Reluctantly accepting Madness's treatment, the King of Discipline turned his head and glanced at the devastated black forest nearby, and sighed: "Fortunately, the self-recovery function of the black forest is quite sound, but I don't know how long it will take to return to its original state. .”
After saying that, the King of Discipline looked at Gaia: "As for you two, after I go back, I will calculate the debt and contact Rayas directly for task distribution. I will put aside the rest, but this is not the end."
"Well..." Gaia also had a headache. On one side was the King of Discipline, whom she was not familiar with, and on the other side was Madness, a crazy bad woman who was in line with her interests but was crazy. She was quite embarrassed to be caught in the middle, "After all, it's Imeka. Princess, I think Her Royal Highness Morgan will make reasonable compensation, right?"
Your Highness?
Looking at Gaia in surprise, the King of Discipline did not go into details: "I won't say anything else for now. You guys go back with me and prepare to accept the arrears and follow-up mission distribution. Oh, by the way, if Madness in the future If there is any act of destruction, it will be due to your poor supervision, Mr. Gaia. In the end, it will still be blamed on the two of you. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
Gaia could understand the harsh attitude of the King of Discipline, but she still felt a headache.
Madness, however, seemed to have nothing to do with her, so she leaned on Gaia's shoulder and played with the ends of her hair with her long jade fingers.
This made Gaia even more depressed.
As if aware of Gaia's feelings, the Discipline King who was leading the way turned to look at him: "Curious why I am the Discipline King?"
Knowing that the King of Discipline was thanking him for saving her at the critical moment, finding words to eliminate the weird atmosphere and pass the time, Gaia took Madness's hand and nodded.
Glancing at the hands held together by Gaia and Madness, the King of Discipline shook his head imperceptibly and began to speak: "Actually, the names of the Seven Holy Kings are all chosen by themselves. King Arthur's comes from ancient epics. , my name comes from a book left over from the last era."
Then, the King of Discipline began to talk about the contents of the book:
Generally speaking, people can adopt quite clear-cut attitudes towards the two moral poles. For example, if faced with a butcher who killed 100,000 people and a saint who saved 100,000 people, people would definitely think that the former should be punished and the latter should be rewarded.
But this moral judgment will gradually blur in the middle ground. What about the person who killed a villain and saved another? What about the man who killed two crayfish and saved two cockroaches? What about the person who kills himself and revives a suffering patient by euthanasia? In these questions, people cannot get answers and can only rely on legal regulations or the judgment of more people.
Relying on the Themis judgment system may be a way.
(In ancient Greek mythology, the goddess who presides over justice and order is Themis. It is said that the scales in her hand that control good and evil became the future Libra)
This method originated from the ancient tradition of mankind in the last era. At that time, people lined up and dropped pottery pieces to determine whether a person was guilty or not. Themis's judgment basis is similar to this, except that it relies on as many as three billion humanoid mechanical intelligences.
When faced with a moral dilemma, such as whether to kill one or five people on a trolley, just hand it over to Themis, and it will hand the issue over to every subsystem within the system for discussion. In the end, a ratio will come out. For example, its solution to the trolley problem is that since the subsystem mostly supports saving five people, the innocent guy should be sacrificed.
Themis, like a judge who judges cases, never makes mistakes on clear issues, and can uphold justice in some difficult problems that are difficult for humans to distinguish. But it still exposed a lot of operational problems.
For example, the sampling of subsystems as the main body of operations is based on an aristocratic class. Therefore, when the system was running in civilian families, when faced with the family inheritance issues of local ethnic minorities, these subsystems adhered to the basic inheritance concept to make judgments - but this caused serious dissatisfaction among the local people. Although Themis shields the influence of classism as much as possible, it still causes the system to adopt very extreme judgments in some insulting cases.
For another example, the system just arbitrarily sets the male-to-female ratio of the subsystem to one to one, without taking into account the actual population ratio. This has led to some very bizarre judgments, such as in women's prisons, where female guards wanted to reduce the number of men's toilets, but were ruled illegal.
Income is also not taken into account. The two programmers who developed Themis at the time obviously did not consider that there were still a large number of low-income groups in the world, resulting in some injustices to the poor. For example, they think that "rich people can donate money to the school in exchange for admission" is not a bad thing, because the donation can make the school develop better-but they ignore the terrible consequences that may result.
In the Themis 2.0 system, developers learned lessons, sampled a group from the global population, used their characteristics to train the subsystem, and then expanded the number to 6 billion to specifically judge the nature of an event. In other words, "is it ethical?"
The sample population numbered tens of thousands. Most of the elements of human moral judgment are summarized by these people: gender, class, belief... The developers believe that this system can make binary judgments for all moral dilemmas.
This year has been designated as the first year of the new cybernetic era. Its birth is a historical necessity: with the improvement of the global economy and population quality, people are increasingly calling for a powerful machine that can arbitrate all terminals. The material entity of this machine is the rising world government, and its internal structure is a series of moral judgment systems such as Themis.
From a couple's quarrel to a dispute between superpowers, due to people's extreme aversion to force after thermonuclear war, everyone tends to use civilized methods to resolve it. And if a trial by judge is used, who will judge the judge? If we use jury discussions, how can we take into account the millions of living beings outside the courtroom?
But we can’t really leave everything to everyone’s judgment. You can't ask billions of people to vote in a two-choice vote just because you have a dispute with a plumber.
A system must exist to judge on behalf of humans, and it must be as close as possible to the human community itself.
If all mankind is compared to a giant, then Themis 2.0 is like a dwarf. Although much smaller, it still has complete facial features and sound limbs.
Themis 2.0 handles a lot of difficult issues very well. For example, the answer to "Which one should be saved, my wife or my mother, if they fall into the water?" is that the mother should be saved. After all, not everyone has a wife, but basically everyone has a mother.
Another example is, "Should it be necessary to sacrifice 20,000 people to build a space elevator?" People's answers overwhelmingly said no. Because no one has ever seen a space elevator, but everyone knows that the 20,000 people who died may be themselves.
It was at this time that Themis 2.0 exposed its still existing problem: timeliness. Nearly a hundred years have passed since the establishment of the World Government and the launch of the system. In the past hundred years, people have accumulated all the technology to build a space elevator, but they still cannot pass systematic moral judgment because of possible sacrifices.
There are many similar questions. The legality of human cloning born under cloning technology needs to be solved urgently. The new situation of multi-sex marriage and species hybridization awaits solutions. In the era when liberalism prevailed, did people have the freedom to oppose freedom? Under the equal rights framework for everyone, the question of reproduction is How should things be coordinated? These problems are far beyond what some old systems from many years ago can solve.
Of course, conservatives will think that if we are contrary to morality, it just proves that we are on the wrong track. But activists believe that a system that would only answer "yes" when faced with the question "whether to support large-scale mating between bisexual centaurs and quadruped robots implanted with replica human consciousnesses" is already far behind the times. .
You ask why those systems in Themis 2.0 only choose "yes"? Because they can't understand the question, they can only be fooled by the first one.
The first step into the future is difficult but requires boldness. The World Government made the only "illegal" decision in hundreds of years: to upgrade Themis 2.0. Ironically, those subsystems all seemed to know their fate after Themis was dismantled, so they all opposed the upgrade. However, the World Government broke all difficulties and conducted a vote covering all "human beings" at the same time as the census. Everyone agreed.
Why agree? Because in fact, most people don’t understand the use of this system and are confused by the first option.
At the commemorative ceremony for the birth of Themis 3.0, the chief administrator of the world government, also called the Grand Interactor, announced the importance of the new system to human development.
"The latest version of Themis system connects everyone's brain-computer interface, data connection server or biomass brain tissue. From now on, we will sample the consciousness of all human beings once a day, and then Massive amounts of data are mapped into the Themis system. In other words, facing all problems, we will unite everyone and give the most pertinent and ethical answers. The empathy of all mankind will be projected on this together In this small device, unparalleled moral brilliance blooms.”
To commemorate this brilliance, the square where the ceremony took place was named "Moral High Ground." From now on, if anyone really stands on the moral high ground and approaches the Themis system, then he may really be qualified to morally kidnap you.
The revised Themis 3.0 system realizes an almost impossible moral trial method, that is, letting all mankind stand in front of you to face your little entanglements. 49.7% of humans support you calling yourself sick and skipping class in the afternoon, 36.2% of humans support you kissing the robot girl you love, and 89.7% of humans support you sacrificing yourself to save humanity - although this is a joke.
So when your teacher gives you a stern look and says that 63.2% of people think failure to turn in homework should be punished, she probably means it.
Should non-moral things be included in the moral framework? 26.2% of people said yes. If it should be included, would a petty thief be qualified to try a murderer? If it should not be included, how should we view the evolution of human morality over the years? Killing is a heinous act, but what if you kill zombies? And what if you are the zombie and you think you are killing zombies, but you are actually killing people?
When the objective definition of morality is appealed to empathy and bound to the "consensus of all mankind", can we escape from the moral framework if we take measures against this consensus? This is not empty talk, people are facing this problem right away.
The largest computer hacker, computer saboteur, murderer, and initiator of moral dilemmas in human history was recently arrested by a law enforcement robot. He has always had doubts about using systems to control human behavior, even if this system was the same as humans just a day ago. He deliberately wanted to prove one thing: people are the masters of morality, not the puppets of morality.
The weights reverse infiltrated the Themis system. He asked the system, "Is it sinful to kill the vast majority of people in the world?" 98.6% of people thought it was guilty. This has reached the limit of death penalty, because the world government has established thresholds to prevent the system from making errors of judgment in the vague middle ground. A conviction can only be imposed when the support ratio exceeds 68.2%, and the death penalty can be used only when the support ratio exceeds 95.5%. The weights randomly selected 97% of the world's population from those who did not vote not guilty. As long as these people are killed, the proportion of those who think he is innocent will greatly expand, and he can be acquitted.
People who have abandoned violence have been enjoying themselves in the Garden of Eden in the new era for so long that they have lost their basic sense of caution and cannot even identify fraudulent information. "Themis System Update Reminder", most people clicked on it without thinking. Subsequently, a Trojan horse was implanted into his brain-computer interface or recent electronic device. When everything was ready, the weight activated the switch, and countless brain-computer interfaces malfunctioned and began to discharge abnormally, wiping out the vast majority of humans on the planet overnight.
The irony is that even though so many people died, human society still did not collapse thanks to the complete robot assistance system. The remaining people gathered on the moral high ground and decided to impose the death penalty on weights - but the irony is that they can stand here mostly because they think this behavior is innocent. The weight did not resist, but looked at the world that he had messed up with a smile like a winner.
"You should judge me by the system." He smiled. "Unfortunately, the system has been updated. After my arrangement, only those who support my innocence can survive. So I am still innocent."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Themis system gave the answer, not guilty.
The most evil man who single-handedly killed far more people than any other murderer in history has ever killed is not guilty.
"Humans should be the masters of machines, regulations, or morals," he said. "Any attempt to control people themselves with something other than people will sooner or later lead to contradictions."
He produced evidence. Weights mathematically prove that once there are enough problems faced, there will always be a situation that can make 99.9% of people think that in this case, it is not evil to exterminate all human beings. He pointed to the giant law enforcement robots under construction in the distance and said: "They can imagine ways to destroy us ethically without me."
"Hahaha..." He walked down the moral high ground with a smile. He seemed to be in high spirits, but his eyes were lost. "I killed almost all human beings, but I was not guilty just because I killed dissidents, but you are helpless against obvious crimes because of a ridiculous machine."
At this time, a law enforcer finally couldn't bear it anymore, took out a dagger and stabbed him in the chest. Blood splattered everywhere. This act would be defined by the system as intentional homicide, but it seemed particularly just at this moment.
However, the weight cheered, embraced, and kissed the patriot who killed him.
In this faint dawn, he died without regrets.
(Many chapters have been reported and blocked, but I don’t want to change them. This is my last stubbornness.
However, many people have invested. For these brothers, I decided to slowly release the rest to ensure that the brothers can receive stable income. If one day the management rights of the work are no longer available, it can be distributed regularly.
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