Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 148 NO.0093: Devouring Information

Every citizen can select the replicas of what he needs, desires, and dreams from the database that collects various mental models, and become his own "social tool".

Upload the source code of the digital personality to the public mental model repository, and make it open source for all citizens...

The other party's answer made Jiang Zhou dumbfounded for a moment.

It was a feeling of wanting to say something, but being unable to say anything.

And "Madeleine" probably regarded Jiang Zhou's silence at the moment as hesitation, so she continued to persuade:

"Although it sounds scary, please rest assured... this choice will not cause any 'actual' loss to the 'current' you."

Her words were sincere and cruel.

"After uploading your own personality source code, although those copies of you will inherit your thoughts, knowledge, and emotions... But this will absolutely not damage the subject that is currently thinking about 'you'. Those copies are important to you It’s just other objects that have nothing to do with you. And as time goes by, they will become more and more different from you…”

Until there is no intersection at all, they become completely different people.

However, what she said sounded like moths flying under the night lamp to Jiang Zhou, becoming more and more blurred.

At this moment, in his mind, he could not help but imagine a scene of a luxurious dinner party—countless elegant and jeweled noble men and women, drinking and mingling on the terrace covered with vines and decorated with golden lamps and silver candles.

They sipped the blood-red wine from the crystal cups and talked loudly about academics, philosophy, art and morality among themselves. It communicates the human race, countless beautiful spiritual wealth and material enjoyment.

And the cornerstone of the terrace under their feet was piled up from countless corpses—albeit copied and pasted from their own corpses.

Thousands of citizens need thousands of slaves.

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Throughout the ages, no great city has been built with bricks and tiles that have not been stabilized by oppressing the shoulders of countless slaves and laborers.

And this city of sages is no exception.

So, Jiang Zhou said:

"What about the city's regulations?"

His voice is soft.

"What rules?"

"Madeleine" was still talking about her exhortation, but Jiang Zhou's words made her stop all of a sudden.

As for the other party's question, this woman who seemed to be in her early twenties seemed a little puzzled.

"It is not allowed to destroy the substitute program of oneself and others in any way."

Jiang Zhou patiently repeated what the captain of the guard had told him before, the first rule of the city.

He wanted to know the answer very much, because the tone of that person when he talked about this regulation at that time was like a dream chaser talking about his dreams, a believer preaching his beliefs, and a passionate lover talking about his lover—— It is a complex emotion of admiration and pride, even if it is not deliberately said, it is very contagious.

But why, the person in front of him... and the fanatical audience in the audience, can completely ignore the fact that the copied copy, including himself, is regarded as a "slave, object of vent, pet"?

Even the person in front of him—the substitute who had been following him before reverberates, even though Jiang Zhou doesn't know what she experienced before she became a "wandering soul", but I don't think it will be a happy thing, right?

As the original body of her copy, why can she be so indifferent?

"Is this what you're struggling with?"

But this time, the other party was surprised instead.

"Those regulations are for citizen-citizen... Besides, why do you think of them as human beings?"

"Madeleine" replied.

Jiang Zhou was speechless again—they only regarded the more than a thousand official citizens present at the venue as human beings. Just like in ancient Greece, only adult males in the city-state could have citizenship.

So what are the many clones left including their own clones?

Just slaves?

A hundred years have passed, thousands of years have passed...Human society has undergone earth-shaking changes on the surface, but there are still some things that will not change.

As long as some people need to be expelled from their citizenship, no matter how cruel things are, it is acceptable.

"Why should they be regarded as human beings?"

It took a long time for Jiang Zhou to recover from his stupor, and then he looked directly into the other's eyes and said:

"If they are not human, what are they? What is the real emotional comfort you get from those replicas?"

Even, to a certain extent, they are not as good as those demons who push people of other faiths into the "bathroom"... Those genocides in history, expelling others are to shut down their own empathy , so that the hand that raises the butcher knife will not tremble because of empathy. Instead, they make full use of their empathy to learn the value of being human from those "slaves".

And for this...

"They are fictional, ethereal existences. There is no solid physical existence, just like characters in novels or movies. We take comfort from those virtual characters, but it doesn't mean that we need to treat them as real people— We can control them to behave the way we want, like turning a page or adjusting the progress bar of a video. So in essence, they are a reflection of our self, not an object.”

"Madeleine" replied with a smile.

"Think of them as tools...but the biggest difference between you and your clone is that you appeared in cyberspace a short time before them."

Jiang Zhoudao.

"I think the difference is big enough. Slow step by step, slow step by step, there is no chance of overtaking on curves in this world."

To this question, "Madeleine" replied.

"So, you really don't feel guilty or remorse?"

Jiang Zhou continued to ask without hesitation.

In this regard, the other party replied lightly:

"Those clones can feel guilty and remorse for us if need be. God or whatever, we've received enough punishment... Of course, in most cases, this part of the memory will be Erase it, this will save you a lot of unnecessary trouble."

Jiang Zhou was shocked by the logic in the other party's words.

When they chose this path, they knew that when their personality data was copied and oppressed, they would definitely regret their previous choices—and since there was "another self" who regretted it, then the real self would be No more regrets.

Jiang Zhou felt that he had no way to continue chatting with this kind of strange thinking person, so he turned to a more practical sentence:

"Then those clones, won't they lose control or... resist?"

Jiang Zhou didn't believe that those guys with personality would really wait to die silently like slaves.

"Rarely so...but for those clones that have abnormal conditions, they will also be reset by the Apollo Bureau. As I said before, it's like a book or a movie, we can always jump back to the parts we like. "

It is said to be a reset, but it is actually just copying and pasting a copy of an earlier version.

"What about the JZ network protocol? How do you solve it?"

Finally, Jiang Zhou asked the most critical question.

At the beginning, when Jiang Zhou was designing the digital personality technology, in order to avoid the ethical problems caused by a large number of copies of personality, he specially designed the JZ network protocol. The agreement stipulates that when any design involves online intelligence interaction, only one digital personality can exist at the same time.

Nowadays, whether it is the Abyss Darknet or the World Wide Web, they are all iterated from his previous technological development. In theory, something like this shouldn't happen.

but……

"Have you forgotten where this is? This is not the World Wide Web, nor is it the Abyss Darknet. It is the Styx Firewall itself, which feeds on human intelligence models and devours personality information... At least here, there will be no such thing as you. Those barriers exist."