Academician Ding also turned around when he heard their conversation.

He sighed softly: "Do you think it's a bit ridiculous and powerless? These days, we have been discussing how to repair the technical hidden dangers left by our predecessors. But there are even greater hidden dangers around us, and it is a social and cultural hidden danger."

"The hidden dangers like this are hidden in our civilization. I don't know how many of them are. Racial conflicts, ideological conflicts, and any small problem may become big problems. Even if the decision-making level knows it, they don't know how to solve it..."

"Do you know how much we have paid to develop space? We can't stop developing because of some hidden dangers."

It is hard to predict what will happen in the next tens of thousands of years.

But what can we do? Without these people, how long will the development of Europa be extended?

Many people on Earth may never know that some are silently giving for their wonderful days.

Zhang Yuan sighed deeply and nodded.

The limitations of human beings are only for their own life. From the perspective of informatics, most political policies are arranged according to "greedy algorithms", that is, the local optimal solution in the current state.

Future interests must give way to immediate interests.

To plan for thousands of years or tens of thousands of years is really beyond the limit of human wisdom.

He would not be sentimental because of this. Even if he was allowed to be a decision maker, he would have no choice but to make such a choice.

Since it exists, it must be reasonable.

The more complex and more developed the civilization, the smaller the individual's power will appear. Even if he is the leader of the coalition government, what can he do? For today's society, various forces are constrained by each other, and there are many things that cannot be changed by one person.

Having talked about this, Senior Brother Zhao suddenly said: "As for future development, in the New Civilization School, there is a profound and complex discipline that is still dreaming so far, called New Civilization History. I wonder if you have ever heard of it."

"New Civilization History? Is it a discipline of history?" This was not the first time Zhang Yuan heard of this term, but he didn't know much, and his ears stood up curiously.

Zhao Qingfeng smiled, "This subject is very complicated. If you explain it in one sentence, you want to find the global optimal solution to civilization, rather than a simple greedy algorithm that takes one step at a time."

"Let me give an example. The development of civilization is actually very similar to the process of personal growth."

In ancient times, due to the poor living environment, a teenager would be pulled to work as long as he had a little strength. Although it met the current survival needs, it also killed future interests. This cultivation method was called the "local optimal solution strategy", which means that only considers the present and does not consider the future.

In the modern environment, a teenager will receive compulsory education. Education does not seem to have current benefits, but it is just pure effort. However, the knowledge learned will only exert greater social value after a person grows up and becomes an adult.

A person's life span is only a short hundred years, and there are a large number of samples. It is not difficult to plan and find a relatively good solution in the sense of life.

But what about a civilization?

Civilization is a collective of all populations, and it has a very high complexity. Its lifespan is thousands of years and thousands of years, completely exceeding the lifespan of a single human. How to coordinate the planning?

But this is what New Civilization History wants to study.

"In the early stages of the development of civilization, there was a sparse population and backward technology, and there was a risk of premature death at any time. It was equivalent to the infancy of humans."

"You know baby, do you? The worldview and values ​​are not mature yet. Therefore, a civilization is the most malleable in its early stages of development."

"What about us... inherited a great inheritance." Zhang Yuan said with a smile, "Is it the kind of rich second-generation baby?"

"You are right." Senior Brother Zhao's expression became serious: "Although we have a deeper background, which is equivalent to being a rich second generation, it does not mean that we can squander randomly."

"What do you think is the most important thing for a civilization?"

"Of course it's technology!" Zhang Yuan replied immediately.

Senior Brother Zhao smiled and made an expression like "I knew you would say that."

Immediately afterwards, he shook his head: "Technology is equivalent to the external skill of civilization. Do you know the external skill? As long as you are willing to spend your energy, you can achieve it quickly."

Zhang Yuan frowned and said, "Quick-achieving? The development of technology is not that easy..."

"The quick success here refers to small success. If some simple technologies are not limited to patents, it should not be difficult for other countries to imitate them, right?"

"Okay..." Zhang Yuan temporarily accepted this statement.

"For a civilization, what is more important is internal strength, including the humanistic environment, political system, people's ideology, etc. These things need to be cultivated slowly, and it is basically impossible to achieve it quickly."

"These internal strengths actually determine the upper limit of the development of science and technology, which is the key research content of the history of new civilizations."

Zhang Yuan has always been less interested in politics, but he has also known a little bit because of various cultural courses in college.

For example, in South America and in some African countries, the ideology of the people tends to enjoy themselves and they are satisfied when they are full. Under this relatively lazy ideology, it is naturally difficult for the entire country to develop and can only be used as the place of raw materials.

In the East Asian cultural circle, the people have a strong sense of crisis and are willing to fight for a better tomorrow, or even for the happiness of the next generation, they can endure some hardships themselves.

Therefore, in this humanistic environment, it is historically inevitable that these countries will be at the forefront of the world.

So, why do there be completely different humanistic environments?

"The new civilization history you mentioned should be biased towards the liberal arts, right?"

"No! You're wrong, its ultimate essence is mathematics!"

"Ah?!" Zhang Yuan stared in surprise, a little confused.

Senior Brother Zhao smiled, "... According to the view of the new civilization history, the inherent history of the entire civilization is divided into a large number of key nodes, each node contains a major historical accident that occurred at that time. The history of the previous node will have a certain impact on the next node and the entire network."

“You can think of it as a neural network.”

This idea is very intuitive and Zhang Yuan can easily understand it.

"When there were fewer key nodes in the early stages of civilization, the final output of the network was easily changed, that is, a single great man could have a huge impact on it."
Chapter completed!