Did the world end today?

Chapter 131 Forget about the butterfly plan.
A conscious projection of personality?

Lin Xu was completely dumbfounded after Dong Hui finished speaking.

He suddenly understood what Zhou Yue meant by "firewall".

He originally thought that Jiang Xingye had left a backdoor in the quantum computer to transmit key information to the "error correction faction".

But now it seems.
Good heavens, she actually left behind a seed!
And now, that seed has gradually grown into a towering tree.

But here is the problem.

What does personality projection mean?
Consciousness uploading?

Have people in this era already reached this level?
impossible.

In fact, if we simply talk about neuroscience, it is sometimes more complex and more difficult to make breakthroughs than even basic physics.

Currently, the greatest breakthrough in physics for humankind is the quantum spacetime bubble effect, but we are still far from fully understanding its underlying principles, even though we are only monitoring and verifying it.

The development of cutting-edge technology is not particularly fast, so how could they possibly achieve consciousness uploading in such a short period of time?
Seeing that Dong Hui was still rushing towards the bridge command room, Lin Xu asked:
"What is meant by conscious personality projection? Is it some kind of personalized artificial intelligence?"

"AGI? General Artificial Intelligence?"

"I have no idea!"

Dong Hui answered casually, quickening his pace.

"But most of the time, it really does look like a real person."

"Whether it's dialogue or behavior."

"It will assign us various tasks and issue various orders."

"But it never admits that it is a real person; it has clearly told us that it is just a projection of consciousness."

“We’ve been in contact with Tianhuo since the very beginning of the project. It knows us very well, and at least from what we’ve seen so far, it hasn’t made any mistakes in its choices.”

"Otherwise, our operation would have been exposed long ago."

So this is a human-simulated decision-making machine?

So it's possible that it allocates a small portion of the computing power of a quantum computer to perform other tasks?

Leaving aside the issue of so-called consciousness projection, this is still easy to do.

It's possible to simulate a human being and even pass the Turing test.

But now comes the problem.

If "Zero" was a backdoor left by Jiang Xingye, and Zero personally issued the order to "eliminate the butterfly."

Doesn't that mean that Jiang Xingye from this world wants to kill him?
No, in the last world it was just a divorce, but in this world it's about killing the husband to prove one's path??
impossible.

Jiang Xingye wouldn't do something so stupid.

There must be something wrong.

Moreover, the mistakes are quite egregious.

information!

Under the influence of the killer bees, the world is filled with all kinds of chaotic information. Through the Western Alliance's "peaceful evolution" of the Asian Cooperation Organization, it is constantly infiltrating into the bottom layer and the foundation. As pollen, Jiang Xingye can only carry information with strict boundaries, and to a large extent, he cannot fight against the killer bees.

Perhaps even the underlying logic of the firewall has been interfered with?
Dong Hui continued to walk briskly forward; the bridge command room was not far away.

Lin Xu didn't have time to think much. He walked to the door of the bridge command room. Dong Hui skillfully swiped his ID card to open the door. At this time, only Shen Li and Bai Mo were in the command room.

Seeing the slightly surprised expressions on their faces, Dong Hui spoke directly:
We were all wrong.

"The butterfly contingency plan is risky!"

"Do not activate the butterfly contingency plan!"

"Notify the Yinghuo Palace Space Station to issue an evacuation order!"

"All spacecraft are descending to their orbital altitude, maintaining a safe distance from the space station!"

"Space station, prepare to engage the enemy! Deploy escort ships—no, escort ships aren't necessarily reliable either!"

"Immediately organize the evacuation of the core members of the space station, and use high-speed landing craft to head towards Deimos, using Deimos as a shield to avoid attacks!"

Dong Hui spoke very quickly, while Shen Li frowned deeply.

"Are you crazy, Dong Hui? Do you know what you're doing?"

"Execute the command, and then I'll explain it to you!"

At this moment, Dong Hui displayed an extremely tough stance, but Shen Li remained unmoved upon seeing his expression.

"You don't have the authority to command me!"

Shen Li spoke up:
"The Butterfly Plan is top secret; you have no authority to interfere with its execution!"

"I have it, because he is a butterfly!"

Dong Hui pointed to Lin Xu.

Knowing he couldn't persuade Shen Li, he quickly changed the subject and said:

"A rebellion is brewing within Project Skyfire, and I am a member of that rebellion."

"We thought the rebellion was to destroy the 'abundant' 'theocracy' in the Skyfire Project, but now it seems that's not the case at all!"

"The purpose of the rebellion is to cut off the butterfly's information acquisition channels, and to destroy the space station and the quantum communicator on Zhuque-1!"

"Zero. Zero is the root of the rebellion!"

"In the very second we were talking, it may have already learned of the butterfly's appearance!"

"Because it's tied to Zhiyun!"

After saying this, Shen Li's expression finally changed.

He made a decisive decision.

"Zhiyun, shut down all remote communications!"

"Understood. Remote communication is now closed. Enter full ship silence. Zhiyun is suspending support. Please take control of Zhuque-1."

Zhiyun's voice rang out in the bridge. Unlike the "vivid" tone that Lin Xu had first heard, Zhiyun had now completely degenerated into an ordinary "artificial intelligence".

Perhaps it's because it lost support for remote computing power?
Lin Xu didn't have time to think further. At this moment, Bai Mo had already closed the door to the bridge command room. Then she walked to the emergency storage box and took out weapons for guard duty. On the other side, Dong Hui spoke again.

He told Shen Li everything about the butterfly in detail, and when he finally mentioned the trigger password for the butterfly plan, Shen Li realized that he was not joking.

He truly possessed information that only butterflies could grasp!
Shen Li turned to look at Lin Xu, who slowly nodded.

Seeing that Shen Li's expression was beginning to waver, Dong Hui continued:

"The Butterfly Plan must not be activated under any circumstances. Zero's action plan is tied to the Butterfly Plan."

"It's impossible to use keywords for binding because that's too arbitrary and the stability is too poor."

"Its triggering logic must be tied to the butterfly contingency plan. Our actions will only begin the moment the plan is activated."

"This is largely consistent with the information we had received before. We had been waiting for the so-called right time, but Zero did not tell us what the right time was."

"Now it's clear that the right time is when the butterfly lands!"

"We need to find a way to cut Zero out of the Butterfly Plan. We need to find a way to shut it down completely!"

Complete shutdown?

Hearing this, Lin Xu finally realized how ingenious the design of this "Zero" was.

It's like a landmine that could be triggered at any moment. Once the Butterfly Plan is activated, it will inevitably trigger Zero's countermeasures.

What's even more outrageous is that Zero isn't a living, breathing person, so you can't simply eliminate him or remove his influence by "killing him to silence him."

Essentially, from the moment Zhiyun took over the Butterfly contingency plan, the two were completely intertwined.

Activating the Butterfly Contingency Plan would alert Zero, forcing them to accept the reality of a large-scale blockade of information access channels.

If he didn't want to alert Zero, Lin Xu could only obtain limited information regardless of the level of access he had.

This is a check and balance triggered from the underlying logic.

It is too rigorous, too impeccable.

It's so flawless that I have almost no way to deal with it.

Lin Xu took a deep breath, while Shen Li across from him quickly began to explain:

"First of all, the purpose of our butterfly contingency plan is to quickly convey enough information to the butterfly after it lands."

"Second, the Zero Organization's rebellion aimed to block the spread of information, which means that its designers believed that the act of transmitting information would inevitably bring huge risks."

"But these two are contradictory. Jiang Xingye was the main designer of the Butterfly Plan. It is impossible for her to stand on both the side of the Butterfly Plan and the opposite side of it."

"We are still missing a key player here."

"If you say that Zero is a projection of consciousness, then it means that there must be a real person who is the source of this consciousness."

"And this person"

"He can't be an opposition figure; he can only be a limiter."

"Because Jiang Xingye was the main driving force, and she fully supported Project Butterfly from the very beginning."

"She incorporated the butterfly-themed safety device into the limiter and integrated it with Zhiyun AI."

"Her goal couldn't have been to destroy the butterfly; her goal was to limit certain potential out-of-control events."

"So we need to find the limit switch, but the key is not to find the limit switch itself."

"The key question is, what exactly is the function of the limit switch?"

As soon as Shen Li finished speaking, Lin Xu frowned deeply.

you ask me?
If I knew what the limit switch did, would I be struggling with this?

Isn't the key issue right now simply "I don't know"?

A brief silence fell over everyone.

At that moment, Bai Mo suddenly spoke:
"Never mind all this nonsense."

"The key is to get in touch with Jiang Xingye."

"Once we find her, all the problems will be solved."

"Stop talking nonsense, Lin Xu, come with me!"

"How much time do you have?"

Lin Xu glanced at the time and replied:
"35 minutes."

"enough."

Bai Mo let out a long sigh and continued:
"It only takes 11 minutes to land in the landing module at the Zhurong base."

"We have 24 minutes to find Jiang Xingye."

"Dust storms are dangerous, but they don't mean there's no chance."

"Captain, give the order."

"During this preparation period, we will simultaneously lower the Zhuque-1 orbit."

"To create a longer window of opportunity for us to land on Mars!"

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes were focused on Shen Li.

Shen Li frowned deeply.

"Unauthorized operation of spacecraft, including deorbiting, is a high-privilege operation; if..."

"No ifs."

Bai Mo interrupted again.

Forget about the butterfly contingency plan.

"Without a contingency plan, don't you have your own judgment?"

"I'll pilot the landing craft. Now, execute the order immediately!"

(End of this chapter)