Earth Era - v2 Chapter 304
Unless it is a **** who is truly omniscient and omnipotent, it is impossible for all other beings to know what the end point of natural evolution is. ∈↗, since you don’t know it, you can’t set it.
This is not something that can be randomly set, and every step of evolution has to be extremely precise and clear, otherwise the robots will not know what to do. It just doesn’t make sense to set the first step of evolution as interplanetary travel, and then the second step as faster-than-light travel. If it is set like this, I am afraid that all the robots will die and they will not be able to find the correct path by exhaustive method. The correct setting method must be refined. For example, this step-by-step evolution will evolve the material performance to how, and the next step will evolve the propeller performance to how. This setting is meaningful.
Therefore, there is no way for him to set things that the genius does not know. That is to say, no matter how long the robots have evolved, their technological level cannot exceed the knowledge range of the genius. And if that’s the case, why let the robots evolve? Wouldn’t it be nice to just create the most advanced robot within the scope of your knowledge from the very beginning?
As for whether the number of robots is enough to use the exhaustive method, Xiao Yun also has some ideas of his own. Xiao Yun denied this possibility after a simple calculation.
The so-called exhaustive means that every possibility must be tried, otherwise it cannot be called exhaustive. Then there is an example as follows. There are 266 people in a group. Divide them into any combination between one and two hundred and sixty-six, that is, one person is a combination, and any two people are also a combination. combination. any three. four. Ten, fifty, can be regarded as a combination, so… how many combinations are there?
This is a very simple arithmetic problem, and the final calculation result is a total of two combinations of the 266th power. And how big is this number?
According to estimates by scientists, all the mass and energy in the universe, after conversion according to the theory of relativity, are roughly equivalent to ten atoms to the eightieth power. And… the number of two to the power of two hundred and sixty-six is ​​just a bit larger than the number of eighty to the power of ten. In other words… just a collective of 266 people. The number of different combinations between them is already more than the number of atoms in the entire universe, so what about in specific scientific research?
The research and development of a new material may require adding many different elements and compounds in different proportions. The content of these added elements is uncertain, the smelting time is uncertain, and the sequence is uncertain. Under the circumstance that they are all uncertain… How many combinations are there between them?
This is an incredible, incalculable number, and it must be more than the number of different combinations between the collective of two hundred and sixty-six people. So in this case, how can the infinitely replicating robots use the exhaustive method to exhaust all these possibilities? Without exhausting all the possibilities. How can they know which combination is correct and optimal?
The development of just one new material consumes all the energy of all robots. Using the exhaustive method, it is impossible to use all the substances in the entire universe to make robots. This is just the research and development of a material, and even this obstacle cannot be overcome, let alone real technological evolution. .
So… based on the above two points, Xiao Yun knows that it is not feasible to rely on the exhaustive method and the combination of clear evolutionary goals to allow robots to produce continuous evolution, even beyond the scope of the manufacturer’s own knowledge. No one can do this, even if the genius is the most outstanding of all intelligent beings in the universe, he can’t do it.
These are the two most likely successful conjectures that Xiao Yun has thought of at present, but these two conjectures were all rejected by Xiao Yun in the follow-up in-depth thinking.
While thinking about it, Xiao Yun made some improvements to the second evolution method and added some restrictions. The basic idea of ​​these improvements is that the exhaustive method is actually the most inefficient way to try, and there are many combinations that are actually unnecessary to try. For example, if a person makes a food without knowing it, since he knows nothing about it, the ingredients of this food may be any kind of thing in the universe, including a A mass of hydrogen gas, an iron-rich asteroid fragment, or something like some liquid, or the soil on the planet, or even the feces excreted by some lifeforms… These things may be used to make this kind of food. One of the required ingredient combinations.
In an exhaustive way, the person would need to try all the infinite combinations of all the forms of matter in the universe. This is an unimaginably huge number. Even if this person has a lifespan of one thousand trillion years and has substances equivalent to one thousand trillion universes for him to use, it is impossible for him to make this delicacy in the end. The reason is very simple. There are so many combinations. It is impossible to try all the combinations within the time frame that human beings can understand.
In this example, it can be clearly seen that there are many combinations that are meaningless. For example, the combination between hydrogen and ammonia is meaningless. Obviously, this combination cannot make a delicious food. Iron ore and The combination of soil is also meaningless, and on top of that, there are combinations of wood and plastic, carbon dioxide and methane, and copper ore… blah, blah, blah, those combinations are meaningless.
But the most crucial point is that this person knows nothing about this food, and since he doesn’t know anything, it is impossible for him to know which combinations make sense and which ones don’t. Putting it on the research and development of new materials by infinite replication robots, it is impossible for infinite replication robots to know which combination is meaningful and which combination is meaningless.
However, the infinite replica robot doesn’t know which combinations make sense and which ones don’t, and it doesn’t mean that the genius doesn’t know either. He might be able to set a simple filtering rule like he wants to make gourmet food, but like the person who is very confused in the face of infinite combinations of materials, he can set a simple rule of “use only the products of the earth” for him, and he can remove the earth All other combinations of substances are excluded, reducing the number of combinations he faces countless times. If you add another rule on top of this rule, such as “the main ingredient must use organic substances”, then the number of combinations that this person faces will be reduced countless times, because this rule removes all inorganic substances in the main ingredient combination. All eliminated.
In the same way, the genius can set a rule for those robots who are struggling with the development of new materials, “take iron as the main body, and the other trace elements should not exceed 1% at most”, then countless combinations will be excluded. Because the number of combinations is reduced, it becomes possible for robots to use exhaustive methods to develop new materials.
It’s just… this is only to solve the obstacle of developing new materials, but the development of science and technology is not just as simple as developing new materials. And since this is the case, the genius needs to set some rules for each branch of science in the development of science and technology to exclude meaningless combinations, then the genius will face the original problem of how he is beyond his own knowledge. Domain tech setting rules?
The amount of knowledge of that genius must be limited. Within the scope of his knowledge, he can certainly set detailed rules to help robots evolve and avoid meaningless and exhaustive combinations, but when the technology of robots develops to be comparable to him, How should he set it up? He has no way of setting it. That is to say, the road of exhaustive evolution by adding restrictive rules still does not work.
So… Is there such a rule? This rule runs through the entire development of science. It is applicable to people in the wild age, and it is still applicable to people in the interstellar age, even if it faces Is there such a fundamental rule that people also apply when sailing across river systems?
If the genius discovers this fundamental rule and applies it to the infinite replica robot, so that the infinite replica robot can use this rule to eliminate useless combinations in the early stage of evolution, and after it evolves to be more advanced than the genius himself This rule can still be used to achieve exhaustive evolution. Isn’t it possible for robots to evolve without self-consciousness and scientific systems?
So…what exactly is this rule?
In addition to the speculation of “adding restriction rules to help exhaustive evolution”~www.mtlnovel.com~ Xiao Yun made a total of three speculations about the self-evolution of robots. Apart from these three, Xiao Yun has been thinking hard for several months and has not found a new way of evolution. Among the three guesses, Xiao Yun believes that the combination between the third evolutionary method and the “fundamental rule that runs through the entire science” is the most likely. So Xiao Yun’s thinking focused on “what are the fundamental rules that run through the entire science”.
But Xiao Yun couldn’t figure out what exactly this rule was. Xiao Yun thinks about it when he is resting, thinks about it when he eats, thinks about it every moment, and even thinks that he is mentally weak and must rely on strong anesthetics to fall asleep. Xiao Yun still can’t think of what this rule is.
Without this rule, robots cannot achieve self-evolution. The genius has almost certainly allowed the robots to evolve themselves, which means that the genius thought of this rule. But… Xiao Yun couldn’t think of it. (To be continued.)
ps: The writing of these two chapters today is a bit laborious… (www..)