Earth Era

After Xiao Yun's thinking reached this point, he finally encountered an insurmountable obstacle. At this time, Xiao Yun changed his thinking and began to think about the scientific and technological development model of human civilization.

For a swarm intelligent civilization like human civilization, the development of science and technology does not actually require the existence of a rule that runs through the entire scientific development. This is the most fundamental difference from robots. Because people have the ability to associate and speculate, humans have wisdom. Wisdom allows humans to flexibly choose different solutions when facing different problems. Robots cannot be intelligent, so they can only rely on a rule that can be used throughout the entire scientific development to improve technology.

But if we compare the development of robot technology according to the technological development track of intelligent civilization, we will fall into the same vicious circle as before: "The reason why robots need a fundamental rule is precisely because they have no intelligence. If robots have intelligence If so, what else do we need that fundamental rule for?”

The attempt to find fundamental rules based on the scientific and technological development track of intelligent civilization has once again failed, because the scientific and technological development model of human civilization and the scientific and technological development model of robots are not comparable. So far, Xiao Yun still has not made any breakthrough on the question of "what are the fundamental rules?"

More than four years have passed slowly. During this period, General Emmerk and his staff team have conducted extensive analysis of the possible situations they may face and formulated an extremely complete combat plan. What made Xiao Yun feel a little worried was that all the strategies formulated by General Emerk were all aimed at facing that genius. Obviously, General Emerk and his team believed that the robot group was under the control of that genius. As long as they thoroughly studied the psychology and command style of that genius, their side would definitely not be able to fail.

In other words, General Emerk believes that the enemy he is about to face is a truly intelligent creature. Even if it is not a human being, it belongs to the same category of intelligent life as humans. What he is facing... is not something that relies on program logic. And the robot is running.

But... what if these robots do not belong to the genius commander, but have their own independent combat systems? Just as Xiao Yun thinks at this moment, those robots do not rely on that genius to upgrade their technology, but rely on some method that they have not yet mastered to upgrade their technology... So what should we do? Doesn’t this mean that all of General Emmerk’s arrangements and decisions were wrong from the beginning?

Xiao Yun once expressed his worries to General Emerk, but General Emerk said: "Xiao Yun, do you know? The most taboo thing about war is to be inconsistent. If you always hesitate between different choices, then It can only lead to insufficient preparation in both aspects, and failure will become inevitable when we face it. Since I originally chose the speculation that "robots rely on geniuses to upgrade their technology and evolve, and are under the control of geniuses," then I will I will unswervingly follow this path, and all strategies I formulate will be based on this speculation. Unless you can find strong enough evidence to falsify this."

So Xiao Yun knew that before he figured out the fundamental rule, any words of persuasion would be of no use to General Emerk.

Time was still passing by little by little, and the huge fleet led by General Emerk finally crossed the long journey of nearly nine light years, from the Laqa galaxy to the Lager 728 galaxy.

The main star of the Lager 728 galaxy is a red dwarf. Its mass is only about 40% of the sun, but its planetary system is extremely rich. It has three rocky planets. In addition, In addition, there is a huge asteroid belt around it, and a huge gas planet with a mass four times the mass of Jupiter. The expedition fleet stayed at a place 100 billion kilometers away from the Lage 728 star, and was on guard here.

Seen from this distance, Lager 728 is just a dim light spot in the sky. It is impossible to see any details of it with the naked eye, nor can it see the planets in this star system. Although the distance between the expedition fleet and it has shortened from nearly nine light years to less than 100 billion kilometers at this moment, it is still unknown to the expedition fleet.

Before the expedition fleet came here, no creation of human civilization had come here. It is an unexplored virgin land, just like most of the shining stars in the night sky, people have only seen it but not touched it.

The expedition fleet obviously would not enter this star system rashly. So under the order of General Emerk, a large number of detectors left the fleet and began to set off for the Lager 728 system, and a large number of astronomical telescopes also began to work. General Emerk tried to collect enough data before taking the next step.

"We believe that a distance of 100 billion kilometers is the safest, because we have basically determined that there is no functional classification of these robots. The gap between any two robots is extremely small, that is to say, there is no There is some kind of dedicated logistics type robot that is used to reserve supplies. This is different from the combat spaceships of our human civilization, because our combat spaceships can store a lot of supplies, and our combat radius can be greatly expanded. And the robots The combat radius will be severely restricted by the reserve materials, resulting in an extremely limited combat radius. Therefore, if those robots want to take the initiative to attack us, we can just wait here and wait for their arrival. "

The conjecture that "all robots are basically the same" was jointly surmised by Xiao Yun and General Emerk's staff team. Xiao Yun believes that if robots evolve into different categories and cooperate with each other strictly according to their division of labor, it will exceed the scope of what the program code can carry. In other words, the "wisdom" of robots is not enough to carry such complex things. , that can only be achieved by artificial intelligence with true self-independent consciousness. In terms of reliability and convenience, a comprehensive robot that can act independently and fight independently has a stronger survivability - at least better than a cooperative robot.

Xiao Yun's speculation was supported by the staff team and scientific advisory team, so this became public opinion.

The above words were made by a combat staff officer. These words seemed very reasonable, but Xiao Yun felt that these words were a bit ridiculous. The reason is simple... Those robots are indeed unable to carry too much supplies due to their own size and mass, but just because of this, will their combat radius be limited? Xiao Yun doesn't think so.

Don't forget, the robots themselves are also supplies... When faced with long-range operations and insufficient supplies, they can completely disassemble the bodies of similar types to use as resources to drive their own operations - there is no such thing as sacrifice or death for robots. They have no emotions and no independent self-awareness. When the program concludes that "it should self-destruct and use its own materials to support the operation of other robots," they will immediately destroy themselves without hesitation - even if it results in What does it matter if their numbers are reduced to ten percent of their original size?

Assume that the number of robots that the expedition fleet can deal with at the same time is 10 trillion, and then chooses to stay far away to wait for work, but what if the number of robots sent by the robot army is as high as 20 trillion? In this way, even if their number drops to 10% of the original number, their number is still as high as 20 trillion, which is still beyond the limit that the expedition fleet can handle. Therefore, the so-called waiting for work in leisure is actually of no use.

Facing Xiao Yun's rebuttal, General Emerk just smiled faintly: "Xiao Yun, you are not a soldier, you can't understand this. War is not a simple number game, but a probability problem. It is not like mathematics. Precise and absolute. Therefore, as long as there is a way to weaken the enemy, try to weaken the enemy. The weaker the enemy, the greater our probability of winning - even if our probability of winning only increases from 1% to 1%. Two, this is also a huge improvement, do you understand?”

Xiao Yun chose silence and stopped talking.

"Same." General Emerk sighed and said, "Probabilities are high and low. At the same time, there are many possible situations, but we can only have one choice. So... this is the only one. What should I choose? I believe... any rational commander will choose the possibility with the highest probability."

Xiao Yun understood General Emerk's choice, and it was precisely because of his understanding that many words in Xiao Yun's heart could not be spoken. After hesitating for a while, Xiao Yuncai finally sighed and said: "Then, General Emerk, you must at least promise me one thing. Before the situation of the Lager 728 galaxy is clearly detected...don't act rashly. Although I haven’t speculated on the robot’s self-evolution mechanism yet, but I’ve already vaguely felt it… If we act rashly, we are likely to cause irreparable consequences.”

"Xiao Yun, don't worry." General Emerk patted Xiao Yun's shoulder and said, "I know this even if you don't tell me. Any decision I make may determine the life or death of the entire fleet. In this kind of situation, Under the circumstances...how can I dare to act rashly?" (To be continued~^~)