Chapter 11 This is the worst of times
“This is also the worst of times. The gap between the rich and the poor has been stretched to the limit. If Alpha is regarded as a person, the gap between the rich and the poor will be even greater.< br>
Because this is an era without hope and motivation. It is not just as simple as the survival needs of individuals being met
It is also because giant enterprises are bursting out unprecedentedly under the management of AI. Energy, there is no room for individuals to start a business. If you want to engage in any work with scale effects, you cannot compare with giant companies in terms of product quality or product price.
Individuals can only do very personalized things. Take restaurants as an example. In this era, you simply can’t build a restaurant chain brand like KFC or McDonald’s before the New Era.
Not to mention other consumer industries. Even if you are successful in catering and opening individual restaurants, you will not be able to improve your class or even improve your life.
As for other tertiary industries, it is even more depressed. In the creation of literary works, film and television works, humans cannot compare with AI. No matter how talented you are, you still need to start. The starting stage is very painful, filled with millions of It is almost impossible to stand out in AI works.
It is so easy to lie down, but it is extremely difficult to struggle.
This is true for cost-free literary creation, and even less for film and television production that requires some investment.
Even the sports industry has been hit by an unprecedented impact. Because there is no advertising, giant companies have divided their territory and they no longer have the need to advertise. The sports industry can only rely entirely on tickets, and the upper limit of tickets Very very low.
Take football as an example. Stars' long-term high level depends entirely on their own desire to win. This desire to win is easy to say for three to five years, but it is very difficult to maintain for longer. Therefore, some people say that this is an era in which no football champion can be born. ”
Samad seemed particularly emotional.
In Chen Yuanguang’s view, the current situation he mentioned can be summed up in one sentence. In this era, AI has done all the things that humans can do, and also given The lack of a certain level of welfare for human beings has led to a significant increase in the desire to live in peace.
If you don’t live in peace, you can’t break through the class, so I might as well live in peace.
“I don’t even have the motivation to resist.
The bottom level has no motivation to resist, and the top level has no determination to fight against AI. At best, it will leave a few enclaves on the earth.
This is an era without hope, this is the worst era! "Samad is very frustrated. As a professor in the literature department, he has not known any human writers for too long.
There have been many good human works in the past few decades, but he persevered and became a writer. There is no way.
People have too many choices and no one will recognize the author.
This is like Qidian and Tomato. A slightly famous author on Qidian can accumulate a stable audience. Yes, only a few authors at the top of the pyramid can accumulate users on Tomato.
"Why do I feel like this is the end of the Dharma era? Originally, the air was full of spiritual energy. No matter what your qualifications were, you had the opportunity to absorb spiritual energy and become an immortal. Now all the spiritual energy has been taken away by one family, and everyone can only be a mortal.
In this era, Li Chaoren would probably be just an ordinary person and not a superman," Chen Yuanguang thought.
The enclaves mentioned by Samad are one of the few areas on the earth that have not been taken over by AI. Their industries are almost all gray area industries, and they rely entirely on blood transfusions from the upper human society to maintain a high welfare society. .
Because if you don’t maintain a high-welfare society, the people at the bottom will make trouble and want to enter the arms of Alpha.
The servers for mission platforms like Dark Star are placed in these enclaves to avoid Alpha's jurisdiction.
Enclaves are equivalent to the privileged places reserved for themselves by the upper class, and are also hailed by some as a place of hope.
“When a whale is born, everything falls!” Samad concluded in the end.
Chen Yuanguang asked: "Professor, if humans were to rule, would the situation be better?" Samad's face was gloomy and uncertain: "I don't know, I can't predict.
I think it should be an era of hope and despair, an era of greater vitality
But there is no point anymore, Alpha has completed his rule, and it is impossible for humans to take back the power from Alpha. ”
Chen Yuanguang heard the hint of desolation from it, and he finally understood why there are no Internet celebrities in this era, or that everyone is not so enthusiastic about being an Internet celebrity.
Chen Yuanguang is on the Internet I saw a lot of people complaining that you can’t see real beauties on the Internet, all you see are AI-generated pictures.
Because there are no ads, companies don’t place ads, so being an internet celebrity can only rely on rewards. , the reward mechanism is very cruel, and the cake is even smaller.
It is not like the time when he came over, and he could afford to support so many Internet celebrities.
Without advertising, the living space of a large number of industries that rely on advertising for survival has been severely squeezed, and they must either transform or survive.
Chen Yuanguang said: "Because AI has made humans no longer need writers, no one cares about literary history. Doesn't anyone take this course except me?"
Samad replied : "That's not true. Becoming a writer has nothing to do with what classes you take. Even if you know a lot about human literary works, it won't be of much help to you becoming a writer.
Don't come here. This course is simply because it is good now and no one cares about history.
History is to guide the future. Without literature, naturally no one cares about history. ”
Samad sighed: "I am not hostile to Alpha, I am simply disgusted with this hopeless era. Even though humans have built cities on Mars and I have traveled to Mars, I still feel there is no hope.
It is like an extremely beautiful castle made of building blocks. It is stronger and more beautiful than a castle made of sand, but its plasticity is far inferior."
Chen Yuanguang listened to Samad Xuxu read it for a long time, and it was all right. Chen Yuanguang does not think so about the grievances in this society. He feels that this era is already very good, and what Samad mentioned is just some minor problems.
Human beings have rapidly expanded on Mars, are mining on the surface of Venus, and are planning to develop Pluto. For the first time, human beings hope to master the solar system, and material resources will be exhausted in the short term.
Chen Yuanguang feels that these problems are only temporary. When human society begins large-scale space colonization, new vitality will naturally burst out.
He finally mentioned his idea, but Samad's reaction was unexpectedly fierce: "You are too naive.
Even if the day comes for space colonization, it will be artificial intelligence, not humans. Humans only need It would be nice to live a carefree life on Earth.
I don’t know if you have ever visited Mars.
Mars colonization for a hundred years. The permanent population on Mars will not exceed 100,000.
According to normal logic, the current resident population on Mars needs to exceed one million before it can form a naturally reproducing social form. ”
I will definitely make up for the missing chapter later.
(End of this chapter)