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Chapter 5 Humans Invent Language to Satisfy Their Deepest Need to Complain

The popularity of Mark's hospitalization has not yet subsided on social networks, and the FB incident has once again made the headlines of reports.

Eduardo was sitting on the sofa by the window, the sun was covering half of the floor of the ward, Ilya directed the public relations team to prepare for the discharge, and Mark watched the relevant reports with a solemn expression.

Except for Ilya, all the people in the public relations team are girls, and they are all very young girls. Edward couldn't see the girls doing heavy work in front of him, so he waved them to go back to the villa first. He and Mark were left alone.

Eduardo was a little nervous when he was discharged from the hospital.Mark was wearing a T-shirt and jeans and his pile of sophisticated programming gear, and Eduardo was wearing a casual suit and sunglasses.

At the elevator door, the two of them looked at each other, looking at each other.

Eduardo: "Aren't you going to drive?"

mark:···

Mark: "I'm a patient."

Mark: "Aren't you going to drive?"

Eduardo:  …

Eduardo: "Singapore's lane is on the left, which is the opposite of the United States. I'm not used to it."

The two of them leaned together in front of the elevator door, stood blankly for a while, and finally realized the painful reality that no one drove after the PR department left.

Mark: "Find a driver on the software?"

Eduardo: "I remember that your address was not exposed?"

Mark: "Do the subway?"

Eduardo: "—unless I die."

Mark: "Rock scissors Spock lizard?"

Eduardo: "—we're just the two of us, no need for a rock-scissors Spock lizard."

Mark: "What about rock-paper-scissors?"

Eduardo: "—Yes."

Mark: "I'm a rock."

Eduardo ignored him, pressed the elevator and went to the basement.

Before Mark could react, he grabbed the elevator door and asked him what was wrong.

Eduardo, already tortured by his natural ferocity, didn't want to say the words: "I'm the scissors."

mark:···

Mark: "Then you slow down."

Eduardo:  …

Mark: "But doesn't Singapore drive on the left? Are you not used to it?"

Eduardo: "I thought about it, I haven't driven a car in Singapore anyway, so it doesn't matter."

The basement and entrance of the hospital were very clean, and there were not as many people as Eduardo imagined blocking them to interview or film them, so the two of them went out smoothly.

Before getting into the car, Mark reflexively wanted to run to the back row to do it, but was reminded by Eduardo's murderous eyes.Mark put the backpack on his back in the back row and sat in the co-pilot.

Eduardo: "Mr. Zuckerberg, can you learn a little bit about respecting people?"

Mark: "Mr. Savarin, can you pay less attention to these formalities."

Eduardo: "Just let me drive, and run to the back row."

Mark: "—From the perspective of probability, we are twice as likely to be in a car accident as before."

Eduardo: "Believe it or not, I made the probability 100%."

Mark: “—these business etiquettes are built on exploitation and oppression, and in essence we can’t breed that kind of inequality.”

Eduardo:  …

Eduardo was about to collapse and said, "Which of the two of us has a bigger company?!!

Mark: "The essence of FB is to bring everyone a better life."

Eduardo: "sincewhen?!!" (Since when?)

Mark: "sinceforever." (from the very beginning)

Eduardo:  …

Mark: "No way, this is how the world works, be a little more mature, Eduardo."

Eduardo: "Don't talk to me in such an educating tone! I'm two years older than you."

Mark wanted to say something, looked at Eduardo, but shut his mouth wisely.

The car drove slowly for a while, no one spoke in the car, and the atmosphere was relaxed. Eduardo turned on the car player, and the music sounded passionate and clear.

Eduardo: "Wagner's opera Valkyrie?"

Mark: "...I don't know, I bought this CD because it's a Star Wars remix."

Eduardo:  …

The car got on the boulevard, but it was heading in the opposite direction. Eduardo re-adjusted the navigation and set it to the airport.

Mark: "What are we going to do at the airport?"

Eduardo: "Go pick up my assistant, she just came from Singapore."

Mark nodded to show that he understood, then raised his wrist to look at his watch, and reflexively looked at the equipment bag in the back row.

Eduardo drove the car for a while, then pulled over on the side of the road, and said to Mark: "You go to work in the back row, it will take a long time to go to the airport and go home."

Mark went to the back row to get the computer, but instead of staying in the back row, he returned to the front row with his laptop in his arms.

The atmosphere in the car returned to tranquility. Eduardo drove for a while, thinking about the business in Singapore, and called out the FB and other financial data of the same industry that he had analyzed in the hospital as a reference. After a while, he opened his mouth and said to Mark: "How do you say 'FB tree is so popular, this matter is not just as simple as PR'?"

Mark was working and was taken aback by Eduardo's sudden opening.

"?"

"At the FB office, I asked you how serious it was and you said 'it's not just PR'."

Mark hesitated for a while, closed the computer, and said, "I want to hear your opinion."

"I accepted your invitation and came back to New York. From the day I arrived, we made headlines several times in less than a month and completely disrupted our PR case. This time you are sick, and the first aid was sent to FB Internally, how did the media know that you were the one who was sick, and how did you rush to the hospital so quickly?"

"The media has its own channels. If you look at FB, it's not difficult to know these things."

"On the first day you were hospitalized, I saw that the trend on the news was that you were seriously ill and could not take the helm of FB. That day, FB's stock fluctuated like a radar chart."

"It's normal for the media to manipulate the audiovisual, and it's normal for minority shareholders to buy and sell without news."

"But judging from the analysis of the financial data of the same industry in the past six months and the financial data of FB in the past five years, this is a premeditated ambush."

"?"

"For all these things, it seems that FB has had the worst luck, but in fact there is capital behind it."

"···"

"The public opinion these days, as well as FB and the problems you are facing, and our completely disrupted public relations case now all show that the other party is a huge capital group, and can manipulate it very skillfully."

"How did you know this?"

"I haven't been in touch with the capital circle in New York for a long time, but their methods have not changed in 50 years. The only thing I can trust now is the financial report information."

"These are all analyzed from the financial report?"

"The time is too short now, and we can only analyze these things. If you want to get more in-depth things, it will take some time."

"Can there be so many things in the financial report?"

Mark's expression was a bit puzzled and disgusted. Edward was almost amused by his expression, and said, "Yes, the financial report contains the entire universe, but it needs to be analyzed."

Mark nodded, indicating that he understood.

"What happened to FB's alleged theft of user information?"

"Basically the same as what was written on the news."

"What's written on the news?"

"—FB is the largest social software in the world. Through FB, everyone in the world can be located. FB's database can be used to analyze software to get a lot of things, including everyone's personal privacy. FB guards against itself and steals from the database. Get user information from."

"So did you do that?"

"Very complicated."

"You have to tell me this."

"Do you know 'Schrödinger's Law'?"

"Is the cat dead or alive?"

"Yes, because FB has the world's largest database of human behavior, so in theory, through the integration of these data, human nature can be defined to the greatest extent. I wrote a program, analyzed the database, and used it as a basis , developed the first generation of AI."

"You stole user data."

"It's in the middle ground between misappropriation and non-appropriation. The program is closed, just like a dark room without lights. I put the data stream in this room, let the program do the processing, and then come to a conclusion. No one knows. What the original data looked like."

"So you're saying it's Schrödinger's law because the data doesn't leave FB's database and nobody sees it, but you do draw conclusions based on that database."

"Correct."

"But have you ever thought that this is still data theft, and you started FB to bring about change and a better life."

"Thought—but Wardo, we're in the new wave, it's a whole new territory, and you can't use traditional morals to measure these things."

"So you can't respond to these news head-on, because you can't answer this question either."

"I know you can understand, as you did back then, that I'm in a 'yes or no' zone."

As he said that, Mark glanced at Eduardo, at the profile of him driving, at his still face and the wantonly receding buildings in the background, and said nothing more.

"What's the name of the AI?"

"Not yet decided, but I'll call her Leia."

"Princess Leia?" (star wars character)

"Yes, Star Wars: A New Hope."

Eduardo looked at the traffic in front of him, it was a bend, and the traffic was like a rainbow flowing out from the fork.He is not very familiar with the artistic perception of Star Wars. The last time he saw this film was nearly ten years ago, but he remembered that this film was not favored at all during the preparation period. The film was on the verge of bankruptcy.In the end, this film won a big victory, bringing the "Star Wars" series back to people's attention, and it also brought Fox back to life and made new glories.

In the film, with the help of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker destroys the Death Star, breaks the myth that the empire is invincible, and brings the dawn of victory and new hope to the rebels in the universe.

It was hard for Eduardo not to think about what the name meant to Mark and FB.

"What does AI look like? What do you envision?"

Mark opened the notebook, smiled lightly at Eduardo, and said without emotion: "It's very geek, it's not easy to explain, you won't like it."

"--What do you think."

"Well, there are some views on people and the universe, as well as the definition of morality, in addition to the flat and multidimensional universes."

After Mark finished speaking, he stopped talking, opened his notebook, and started working again.

The car was very quiet, and Eduardo was also silently listening to the soundtrack of Star Wars. He was very familiar with many movements, but he couldn't remember when he actually heard them.

"Mark, is there anything else you're hiding from me?"

"—"

"Now the FB situation is complicated, I need to know more things to analyze."

"—"

"Once the capital side gathers, they won't leave without seeing blood, but they need enough benefits to move out."

"—"

"So, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

When Eduardo said this, there was a subtle pause after the 'so', as if asking this sentence revealed something hidden in him again.

And Mark didn't lift his head, just stared at the notebook and said, "No."

Edward nodded, turned the steering wheel, changed lanes, and the airport was already in front of him.

The assistant who came this time is the one who has been with Eduardo for the longest time. He has been working with him since he first arrived in Singapore to set up the company. Her name is Riley. She is a very cute girl. Edward is far away in the United States. These days, she also handles official affairs in Singapore and daily life in the United States.This time, because of the public relations case, Ilya and the public relations team were very busy, and Eduardo took over the assistant from Singapore.

When Mark saw Riley, he was a little surprised, because he thought that Eduardo's assistant, even if he dressed casually, at least conformed to the aesthetics of Eduardo's capitalists in the mid-50s, (he spent more than half of his time in the United States. It’s the meticulous business style hidden in the room every day) but his assistant is silver-haired, wearing a white T-shirt and ripped jeans, and looks full of rebellious hip-hop style.

When Riley saw Mark, she was also a little surprised. One reason was that she didn’t expect Mark to be there. Another reason was that there were only two big publicists in the car who had contacted her before. The other reason was that she was most shocked. Eduardo actually drove by himself.

Riley greeted the two of them and put the luggage in the trunk of the car.Mark watched, somewhat surprised that Riley recognized him with a cursory glance out the window.

Riley let go of her luggage and knocked on Eduardo's window outside the car, wanting to switch cars with him, but Eduardo declined.Then they left the airport.

Eduardo asked Riley some things about the Singapore company, and Riley answered them all.Mark was listening, and felt a little surprised, because only from Riley's voice and tone, she sounded like a very calm and low-key girl, which was not at all different from her attire.

Riley took out the tablet and continued her work, and Mark continued his work. No one spoke in the car, and Eduardo was driving, only the sound of the wind outside the window could be heard.

Eduardo recalled what happened in the FB office before. Every day at noon, he and Mark ate with everyone in the cafeteria.And on FB, under the strong promotion of the public relations case, only a few people paid attention to the matter between him and Mark. They expressed concern, and even Mark's own secretary group just knew that he did not come to the shareholders' meeting every year.

They met him and Mark, they would congratulate them for being together, they didn't know what happened to them, time was passing very fast with Mark.

He wandered around FB's office building, wanting to see what FB has experienced over the years and what it has grown into.

But there is no trace of him on FB, he has also seen her birth, her growth, and he can't sleep at night thinking about her future.

Then he remembered that in his own company, Riley and other assistants and brain trusters around him, they all knew Mark and his eccentricities related to Mark, they all kept secret about Mark, the annual general meeting and the rainy season in Singapore When they were young, they all behaved with their tails between their legs.

Edward thought, this is really boring.

He realized that their past was not a very important thing, he had to let it go and move on.

He used to think less of himself, but he was still not as important as he thought.

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