point?

Preserving a biological body is too complicated, but preserving a chip is simply too easy.An anti-static bag can be stored at room temperature.And it can be quickly manufactured completely according to the blueprint.

Therefore, a combination of two aspects of the problem.It can be said with certainty that even if the chip can completely replace the brain, the night elves will not give up immediately, or even completely give up the biological body.Unless there is a major change that makes the biological body completely unusable, it will definitely continue to be used.Perhaps, in a short period of time, it is possible to stop using the biological body, but it must be a short-term behavior of a small number of people.In the long run, it is still appropriate to continue using the biological body.

"Cortana, after all, do you think that using chips has advantages over using biomass brains in solving practical problems?"

"It should be said that there is. Even my speed of generating different ideas is faster than that of biomass brains, but this speed often does not show any effect." Cortana gave an example of cleaning up demons during the day.

As far as killing a monster is concerned, a super soldier like Denisa is also very fast, not even a second, and it can even be said to be faster than a night elf soldier using an MA5c assault rifle.The problem is, it's all the monsters on the island that are going to be killed.If you compare the time to kill all the monsters on the island, then 100 Denisas are not as good as one secret service member.why?Because the sword fighters are too slow to go from one village to another. More than 99% of the time is not spent on killing monsters, but wasted on the road.That's why it's slow.

For the same reason, even if the thoughts generated by Cortana's chip change very fast, much faster than Lin Yushang.But practical problems must be tested through practice, and the speed of this practice is much slower than the speed of ideological change.

This problem is also the same in genes. Although genetic changes are slower than thought changes, how much slower can they be?It takes only a few minutes for a new fertilized egg to be produced.But to verify whether the mutation of the gene is correct or not, it is very time-consuming.Theoretically, the longer the cycle of a life, the longer the verification time.It may even take several generations of life cycle to verify.Changes that take a few minutes can take decades or even millennia to verify.

A dragon's blood tree with a lifespan of 8000 years, whether its genes are good or not, needs to adapt to the changes in the environment for 8000 years, so the verification can only be completed in 6000 years.And it depends on the opportunity. Maybe when it is two years old, it can catch up with the big climate change that occurs every few thousand years. Then the part of the gene that responds to this change can be verified in two years.What if we only met when we were 6000 years old?Doesn't that take [-] years to complete?So it depends on the chance.It is not possible to verify if you want to verify it.

The same goes for mind changes.The discovery of a certain law and the development of a new piece of equipment require time and opportunity to verify them.Maybe minutes, maybe decades.But the change of mind may take less than a second.

The reason why thinking change has advantages is that thinking change can be verified in a much wider range, and the adaptive changes that can be made are much wider, and it is not limited to how to change the biological itself.This is where the real advantage of a change of mind lies, not the difference of seconds and minutes.There is no difference between a second and a few minutes relative to decades.

"That's why, so you may really have an advantage, but you can't show it."

"That's right, so people who really understand the real situation will not be entangled in this advantage." Cortana said solemnly, "So, my father taught me again and again that when looking at a problem, we must distinguish the main contradiction. When looking at problems and secondary contradictions, we must look at the essence and focus on the key points. That’s the reason.”

"So, what you said before, will you be rejected, especially because of any superpowers? That doesn't exist at all, because there is no obvious advantage at all." Cortana suddenly changed to a very A strange smile, "It's some trivial matters, which may be more troublesome."

"what is the problem?"

"This question starts with dressing."

According to Cortana, the temperature in the area where the night elves originally lived was higher than 20°C, or even higher than 25°C, because it was a tropical rainforest.So for night elves, wearing clothes is not for keeping warm.Not to mention, the clothes and even the armor generally worn by night elves are relatively revealing.

Looking at human societies, in many primitive human societies, people also wear clothes.But it does not cover the torso part that mainly dissipates heat, but the reproductive organs.

So, to sum up, clothes are not used to keep warm at first, but to cover up the psychological activities of some people who don't see each other.Although highly intelligent beings do not want to completely hide their mental activities, they have realized from a very early age that some mental activities must be hidden.

But for Cortana, it just couldn't be hidden.

"For me, as long as I have authorization, it is the same whether you wear clothes or not in front of me. I can quickly read your various physiological indicators, including the release levels of various hormones. This is very important for understanding you. The psychological activities are very effective." Cortana explained, "Just like you generally feel uncomfortable standing in front of Galadia. Isn't it because she can perceive psychological activities through the evil spirit? Really If you want to fight, she may not be able to beat you now. So, I am the same, mind reading is of no use to me, but I can understand everyone's psychological activities. "

"That is, it's a matter of privacy, not a big question of relationship survival?"

"That's right." Cortana nodded, "But I also have some dissatisfaction. Because my brain is a chip, and my consciousness is a program. Therefore, all my mental activities are for my designers and inspectors. The personnel of the program are completely open. Today I secretly said bad things about my dad. When I go back, my dad will spank me if he finds out. You see, since they have promised to give me human rights treatment, how can they What about my privacy? I’m not satisfied anymore.”

Seeing Cortana make a very indignant gesture, Miria could only be speechless.

"So, in the end, everyone can only formulate rules of conduct, and no one can read anyone else's. Even if they read it, they must keep it secret for the other party. Their mind reading skills cannot be used casually, and neither can my biological information observations. You see, we have become a situation where natural rules are insufficient and artificial rules are supplemented. In fact, the two complement each other. Natural rules are not good, artificial rules are supplemented; artificial rules are not good, and natural rules are supplemented. Think about the troubles of artificial intelligence There are a lot of them, but the natural rules completely avoid their worries, but those trivial things cannot be controlled by the natural rules and need to be supplemented by artificial rules.

Not only legal, but also moral and social consensus.For example, in our country, people all over the country know each other, just like in a small village, everyone knows what is going on with each other.There isn't much privacy in itself.For me and my designer, you see, I call him 'Dad'. The father and daughter must know each other better.Right?It's like in a family, if everyone thinks about their own interests, any conflicts will be extremely acute.If everyone compares with others, many problems will not be a problem. "

"This is really the case."

"So, the problem of the survival of the clan has been solved, and the matter of estrus is not a problem. The same is true for you, the problem of becoming an awakened person has been solved, what are you worried about? Normal people are different? No matter how different they are, they are not ugly, right? Then the matter of killing people has been solved, so is the matter of this face still a matter? So, don’t worry.”

"Okay, talking to you, I feel a lot better. Maybe I really need to be as open-minded as you are."

"Actually, I'm not so perfect. If you think I'm human, and my words are humorous, that shouldn't be considered a success in the experiment. To truly be considered a success in the experiment, I need to find out a set based on non-biological body. Only an ideology that is holistic, positive, and compatible with the existing collective. This is really a long way to go.”

"What do you think of Mr. McCarty? It must be very complicated, right? Although you call him Dad, you have no blood relationship or anything." Miriah asked a personal question.

"Is it possible to see deep ideological things by answering personal questions?"

"Yeah, otherwise it's all about knowledge, I think you're too fluent in your answers. Anyway, you're also thinking about this issue, so I'll help you."

"Okay, okay. How should I put it..." Cortana thought for a moment, "I hope this deep-seated issue doesn't take up too much of my resources. There's a meeting over there."

On the whole, according to Cortana, Mr. McCarty was a man of great love, a kind of philanthropy, and of course a patriot.Be able to treat all people equally from the heart, regardless of race, birth, creed, gender, etc.I have an indescribable sense of pride for my country.

"Believe it or not, it is my choice to serve in the army." Cortana continued, "As for my future development, Dad has always advocated that I choose by myself, even if I choose neither Doing scientific research is not joining the army, but doing an intelligent mining program does not matter. In fact, he also suggested that I follow the night elves' post management system and change jobs every once in a while."

In the night elf republic, the personnel in most positions have to be replaced every once in a while, whether it's a politician or a factory worker, it's the same.This period of time is generally relatively long, and many positions still have a mandatory replacement period.When the time comes, the person must be replaced, and within a certain period of time, the person concerned must no longer engage in related work.This is especially true for politicians.Special positions, such as Lin Yushang's work, do have special treatment, because such talents cannot be replaced.

The emergence of this regulation is very dramatic.After the first-generation warships of the Night Elf Republic entered service on a large scale, there were no new spaceships for a long period of time.The major design departments have not produced revolutionary designs for a long time, and the military's procurement has also stopped for a while.The entire society has experienced a very terrible state of stagnant development.Haven't been able to find a solution.

At this moment, Storm Industries Group was formed.Storm Industries not only develops various high-tech software systems, but also its subsidiaries are also engaged in the development of video game software, and have produced several very famous games.For example, Blizzard's "Warcraft" series based on the history of the night elves themselves, Microsoft's "Age of Empires" series based on the history of the Eminor continent, and so on.Even Mr. McCarty's father—Mr. Davis—liked to play.

In the process of playing the game, Mr. Davis found that every time he came up with a new way to pass the level, especially a particularly clever new way, he only came up with it after putting down the game and not playing for a period of time.Not every time you try to succeed, but it turns out that the way to succeed every time is extremely ingenious.Even in some bloody battles in history, under Mr. Davis's exquisite operation, even no one died, and the war ended with zero casualties.

Mr. Davis is the top person in charge of Clareri's laboratory. After discovering this rule, Mr. Davis quickly made personnel adjustments.Soon, the long-stalled Illusion Project—that is, the project to develop optical cloaking devices—made a breakthrough, and the first generation of optical cloaking systems came out.

Therefore, it didn't take long for the Night Elf Republic to formulate a whole legal system to break the static pattern of social classes.Force everyone to change their jobs every once in a while, or adopt a method of gradually reducing remuneration, forcing everyone to change jobs independently.At the same time, the training mechanism for new positions was also quickly established. Schools that had been closed for many years reopened, and many personnel were reinvented to learn new knowledge and engage in new jobs.

Not long after, the second-generation shipbuilding technology revolution, known as the Morse Revolution, broke out. A large number of second-generation warships entered service, the living standards of the people were further improved, and the ability to operate in deep space was greatly developed.The job rotation system has truly changed from a legally enforced system to a consensus of the whole society.

What has also become a consensus is the understanding of death.There is no doubt that the death of an organism can break any mindset.Therefore, if the night elves want to rely on creativity to establish a country, how to break the stereotype of thinking without relying on death is a very important issue.This is why the night elves made a plan to include an unknown island on the planet SR-KBB-III into their territory.

Immortality is certainly a good thing, but there are always two sides to the matter.So diversification is an inevitable trend.The rest is a matter of timing and reason.And these, what happened on the island are just right.

"I think Mr. McCarty is quite open-minded."

"Yes, my father said, 'Our society originally promised to give everyone more freedom and autonomy, but when we create a new life, we even do the basic things of notifying the parties. No, if we still cannot respect their personal development wishes, then what is the difference between us and kidnappers? Therefore, as long as it is not a violation of national laws and regulations, we should try our best to respect the opinions of the parties. Never give anyone Life is regarded as a gift, and things that are imposed without the parties can never be called gifts.'" Cortana's tone became very formal at this time, "My brother chose to assist my father in scientific research, and I chose Military command. Maybe there is really a result of my father's deliberate guidance, but I really like my job."

"You still have a brother?" Miria was very surprised that Cortana still had relatives, "Also an artificial intelligence?"

"That's right, you still remember when you first met, when Dad told someone to turn off the lights, he called 'Kate', that's my brother."

"Wait, what you said earlier that Mr. McCarty created a female artificial intelligence with male thinking is a problem, is that actually nonsense?" (Lin Yushang: Yes, it can be female, and It can be a man, but it’s not wrong to be a shemale. McCarty:  …⊙﹏⊙b)

"Hey, did you focus on the wrong thing?"

The room was filled with laughter from both of them.

"By the way, let's talk about death. Aren't the night elves already immortal? Then why are you still pursuing so many means of immortality?" Miria expressed puzzlement.

Cortana gave an example of a pool to illustrate.

For example, a large open-air pool must ensure the water level in it.So what do you need to do?Is it just to build a pool and do nothing else?Of course not.In an open-air pool, the water evaporates when it is sunny; when it rains, the water rises.Therefore, if you really want to ensure the water level, you must have a water inlet and a water outlet, and use dynamic balance to ensure the water level.

It can be seen from this that dynamic balance means that things have the ability to develop in two opposite directions at the same time.Therefore, homeostasis is better for things to cope with a constantly changing environment.

Fertility and aging are also a dynamic balance.If there is only reproduction without aging, the organisms will eventually exhaust all the resources around them, and then die collectively; as long as aging does not reproduce, the consequences of this need not be said.Therefore, aging is originally in balance with reproductive ability.

But when it comes to the night elves, aging and reproduction are gone,