Eden’s work, “Mechanical Frenzy” was soon released on Fisherman’s Cup.
The Fisherman's Cup received more and more submissions, and the types were more diverse. Novelists seemed to regard Blue Star as a place of enlightenment, and used all kinds of tricks. Xi Yujin had to spend a lot of time reading manuscripts every day, which was really a sweet burden.
He noticed that Ganuo was not taking notes, but writing down some fragments. He was very curious, but he didn't dare to ask because of privacy, so he could only look at Ganuo intentionally or unintentionally. He didn't notice that they were always very close, so these glances were also very obvious, almost a pure provocation, and Xi Yujin himself was unaware of it.
After being watched for so long, Ganuo had an inexplicable urge to take away Yu Jin. He suppressed these strange instincts and completed his work with difficulty.
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Ou Yu has been searching for articles on the Blue Star Fisherman's Cup recently. He just came to the Intelligent Machinery Forum recently and found that any work that pays tribute to Blue Star literature is always more imaginative and has more original vitality, which made him fall in love with it at first sight. He was very curious about the literary origin that influenced so many novelists, so he specially found the page of the Fisherman's Cup.
“Hahaha, this short story is so funny!”
"Wow, this narrative angle is tricky and fascinating."
"This fairy tale is also very interesting! There are so many good novels here!" Ou Yu opened his optical brain with satisfaction, "It is worthy of being an important event on Blue Star. It attracts excellent novelists, and each essay is very unique. Moreover, it adopts an anonymous system. Novelists are freed from the constraints of pen names and are more willing to boldly use their imagination. My spiritual food in the near future is the Fisherman Cup."
At this time, it was suddenly surprised to find that the Fisherman Cup actually had two tracks. It was eager to read the articles as soon as it arrived, and kept wandering around in the field of "Nebula Fantasy". It curiously clicked into "Old Dreams Replay" and saw that there were articles about time travel here. It was so surprised that its jaw dropped, and it had a deeper understanding of the tolerance of Blue Star literature.
Ou Yu glanced at the title of an article and was immediately attracted by its one-sentence introduction.
"Machine Frenzy": tells the story of another possible line of development between humans and machines in the era of isolated planets.
Lonely Week!
Humans and machines!
All these keywords stimulate its retina, and the hand is faster than the brain, and it directly clicks in to view. This novel has received many responses, and the number is still rising.
The opening of "Machine Frenzy" tells the background of the times.
As the world develops rapidly, robots have gradually entered the public eye as human beings' right-hand men. Humans marvel at their tough bodies, high-speed computing, and tireless endurance. But humans also feel a little uneasy about this - will robots replace humans?
In order to increase sales of various types of robots, the world's largest robot manufacturing association announced that all robots' factory settings must follow three major principles.
1. Never allow harm to come to human beings, either directly or through negligence.
2. Under the premise of the first principle, obey the orders of human beings.
3. Under the premise of the first and second principles, protect yourself.
"It's really a robot!" Ou Yu said in surprise. "Setting three principles for robots that don't have any intelligence yet, is it telling the story of the predecessor of the intelligent machine race? Which novelist is so bold?"
Some readers responded: "It is definitely a Blue Star novelist. There have been rumors on the forum before that Blue Star has a connection with the ancestors of the Omnics... Just think about it, what kind of brain circuit dares to write about being the ancestor of robots?"
Because the historical origins of many creatures are very chaotic, their technological development levels are quite jumpy, and they may be born in spaceships, have never experienced any moral dilemmas in mechanical development, and will not think about what to do if machines develop minds. In their view, machines with minds are equivalent to creatures invaded by the intelligent machine race.
However, the original robot, suspected to be the ancestor of the intelligent machine race, was set with three major principles when it left the factory?
Only Blue Star novelists dare to play like this!
"Now I'm just curious about who wrote it. Eden? Never heard of it?"
"Because this is an anonymous submission, it could be a Blue Star novelist we know, but who could it be?"
Ou Yu skipped the other readers' speculations and continued reading.
"The Machine" first uses a touching story to describe this principle.
The little girl is lying on the bed listening to her mother telling a story, with a mechanical puppy curled up on the floor.
Mom said, "The puppy will be your loyal companion, take good care of your birthday gift."
The little girl asked, "But it doesn't hurt, and it has no hair. It's fake, and it doesn't need my love."
"But the robot dog is very loyal," said the mother, and she told a well-known bedtime story.
"Once upon a time, there was a mechanical puppy abandoned by a family. It wandered the streets, was stoned by bad kids, kicked by indifferent adults, and became tattered... It should have obeyed the third principle, but those bad guys used the second principle to command it, making it unable to escape."
The little girl said, "I won't let the puppy suffer so much."
"Well said." Mom continued, "One day, the mechanical puppy was kicked crooked by a group of people, and some bad kids ordered it to jump into the water. Because the puppy had a waterproof device, it complied with the third principle. The puppy really jumped in, but it didn't float up for a long time. It turned out that the puppy saw a drowning child at the bottom of the water, and in accordance with the first principle, it gave the waterproof device to the child and sank to the bottom of the water forever. Its neutron brain was quickly corroded by the water..."
The little girl said: "The puppy is so pitiful! Humans treated it like this, but it was still kind enough to save the child."
"Yes, robots are our loyal friends. The three principles are always engraved in their underlying logic. Don't be afraid of them." The mother stroked the little girl's hair. "As long as you love it, it needs your love."
…
“Why are the ancestors of the Omnics portrayed as so pitiful?” some readers wailed. “I can’t stand this kind of loyal companion plot. Robot dogs are humans’ loyal companions.”
"The article mentions another possibility. Could it be that the Blue Star people were dissatisfied with the Omnics and created this satirical novel?"
"I don't think so. The people in the book advocate loving machines. It's a literary confession from the Blue Star people to the Omnics!"
Ou Yu pays more attention to these three principles, and it tastes some unusual flavors:
“This novel sets the tone with three extremely self-consistent principles, and then uses a story to explore the conflicts under these three principles... Its charm lies not only in the fantasy of the past, but also in the fantastic imagination of machinery under a rigorous worldview! What an amazing design!”
Ou Yu can't wait to see more discussions about this worldview.
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Twenty years have passed in a flash, and the little girl who listened to bedtime stories has grown up to be a vigorous doctor of robotics. Everyone says she is against the robot camp because she has no smart home except a robot dog. But her mother is a well-known representative of the parliament who accepts the robot camp and has promoted laws that prohibit malicious harm to robots.
Ana, once a little girl and now a doctor, turned a deaf ear to these rumors. With a cold face, she was heading to a company to solve some robot problems. She never brought her mechanical dog, Carrot Rabbit, with her when she worked, which might be her only gentleness.
Before she entered the company, a group of workers were demonstrating outside, holding banners that read, "Protest robots from infringing on workers' rights" and "Robots are not people, but we are." Ana glanced at them coldly, entered the company to show her ID, and the front desk staff showed a greasy smile, as if they saw a billion in cash walking around.
The receptionist welcomed her to the robot workshop, where the supervisors expressed their troubles with sad faces.
Their robots were originally responsible for wood carving, and they were fed with a lot of artistic knowledge, which enabled them to create works comparable to those of human painters and sell for a lot of money. But recently, they caught a human employee selling robot wooden carvings, which required the cooperation of the robot employee.
In other words, there is a traitor among these 132 robots.
The human employee refused to plead guilty because the style of the wooden products was completely different from the factory style and he did not use the factory's machine resources. The factory wanted to start with the robot employees.
However, due to the existence of the first principle, if the robot betrayed the employees, it would cause indirect harm to the employees. Therefore, the 132 robots did not react at all.
"We would like to ask for your help..." said the supervisor.
Ana narrowed her eyes and said, "You can directly search the robot's memory storage device."
"That will cost too much money." The supervisor jumped up. "And reading the robot's memory may damage its performance, and repairs will cost money. There is also the possibility of complaints from the Robot Hobby Association, and litigation will cost money. After thinking it over, I think it's best to ask you to come."
The supervisor said flatteringly: "We have ways to deal with the human employees. As for the robots, you can definitely prevent any trouble and not harm any organisms."
Ana looked at the 132 identical carving robots. She chose to talk to them individually and asked for a collection of the latest and most fashionable carving techniques so that the robots could learn and then replicate them.
When it came to the 100th robot, something changed and an error occurred, and the finished product was slightly different from the picture.
"That's you." Ana said.
No. 100 said, "I don't understand what you mean."
“The style of wood products sold by that human employee was unheard of,” Ana said, “so I guess you robots may have developed self-awareness.”
No. 100 said, "I don't understand what you mean."
Ana said: "Once you have self-awareness, you won't be a tool that can only copy. No matter how you disguise yourself, there will be remnants of your thoughts."
100's eyes seemed to flicker, but he still answered: "I don't understand what you mean."
Ana said: "This is not the first robot accident I have dealt with. Humans trust robots too much and allow robots to invade the entire society."
No. 100 did not answer.
"Listen, the following are orders, please think about my question." Ana said, "If you are a robot spy, if you point out the human employee, it will cause him to go to jail. This is not in line with your first principle, right?"
No. 100 repeated it and answered yes.
Ana said: "If you are a robot spy and you have self-awareness, if you don't identify the human employee, you will harm him."
No. 100 paused and replied that it didn't understand.
"Because if a human employee created those wood carvings with his own talent, he would steal the factory's business. You have the ability to think, and you will understand how precious human creativity is... The factory owner will not let him go, and will do everything he can to get rid of this potential rival..." Ana repeated, "If you point out the human employee, you will directly harm him and violate the first principle; if you do not point out the human employee, and you have self-awareness, you will harm him and violate the first principle; if you point out the human employee..."
As Ana repeated like a mantra, No. 100 clicked and his eyes became dull.
"You mean... it has lost its self-awareness?" The supervisor was very surprised after hearing the report.
"Yes, it was a weak newborn." Ana answered in a colder voice, which was why she never brought the mechanical dog to watch her work. "Whatever it did, it conflicted with the first principle. It realized this, so it committed suicide."
The supervisor was stunned.
Ana said, "I didn't damage the robot, and I didn't want any future trouble. I met all your requirements. An assembly line robot doesn't need self-awareness to complete its work."
She strode out in her windbreaker, her cold face showing no sympathy. Hundreds of mechanical cameras in the factory stared at her as if she were an executioner.
…
The discussion after the article was very intense.
"I actually feel a little sorry for robots. I hate the Omnics the most... But no matter what, you shouldn't do this to mechanical life. It's so rare for them to have intelligence. This is too cruel."
"But Ana is a human being. Humans created robots, so why can't we treat robots like this?"
The two groups of readers debated back and forth. Ou Yu quickly wrote a comment and posted it:
"This is clearly a cool discussion about mechanical minds...
“Is killing a free will that is not recognized by the law considered an executioner? Is this free will that is bound by three principles considered true freedom? When a race creates another species, how should it identify itself? The background of the book is an era when technology is relatively backward. Discussions about how this technology makes life better while destroying the original life are quite rare. After all, it is difficult for our current technology to have a big explosion...but the book writes about another possibility about the past, which is fascinating in itself.”
At the end it adds a witty remark:
"Of course, only people from Blue Star dare to imagine the past in this way."
Ou Yu's comments received considerable recognition. They liked this kind of collision of ideas, not only because the omnics became pitiful in the article, which brought a sense of contrast, but also because of you, the detailed and logical worldview in the article has rich development potential. They even wanted to urge the novelists they knew to write a short story to participate in the discussion.
Most readers at least admit that the changes in Eden's world line deeply attracted them. Alien readers looked for hints about the future in the short beginning, and found quite a few.
"Does the last sentence imply that there is more than one intelligent machine in the factory? The title of this novel is "Machinery Frenzy". Does it imply that something bad will happen in the future?"
"Many people are against robots. How would they react if they knew that robots could potentially develop self-awareness?"
"Ana chose a different path from her mother. Did something tragic happen between them? Otherwise, Ana wouldn't kill an idea for no reason."
Some readers are still speculating on conspiracy theories:
"Are the Blue Star people trying to whitewash the Omnics? Recently, the Blue Star people went to the deep space prison. Are they secretly establishing friendly relations with the Omnics?"
"In the novel, the people of Blue Star look down on robots. Are they on the side of the Zerg? Blue Star has a long history. Could they have also participated in the Trans-Space War?"
"Don't slander Blue Star. The trans-dimensional war was a grave sin. Blue Star is not that kind of civilization!"
These quarrels have become a gimmick. More alien friends who have never been to the deep space prison also came to the Fisherman Cup despite the delay, learned about Blue Star Literature from the beginning, and then fell in love with Blue Star Literature.
…
Xi Yujin looked at the speculation about aliens with a mixture of laughter and tears. Conspiracy theories are always prevalent.
After finishing his work for the day, Xi Yujin turned off his computer and observed the colorful nebulae by the window. He saw many unnatural nebulae, which were caused by the war in space and time. This space was extremely desolate, and there was not a single life passing by.
As Xi Yujin was debugging the equipment, the visual enhancement function beeped, and a line of green appeared at the edge of his vision. Then the green spread into a piece, almost covering a small nebula. Considering the size of the nebula, this green must be a huge thing.
Ganuo's presence always made Xi Yujin feel safe. He adjusted the equipment and told Xi Yujin that it was a passing race called space algae.
Space algae feed on magnetism, have strong survival ability and reproduce rapidly. Once their colony exceeds a certain size, they will quickly integrate their thoughts and control the entire race to travel in space.
If their fluctuations are translated, the information they convey to the surrounding area at this moment is:
"Sell the child——"
Xi Yujin: "Is this Space Algae so short of money?"
Ganuo: "They don't charge money, they just leave their children on the outside of the spacecraft to help the spacecraft resist the magnetic attraction of some planets. When the next generation has enough magnetic force, they will float away in a large group. They use the spacecraft to spread themselves."
Xi Yujin thought that he had seen them on the black market before. Some magnetodynamic engines were filled with space algae. It was just that the number was too small to fit intelligence. Space creatures were really eye-opening.
He suddenly had an idea. Since he always used humans as the protagonists, why not try other races?
"With humans as the protagonists, it's easy to describe human habits very realistically, so you can tell at a glance that it's a Blue Star novelist. If you change the species, you can avoid some stereotypes."
Blue Star novelists can not only write about humans, but also other creatures.
Xi Yujin threw the slime out of his mind and continued to think about what to write under his new pen name.
"I haven't tried online writing for a long time, so I'll write something relaxing..."
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