As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 336 Incredible Skills
"Virtual reality is just a small part of the change, and the subsequent changes will only get faster and faster."

As the investor who provided Zheng Li with the initial start-up resources after coming to Blue Star, Lei Jun has already made back this investment hundreds and thousands of times.

When Lei Jun wants to meet Zheng Li, Zheng Li will give him face most of the time.

Although most of the time it was not Zheng Li himself who communicated with Lei Jun, but artificial intelligence.

If measured by Blue Star's Turing test, the primary artificial intelligence of the Mage Alliance can pass the Turing test.

This time when Lei Jun came, it was Zheng Li who appeared in person to talk to him.

Because Lei Jun has some of the official will of China in him.

Although he came for himself and for rice, there must be official instructions behind it.

Zheng Li could guess that every word he said to Lei Jun would be told to the Chinese side by Lei Jun exactly as it was.

Lei Jun is not him, he has the ability to turn the table over at any time. Rice cannot exist without the Chinese market.

Therefore, it is particularly important to act within the rules of the game.

However, Lei Jun's awareness of the current situation is also reflected here. Before the conversation began, he emphasized that he would report the content of their conversation to the Chinese authorities.

In addition, without Academician Zhao, Lei Jun was much more relaxed than last time:
"Everyone has a different perspective. To me, this is a major crisis concerning the life and death of rice, but to you, it is just part of the change."

Zheng Li nodded and said, "The virtual reality world is very important for the changes in Blue Star in the past, but looking at the present from the perspective of the future, it seems that the present is just the prelude to change."

Lei Jun: "I think if Blue Star relies on itself, virtual reality technology like the one I experienced may not be realized in a hundred years."

Zheng Li smiled: "One hundred years? At least five hundred years.

And this is without taking any detours.

Blue Star's progress in biotechnology is much slower than in other disciplines.

Virtual reality is almost impossible to achieve with silicon-based chips.

The ceiling for silicon-based chips is obvious, but for carbon-based chips, at least so far, no ceiling has been found.

Bluestar needs to switch from silicon-based chips to carbon-based chips, and at the same time, it needs to develop without taking detours along the way.”

After Zheng Li finished speaking, Lei Jun added: "It seems that five hundred years is an optimistic estimate.

So have you ever thought about whether the people of Blue Star and the entire Blue Star society would be able to accept the technology that will be available five hundred years from now?"

Zheng Li asked back: "Does this have anything to do with me?

I did not cause large-scale damage to the Blue Planet, nor did I harm the lives of the Blue Planet's people.

On the contrary, I brought knowledge to Blue Planet that is much more advanced than yours.

From the perspective of civilization, I have helped Blue Star civilization evolve."

Lei Jun knew that he had said something wrong, and he quickly explained, "I don't mean to blame you at all.

Or maybe it means something else, I just want to hear your opinion on this incident from the perspective of the clash of civilizations. "

Zheng Li nodded and said, "I understand."

Li Miaomiao, who was also in the conference room, explained:

“Brother, I think the leapfrog development of technology is undoubtedly a good thing for the grassroots.

The previously solidified classes were broken down again, giving the classes an opportunity to flow again.

More importantly, the leapfrog development of technology can bring benefits to every individual involved.

Modern people, even those at the lower class, can enjoy a better quality of life than the scholar-official class in ancient times.

The modern middle class can have more material satisfaction and spiritual enjoyment than anyone in ancient times.

These are all caused by the advancement of science and technology leading to the development of productivity.”

After seeing the virtual reality equipment, Li Miaomiao thought a lot about the impact virtual reality would have based on her own experience.

Ultimately, only the further development of productivity will produce new social relations and make society more fair and reasonable.

This is true no matter which region.

Take China for example. The truth system has tied a sword of Damocles to the grassroots. If they cross the bottom line, they can easily be caught.

Nowadays, large traditional media are not afraid of having no news, but they are afraid of fake news. They dare to publish some shocking incidents that happen spontaneously, as long as the whistleblower is willing to accept a systematic investigation into the truth.

This makes the grassroots ecology in China much better than it was ten years ago, let alone thirty or forty years ago.

The credibility brought by technology is more effective than any amount of publicity.

Lei Jun: "Actually, I am not here for rice. I don't know what rice will become in the future.

But I am confident that with the wisdom and hard work of the Rice people, we will still be able to achieve success in the new era.

I came here for myself, and I am confused about the future. As the helmsman of a giant enterprise, if I cannot make the right strategic decisions, it will be the greatest irresponsibility for the future of the entire rice industry.

So I came here mainly to talk to you, but of course Miaomiao’s views are also very insightful.”

Lei Jun really didn't have much hope of being able to continue working with Zheng Li in the virtual reality world.

In his opinion, the cake is too big and it is not the turn of either DaMi or Tencent.

Only the Chinese government can have a piece of this cake.

His most urgent purpose this time was to understand Zheng Li's ideas and what he wanted to transform Blue Star into.

Lei Jun had no doubt that Zheng Li had the ability and motivation.

Even if the forces of Blue Star are unwilling to cooperate with Zheng Li, they cannot stop individuals' yearning for a better life.

The most fundamental reason why China turned a big disadvantage into a small disadvantage in the public opinion field is that the Chinese people's perception of life is getting better. Therefore, in Lei Jun's opinion, Blue Star has no resistance to virtual reality and other advanced technologies of dimensionality reduction.

He wanted to know what the future would look like in Zheng Li's eyes.

No one can know what the future holds better than an intelligent being from a more advanced civilization.

This is just like when American angel investors came to China to invest in the Internet industry, because they knew what kind of track would be popular and what kind of companies would survive.

Although American Internet companies have not been able to adapt to the Chinese environment to a certain extent, American investment institutions have made a lot of money.

This is the difference caused by the difference in vision, just like the wealthy people in China investing in real estate in Ho Chi Minh City.

Only by experiencing it can you know what will happen in the future.

“What kind of future do you want?”

Zheng Li thought for a moment and said, "I will change the world according to my own ideas while respecting the people of Blue Star.

The most valuable thing about BlueStar to me is its talents, especially those who can inspire and help me in scientific research.

I hope that Blue Star’s value system can be tilted towards scientific research, and will do so in the future.

I will use all the money I earn from virtual reality technology and some subsequent new technologies for research and development.

But I will lead and be deeply involved in all R&D projects.

We can also cooperate with various countries on some R&D projects.

My understanding of technology routes and sensitivity to scientific research will definitely help Blue Star's overall technological level achieve leapfrog development.

Without me, even if you already have a virtual reality organism, it would ideally take you a hundred years to reverse engineer the biological computer technology.

It will take at least two hundred years to reverse engineer virtual reality and achieve a virtual reality technology with similar effects.

I can give these technologies directly to Blue Star, but this is a process of equal exchange. Blue Star needs to provide technologies that I think are valuable in exchange.

As long as I think it's valuable.

This is cooperation, and it can achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two.”

Lei Jun asked, "I wonder if you have read The Dark Forest Theory, which is the most famous science fiction novel in China in the past forty years."

Zheng Li nodded and said, “I have seen it.

The Dark Forest is based on the two premises that all civilizations in the universe are unable to transform planets, and that planets with life are rare and special.

In fact, life-bearing planets are not as special as the people on Blue Star think. Just from the cosmic coordinate system and the Hubble constant, you should be able to see that there are actually many planets in the entire universe that are suitable for the survival of intelligent life.

And not all life is as fragile as the people on Blue Star.

The ecological environment of Mars is completely suitable for the survival of some intelligent life forms.

The second is resources. After achieving breakthroughs in energy technology, the energy in the universe is actually infinite.

Coupled with planetary mining technology, there is no need to worry about resources at all.

And another key issue is that civilization does not always expand.

Endogenous problems are inevitable in all civilizations.

Civilizations that can transcend their native planet and become interstellar civilizations are rare.

Most civilizations have perished before they have taken this step.

It's a very simple truth. If we only observe many developed countries on the blue planet, we will find that the fertility rate in developed countries is declining.

Civilizations that are more developed than Blue Planet have even lower fertility rates.

This kind of civilization relies entirely on technology to create the next generation, and this process is completely controllable.

So civilization is not expanding forever, and resources are actually infinite.

Destroying or enslaving other civilizations is a very low-level practice, and generally civilizations that can enter the interstellar age will not do such things. "

After listening to it, Lei Jun felt that there was some truth to it, but he did not completely believe what Zheng Li said.

"Also, if I were you now, I could completely control the people in key positions and colonize the entire Blue Planet.

But this is not necessary.

The wealth and resources of Blue Star are of no value to me.

The only thing that is valuable to me about Blue Star is the knowledge that I don't know.

This is what I want, and this is what Blue Star can give me."

Zheng Li's last words were spoken through Lei Jun's mouth.

Lei Jun was clearly conscious, but found that he could not control his body, and at the same time, his own words echoed in his mind.

After Zheng Li finished speaking, Lei Jun moved his tongue and knew that he could control his body again:

"Amazing skills."

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