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Zhang Ran took a deep breath, and said slowly: The Unreal Lab 1.0 in the recent stage is very effective, and it can continuously cultivate excellent engineers for human civilization. It is an engineering need. It is indeed an epoch-making technology.”

I heard that in major colleges and universities, the average grades of students have also improved to a certain extent. No matter how much the improvement is, it is still meaningful.

However, there are still many difficulties we face. For example, the proportion of super geniuses in the second generation is not as high as that of the first generation, which means that we are facing a problem of IQ regression... the first generation The average IQ can reach 120, 130, and some can reach over 200, but what about the next generation?

The people of the next generation are now only at the 5 million level. How many super geniuses are there?

The 45 million people in the first generation are carefully selected by 7 billion people, one in a hundred, and the population base is equivalent to 7 billion.

But the second generation is born and raised, and there have been almost five million children over the years. There is no way to compare the base numbers of 7 billion and 5 million.

Parents with high IQs may not be able to give birth to children with high IQs. Generally speaking, IQs will shift towards the average level.

Good educational methods can improve IQ and lower limit, but cannot raise upper limit. The upper limit of most people is a qualified space engineer. It is really powerless for them to become scientists, conduct scientific research, and gain insight into the truth of nature.

True super geniuses need a huge population size to be more likely to emerge.

And what mankind needs now is super geniuses who can break through the upper limit of technology... more super geniuses.

Thinking of this, everyone was frowning and speechless.

Zhang Ran finally sighed: The productivity is not lacking for the time being, how should the population problem be solved? If our generation dies, the number of scientists will be very scarce. It is very good to maintain the existing technology. There may be no room for us humans to go up.”

The most important thing is that people nowadays don't have children at all.

What Zhang Ran said was very true.

The more advanced the technology and the more branches, the more super geniuses are needed.

For example, the maintenance and upgrading of the universal factory is the responsibility of the team led by Lin Qiuyue, which requires an extremely large amount of knowledge and years of training.

There are more than 300 members in the group, all of whom are super geniuses with an IQ over 160. If these 300 people die of aging, or some kind of accident occurs, then the factory will not be able to be replaced.

Later generations want to maintain the operation of the universal factory, but they can still make do with it, upgrade and update? Don't even think about it!

Talent determines the upper limit of intelligence!

This is true of the universal factory, and so is the rest of all walks of life.

For example, in a certain branch of mathematics, symplectic geometry, only two or three mathematicians are doing it, a very unpopular subject.

Mathematics, there are many times when it seems meaningless, but it is at the top of the chain of academic contempt.

No matter how the laws of physics change in each universe, mathematics is still mathematics.

But if these researchers die, future generations want to understand Xin Geometry, they can only look up documents from the database, but in the absence of anyone to communicate with, the difficulty of self-study is undoubtedly higher than one level.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Ran said again: The current population is still too small. Unless the number of residents in Kunlun Mountain reaches 1 billion, and through excellent education methods, the number of super geniuses can be equal to that of the first generation.

But judging from the current birth rate, it is completely impossible. The current birth rate is only 1.2%, and it is decreasing year by year. The population will regress in the long run.

Everyone should think about how to solve this problem. Now we are in the third stage of interstellar civilization, and we have to move towards the fourth stage... If you don't think about it now, it will be too late later.

There was a moment of silence in the small room. Zhou Chengfeng and other government officials had actually put forward quite a few ideas on this issue.

But it doesn't make much sense!

A few years ago, after the people's living standards were improved to a certain extent, many policies to stimulate births have been promulgated, including nursery schools, free baby diapers, free milk powder, centralized robot nursery rooms, etc. The effect is still not very good.

Except for a small baby boom brought about by the war, the birth rate has almost only decreased and not increased.

A demographer shook his head: Because having children will not bring any benefits. In ancient times, the benefits brought by a child were greater than the cost of raising them, so the more children you have, the better.

Now, there is no financial benefit to having a child.

Actually, the reproductive benefits promulgated by the government are of little significance once they reach a certain level. The reproductive problem has existed since the earth age, and no country has ever solved it.

On a more fundamental level, the genetic philosophy system followed by human beings, such as the traditional family system, fertility concept, and parenting concept, are increasingly incompatible with the interstellar industrial age with highly developed productivity.

That's right. Zhang Ran sighed, If it were me, I would have given birth to at most one child. In an era of high affluence, family succession seems to be less important than before.

If productivity continues to be released, people will be able to live in the care of robots for the rest of their lives, from birth to death... People can be highly free to engage in the work they want to accomplish, pursue their own beliefs, and some People spend their entire lives just to write a masterpiece, and some people spend their entire lives promoting a small progress in the universal factory, or making a game that lasts for a long time, or in the case of no worries about food and clothing. , to solve a world-class mathematical problem.

This may be a true portrayal of the future communist society...Comprehensive individual freedom and the progress of civilization sometimes do not contradict each other.

It's really reached that point, in fact, even if I don't develop upwards, I don't care anymore.

Zhang Ran changed the subject: But we haven't reached that point yet, how can we solve the problems we are facing now? I still want to reach the level 4 civilization in my lifetime.

You also know that Level 4 civilization is a big threshold. According to the information given by Green Star Civilization, Level 4 civilization has greatly improved in terms of man-machine integration. Our current virtual world technology does not directly affect the nerves, but only Stay at the original perception level of eyes and ears.

However, the fourth-level civilization has made a leap forward at the biological level, that is, it has the technology related to the brain in a vat. This technology has greatly improved human-computer interaction, including intelligence, which is equivalent to everyone's brain. A computer is installed in both.

So there needs to be a planetary computer to connect all the information. It is equivalent to the central brain.

Also, the fourth-level civilization has discovered the theory related to blue matter. Blue matter should be a kind of dark matter that can exceed the speed of light in the high-dimensional universe. As long as blue matter can be used, it can not only detect faster than light speed, but also communicate faster than light speed. Everyone knows what that means?

We naturally know these things. Lin Qiuyue looked at him and said helplessly: But you have to know that the fourth-level civilization in the past was built on a population of tens of billions, hundreds of billions, and long-term great wealth. .”

Just like the population of the Green Star civilization at its peak exceeded 100 billion, the Green Star people are fundamentally stronger than us.

Our innovation ability and level of wealth cannot be compared with these civilizations. Moreover, we have just entered the third-level civilization and have not yet formed our own industrial system. It is simply impossible to reach the sky in one step.

Zhang Ran was a little embarrassed by what she said. But to be honest, the green star people are stronger than humans.

Some of the current social systems and direction of human beings are all improved according to the artificial template of Green Star.

The genetic memory of green star people leads to a very clear division of labor. They know what they should do as soon as they are born. This memory line will be continuously strengthened, giving them a sense of happiness and satisfaction, just like fishermen who always like fishing and love fishing. fishing industry.

Humans have no genetic memory, and newborns are born dazed, causing most people to have no hobbies at all. The direction of human happiness may often be the direction of degeneration, which contradicts the progress of civilization.

Not necessarily. In fact, genetic memory sometimes hinders innovation. Therefore, Green Star people are divided into two methods: complete genetic memory and incomplete genetic memory.

Can we inherit memories? Can we decipher their mysteries?

No, we can't, unless we can completely decipher the mysteries of the genes. Even the fourth-level civilization may not be able to do this, and it may be the fifth-level civilization that can modify the genes as we like.

Everyone discussed for about an hour, but something came out of the discussion.

Council leader Zhou Chengfeng said: Let me sum up everyone's views. The first is to develop science and technology that enhances intelligence. This should be difficult, and maybe only a level 4 civilization can do it. But we can work hard. After all, we have Sakurai who can do it. The cloned psyker, the D factor in her blood, not only makes people live longer, but also keeps the brain young and active.

The New Humanity Project has made good progress over the years...

The second is to increase the life expectancy of the population and let our first generation live longer. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. This is also related to the new human plan.

The third is naturally to expand the population size. With more people, there will be more geniuses. This requires artificial womb technology to make progress, and the current progress is not bad.

Almost all the pressure is concentrated in the new human laboratory, biology, human beings look forward to epoch-making biology!

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