SFS Chapter 122 Hibernation
Chapter 122 Hibernation
In the 200rd year of the Crisis Era, there are 5 years remaining until the water droplet reaches Earth.
"I need to hibernate."
"Yes, you need to hibernate."
Bai Bing said decisively.
"Are there any other options? Time is very tight right now. If I hibernate, it might delay many important things," Lin Xuan said.
"It's precisely because of the time constraints that I decided to have you hibernate to complete the third stage of the Super Dream World," Bai Bing sighed helplessly.
"During hibernation, your brain becomes unusually active, which is the best time to instill memories into your brain; otherwise, time will be more than ten times slower."
After years of research, Bai Bing has finally completed the last piece of the puzzle in brain-computer interface technology.
"Decentralization!"
"We need to dismantle the database and store all the information in the human brain!"
"In this way, humanity will be completely free from the surveillance of the Trisolarans, and brain-computer interface technology will become a truly meaningful network technology that allows for 'rebirth through bloodshed'."
As long as the individuals who utilize brain-computer interface technology—or data entities—do not die, brain-computer interface technology will continue to exist.
No computer virus or mind control method on the market will be effective against the brain network. Humanity will evolve into a completely new race and usher in the next technological explosion!
However, there is a problem: although there is no central database, there is still a dispatch station to manage all the sub-ports, collect their data and queries, and propagate them to another sub-port.
To this end, Bai Bing even conducted a special test.
He divided the 10 participants into five groups and then connected them to a brain network to ask them questions.
Question A: Why should children listen to adults?
Then, this question was transmitted by Bai Bing, who acted as the dispatcher, to the other nine people, including B, C, and D, for an answer.
Among them, answer B is: because adults have more life experience than us.
The answer to C is: Because adults eat more salt than we eat rice.
D's answer is: I don't think children need to listen to adults.
The nine people gave different answers. Then, Bai Bing, acting as the dispatcher, began to synchronously verify these answers, added a few similar options, and fed them back to the ten participants to begin refuting the answers.
Answer B was given to E, who countered: Life experience is just one kind of experience among many. Adults don't necessarily have experience in every aspect, and experience isn't always correct, so the answer was rejected.
C then gave F his answer, to which F countered: "Maybe he just likes salt."
In the end, D's answer was approved by G, H, and I without objection, but was objected to by J, who argued that if adults have already achieved certain successes in some fields, it is not unreasonable to stand on their shoulders and avoid some detours.
The answers were once again compiled at the dispatch station and transmitted down again, whereupon everyone refuted them once more.
This process continued, going back and forth about a hundred times. The reasons for refuting the answer had evolved from being rather casual at the beginning to being philosophical and sociological issues.
By the 1000th iteration, the question had been elevated to the level of human origins.
By the time they reached the [number]th iteration, they had begun to attempt to build a hypothetical universe model.
The contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn Period was a case in point. However, the liberation of thought was not conducive to the feudal ruling class, and only by exclusively respecting Confucianism could the country be secured and prospered.
Human thought can only generate new sparks through collision.
In this test, everyone is a debater, exhausting all their knowledge to argue their point of view and engage in a contest with others.
The weak are quickly eliminated, but they are not upset. Instead, they think about how to learn other knowledge to overturn the other party's point of view again.
Strong people do not form fixed mindsets. They not only try to prove answers that are consistent with their own views, but also prove answers that are completely opposite to their own views. In this process of thinking, they complete their dialectical materialist cognition of objective things.
This is what Lin Xuan ultimately wanted.
A supercomputer capable of integrating the collective wisdom of all humanity on Earth.
Like artificial intelligence, theoretically, given enough time, this supercomputer could solve any problem in the universe.
Of course, the level of science and technology must also keep up. We must combine theory with practice. It would be a miracle if a group of people just daydreamed and imagined things.
If that were the case, Lin Xuan could have them calculate the Grand Unified Theory of the Universe, causing vacuum decay and summoning the Risk Takers.
"The problem remains the same: who should be in charge of the location of this dispatch station?" Bai Bing asked the most crucial question.
This is just the brainstorming of ten people. If we want to integrate the brainstorming of billions of people, then the brain of the dispatch station must make careful choices.
The main visible hazards can be divided into three categories.
First, the dispatch station will know all the results and calculation processes, which means that no one in the world will have any secrets from it.
Secondly, there's the mental state of the dispatch station. Simultaneously handling the intellectual clashes of so many people requires an enormous amount of mental energy, and he may never be able to truly achieve a state of dormancy again.
The third is Bai Bing's conjecture: the massive amount of consciousness transmitted through the dispatch station may cause the dispatch station itself to lose its awareness of "self".
That's pretty terrifying; it would create a real monster!
I am one of the thousand, and the thousand are also me. I control the thoughts of thousands, but I am also one of those thousands.
The line between gods and demons lies solely in the thought of the person in charge of the dispatch station.
Bai Bing's initial idea was to hand over the location of the dispatch station to Cheng Xing, the pseudo-AI created by Yun Tianming, but Lin Xuan rejected it.
Because if you do that, the brain network will still have a central point, and it won't be completely decentralized.
Moreover, even if it is handed over to artificial intelligence, it will not be able to unleash its true power; the final computing power effect may be less than one ten-thousandth of the original.
Although even a fraction of one ten-thousandth would significantly improve artificial intelligence, Lin Xuan still felt it was a pity.
"Well, there's no other way. You'll have to hand this over to someone. But I still have to say, you need to be careful about who you choose. If there's even the slightest mistake, all the efforts we've made over the past two hundred years will be for nothing."
Lin Xuan smiled.
"Don't worry, no, this person is absolutely reliable... because I plan to choose myself!"
"Are you crazy?"
Bai Bing was somewhat incredulous after hearing Lin Xuan's words.
He had already told Lin Xuan about the dangers of doing this, but Lin Xuan still insisted on doing it.
"Okay, then you should prepare to hibernate immediately. I will start transmitting the information from the database to your brain now."
Bai Bing was about to get the hibernation medication when Lin Xuan stopped her.
"Don't rush, you have to tell me first how long this thing will take to transmit. It can't be hundreds of years or something, right?"
"That's unlikely, but it's hard to say exactly when. It will probably be around 3 to 5 years. If nothing unexpected happens... that should be the case."
Although Bai Bing said that, Lin Xuan felt it was a bit risky.
Integrating the thoughts of all humankind—the sheer scale of that project is unimaginable.
Can the transmission process be interrupted?
"Yes, and even if it's interrupted, a portion will be retained, so don't worry. If there's a real emergency, you can completely interrupt the transmission, finish what you need to do, and then continue transmitting the rest."
"Okay, then wait for me for two days. I have some things to take care of, and then I'll begin to hibernate."
During these two days, Lin Xuan took some time to visit the Mars base, met with Chang Weisi, and gave him some instructions, mainly regarding the delivery of the Space Force's fleet.
After such a long period of time, the three fleets have grown to a considerable size, with more than 5000 star-class warships, 3000 more than the 2000 in the original storyline.
However, Lin Xuan didn't think it was any use, so he kept advising them not to focus all their energy on building warships, but almost no one listened to his advice.
However, some of the more famous warships from the original storyline were still built.
Asian Fleet, Natural Selection.
Asian Fleet, Blue Space.
European Fleet: The Ultimate Law
European Fleet: Unlimited Frontier
In addition, there are more than 5000 starships, including the Deep Space, Enterprise, and Columbia.
Since the current situation is different from the original storyline, Chang Weisi, one of the three seats in the Asian Fleet, will also participate in the battle.
He will personally go to the front lines to command the battle.
This greatly boosted the morale of the space forces of the three fleets. After all, Chang Weisi held a high position even within the fleet internationally, and his personal involvement gave everyone a great deal of confidence. The space forces were also more convinced of their ability to defeat the Trisolaran fleet.
After Lin Xuan learned about this, she probably already knew what Chang Wei was thinking, so she asked Ding Yi to build him a star-class warship called the Navigator.
"Why are you doing this? Fleet International isn't refusing to give me warships, yet you're personally building them for me. It's a bit of a waste of materials," Chang Weisi said with a laugh.
Lin Xuan, on the other hand, seemed completely indifferent.
"It's just an experimental product, and the ship I'm giving you is different; it's a stellar-class warship."
“All 5000 ships in our three fleets are stellar-class warships,” Chang Weisi said.
Lin Xuan shook her head slightly.
"No, they're different. Yours is called a stellar-class warship because it has stellar-class propulsion power, while mine is called stellar-class because it can destroy a star."
Chang Weisi: ? ? ?
"Is it that powerful? What type of weapon does its main cannon use, electromagnetic or beam?"
“I have no weapons,” Lin Xuan replied calmly.
"No weapons?" Chang Weisi's voice involuntarily rose a few decibels.
"Then how does he destroy a star?" Chang Weisi asked, puzzled.
Lin Xuan smiled and said something he hadn't said in a long time.
"It's part of the plan."
Chang Weisi couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Alright, you've already destroyed the PDC, and you're still pretending to be a Wallfacer. You should wake up the last Wallfacer, Dr. Luo Ji, soon, or he might miss the spectacular scene of our three fleets beating up the Trisolarans."
Lin Xuan thought for a moment.
"It seems Taylor is still alive."
Chang Weisi was taken aback, then patted his head.
"Look at my memory, I've forgotten."
Lin Xuan let out a long sigh.
"The Navigator is quite different; it uses cold fusion for its propulsion and nanorobots for its hull."
Ding Yi and Wang Miao did not disappoint Lin Xuan. In the end, Ding Yi successfully developed cold nuclear fusion, realizing the miniaturization of nuclear fusion technology.
The nuclear fusion cars that were developed earlier now have a power supply device.
After completing the construction of the Mars base, Professor Wang Miao has focused his efforts on upgrading nanomaterials.
Ultimately, after Lin Xuan successfully stole the memories of all humanity, he also successfully developed nanorobots.
It is a highly malleable material; to be precise, each nanorobot is an individual.
Operators can use them to construct and repair engineering facilities, making them quite convenient to use.
However, there are still problems. Controlling so many nanobots at the same time is something that ordinary people cannot do. It is necessary to use an AI to increase computing power, and then let people give instructions.
Professor Wang Miao calls this operation "human-machine integration".
You can even perform actions similar to Iron Man with the help of AI.
With a single command, these nanobots will instantly form a suit of steel on your body, and their plasticity is entirely under your control.
However, the drawbacks are also obvious: neither clones nor pseudo-artificial intelligence can complete this operation independently.
Unless someone gives them instructions in advance, it would be difficult for them to build automated nanorobots on their own.
This is actually a good thing, at least humans are not so resistant to clones anymore.
Since Lin Xuan used clones to destroy the entire PDC, people have shown some obvious hostility towards clones.
If you can lose control and destroy PDC today, will you lose control again tomorrow and turn your knife on us?
But the main reason is actually the fear that these people will take their jobs. In addition, Lin Xuan is appearing less and less in the public eye now, and many people have even forgotten who originally wanted to use clones on a large scale in their own country.
However, people no longer have this concern, since their shortcomings are too obvious. Many high-precision tasks still ultimately have to be done by humans.
This reinforced people's belief that they were chosen by God, a race selected by the heavens.
The Trisolarans are nothing but a group of soft-bodied creatures devoid of emotions. Two centuries from now, after their fleet is destroyed by humans, humanity might even consider sending its own fleet to colonize the Trisolarans' home planet.
After completing all the necessary arrangements, Lin Xuan went into hibernation and began the third stage of transmission.
Just a second before he entered hibernation, a shock value notification from Yun Tianming rang in his mind.
Shock value from Yun Tianming +15. Your current total remaining shock value is: 15!