Start a Subspace - Chapter 212

Zhang Ran took a deep breath and said slowly: “The recent Unreal Lab 1.0 has been very effective, and it can continuously cultivate excellent engineers for human civilization. These engineers are often very innovative and adaptable to different situations. This kind of engineering needs. It is indeed an epoch-making technology.”

“I heard that the average grades of students in major colleges and universities have also improved to a certain extent. No matter how much the improvement is, it is always meaningful.”

“However, there are still many difficulties we face. For example, the proportion of super geniuses in the second generation is not as good as that of the first generation, that is, we are facing a problem of IQ regression… The first generation The average IQ can reach 120, 130, and some can reach more than 200, but what about the next generation?”

“The next generation is only at the level of 5 million. How many super geniuses are there?”

The 45 million people of the first generation are carefully selected from 7 billion people, and the population base is equivalent to 7 billion.

But the second generation is born and raised, and there have been almost five million children over the years. There is no way to compare the bases of 7 billion and 5 million.

Parents with high IQs may not necessarily produce children with high IQs, and overall IQs will shift toward the average level.

A good educational method can increase IQ and raise the lower limit, but it cannot raise the upper limit. The upper limit of most people is a qualified space engineer, and it is really powerless for them to become scientists, engage in scientific research, and gain insight into the truth of nature.

The real super genius requires a huge population size to be more likely to appear.

And now what humanity needs are super geniuses who can break through the limits of technology… more super geniuses.

Thinking of this, everyone frowned and was speechless.

Zhang Ran finally sighed: “There is no shortage of productivity for the time being, so how should we solve the population problem? If our generation dies, the number of scientists will be very few, so it is very good to maintain the existing technology. We humans may have no more room for improvement.”

“The most important thing is that people today don’t have children at all.”

Zhang Ran’s words are very true.

The more advanced the technology and the more branches, the more super geniuses are needed.

For example, the maintenance and upgrade of the Universal Factory is the responsibility of the team led by Lin Qiuyue, which requires an enormous amount of knowledge and years of training.

There are more than 300 members in the group, all of whom are super geniuses with an IQ of more than 160. If these 300 people die of old age, or some kind of accident occurs, then the factory will not be able to be updated.

Descendants want to maintain the operation of the universal factory, but can they be so-so, upgrade and update? Don’t even think about it!

Talent determines the upper limit of intelligence!

The same is true for the universal factory, and the same is true for the rest of the industries.

For example, a branch of mathematics, symplectic geometry, is only done by two or three mathematicians, a very unpopular subject.

Math, which sometimes seems pointless, is at the top of the academic chain of contempt.

No matter how the laws of physics change in each universe, mathematics is still mathematics.

But if these researchers died, future generations would only be able to find out about symplectic geometry by looking up documents in the database, but in the absence of people to communicate with, the difficulty of self-taught is undoubtedly higher than one level.

After a moment of silence, Zhang Ran said again: “The current population is still too small. Unless the number of residents in Kunlun Mountain reaches 1 billion, and through excellent education methods, the number of super geniuses can be equal to the first generation.”

“But as far as the current birth rate is concerned, it is completely impossible. The current birth rate is only 1.2%, and it is decreasing year by year. In the long run, the population is going backwards.”

“Everyone should think about how to solve this problem. Now we are in the third stage of interstellar civilization, and we have to improve to the fourth stage… If you don’t think about it now, it will be too late.”

There was silence in the small room for a moment. Zhou Chengfeng and other government officials had actually put forward quite a few ideas on this issue.

But it doesn’t make much sense!

Several years ago, after people’s living standards were improved to a certain extent, many policies to stimulate fertility have been promulgated, including nurseries, free diapers for infants and young children, free milk powder, centralized robot nursery rooms, etc. The effect is still not the same.

With the exception of a small baby boom brought on by the war, the fertility rate has almost never risen.

A demographer shook his head: “Because having children will not bring any benefits. In ancient times, the benefits of a child were greater than the consumption of raising children, so the more children, the better.”

“And right now, there is no financial benefit to having a baby.”

“Actually, once the fertility welfare promulgated by the government reaches a certain level, it is of little significance. The fertility problem has existed since the earth, and no country has ever solved it.”

“On a more fundamental level, the genetic philosophical system that humans follow, such as the traditional family system, concept of fertility, and concept of parenting, are increasingly incompatible with the highly productive interstellar industrial era.”

“That’s right.” Zhang Ran sighed, “If it were me, I would have more than one birth. In the era of high wealth, it seems that the inheritance of the lineage is not as important as it used to be.”

“If the productivity continues to be released, people will be able to live under the care of robots throughout their lives, from birth to death… People can have a high degree of freedom to do the work they want to accomplish, pursue their own beliefs, and some People spend their whole lives just to write a masterpiece, and some people spend their whole lives promoting the small progress of the Universal Factory, or making a game that can endure for a long time, or under the condition of worry about food and clothing. , to solve a world-class mathematical problem.”

“This may be a true portrayal of the communist society of the future… The total freedom of individuals and the progress of civilization are sometimes not contradictory.”

“It’s really reached that point. In fact, even if I no longer develop upwards, I don’t care.”

Zhang Ran’s words changed: “But we haven’t reached that time yet. How can we solve the problems we are currently facing? I still want to reach the level of a fourth-level civilization in my lifetime.”

“You also know that the fourth-level civilization is a big threshold. According to the information given by the Green Star civilization, the fourth-level civilization has greatly improved in terms of human-machine integration. Our current virtual world technology does not directly affect the nerves, but only Stay on the original perceptual level such as eyes and ears.”

“However, the fourth-level civilization has made a leap in the biological level, that is, it has the technology related to the brain in a vat. This technology has a great impact on human-computer interaction, including the improvement of intelligence, which is equivalent to everyone’s brain. A computer is installed in each.”

“So there needs to be a planetary computer to connect all the information. It’s equivalent to the central brain.”

“Also, the fourth-level civilization discovered a theory related to blue matter. Blue matter should be a kind of dark matter that can exceed the speed of light in the high-dimensional universe. As long as blue matter can be used, it can not only detect and communicate at the speed of light. Everyone knows what that means?”

“We naturally know these things.” Lin Qiuyue glanced at him and said helplessly: “But you must know that the past fourth-level civilization was built on the basis of a population of 10 billion, 100 billion, and long-term great wealth. .”

“Just like the population at the peak of the Green Star civilization exceeded 100 billion, the Green Star people are fundamentally stronger than us.”

“Our ability to innovate and level of wealth cannot be compared with these civilizations. Moreover, we have just entered the third-level civilization, and have not yet formed our own industrial system. It is impossible to reach the sky in one step.”

Zhang Ran was a little embarrassed by what she said. But to be honest, the Green Stars are stronger than humans.

Some of the current social systems and directions of human beings are improved according to the template of Green Star.

The genetic memory of the Green Stars has led to a very clear division of labor. As soon as they are born, they know what they should do. This memory line will continue to strengthen, giving them a sense of happiness and satisfaction, just like a fisherman who always likes fishing and loves fishing. fishing industry.

Humans have no genetic memory, and newborns are born in a daze, resulting in most people having no hobbies at all. The direction of human happiness is often the direction of degeneration, and the direction of civilization and progress.

“It’s not always the case. In fact, genetic memory sometimes hinders innovation. Therefore, Green Star people are divided into two types: complete genetic memory and incomplete genetic memory.”

“Can we inherit memories? Can we crack their mysteries?”

“No, no, unless we can completely decipher the mysteries of genes. Even a fourth-level civilization may not be able to do this ~www.mtlnovel.com~ may require a fifth-level civilization to modify genes at will.”

The crowd discussed for about an hour, but they discussed something.

Council President Zhou Chengfeng said: “Let me summarize everyone’s views. The first is to develop science and technology to improve intelligence. This should be difficult. It may only be achieved by a fourth-level civilization. But we can work hard. After all, we have Sakurai who can do it. The cloned psyker, with the factor D component in her blood, not only prolongs life, but keeps the brain in a youthful and active state.”

“The New Humanity Project has made good progress after so many years…”

“The second is to increase the life expectancy of the population and let our first generation live longer. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. This is also related to the New Humanity Project.”

“The third is naturally to expand the size of the population. The more people there are, the more geniuses there are. This requires artificial womb technology to make progress, and the current progress is not bad.”

Almost all the pressure is concentrated in the new human laboratory, biology, human beings look forward to epoch-making biology!

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