The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 494 Supplementing the Law of the Dark Forest
The cigarette in Jiang Yu's hand went out after only one puff, and he took out another cigarette and lit it.

In recent years, Jiang Yu seldom smoked in public, but today he was so excited, he felt that his brain seemed to break through an invisible shackle, allowing him to see many far-reaching things, and he had to use nicotine to anesthetize him Own.

There was a long silence in the conference room. Everyone was pondering what Jiang Yu said just now, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt reasonable. Otherwise, only the current law of the dark forest could not fully explain why the universe is so deserted.

The Milky Way is very large, with a diameter of about [-] light-years, but if there are [-] million civilizations in this range, many civilizations would have already knocked out the brains of dogs under the premise of the dark forest.

Especially with the light speed spacecraft, it is common for the battlefield of two advanced civilizations to span thousands of light years.

The wars of dozens of advanced civilizations are enough to turn the galaxy upside down.

Honestly hiding?

Impossible, if the density of civilization is too high, there will be nowhere to hide.

At that time, the threat from the dark forest will be reflected on the bright side, which is a desperate battle between civilizations.

However, according to human beings' current observation of the universe, the universe is very empty. If a civilization wants to develop, there are plenty of places to hide.

At least within a few tens of light-years nearby, except for the Silicon Stars and the Trisolarans who ran off to nowhere, humans have not discovered the fourth kind of intelligent life.

In outer space, except for the occasional dark forest attack, no large-scale space battle was observed.

These evidences all show that this universe is very deserted.

"I thought of a question an old friend asked me." Jiang Yu smoked half a cigarette and said again: "He asked me: what should we do if our race stops making progress?
"Human greed will not stop, but when material life stops and can no longer satisfy human greed, what should we do?
"What should I do?
"The first time I heard this question, I thought I already knew the answer.

"The second time I thought about this question, I realized that I didn't seem to know the answer!

"Now, I understand the inherent meaning of this question."

Jiang Yu extinguished the cigarette again: "Everyone, my friend at that time had vaguely realized that human beings are in crisis from within.

"Our technology is getting more complex, our society is getting more complex.

"In case one day our technology reaches the highest level, our society becomes better than ever.

"Does it mean that our development has stopped? Technological benefits will gradually be consumed, and social benefits will become less and less satisfying to everyone's appetite. In the end, we may usher in a collapse."

Ricks smiled bitterly: "I don't know how to discuss it with you, because I find that I don't seem to be able to connect with your thinking."

Jiang Yu waved his hand: "Then listen to me first.

"I think this should be one of the dark forest additions we've been looking for: as civilizations expand, the more complex they become, the greater the threat from within!"

He paused and said: "I tried to apply this principle to other civilizations, such as the 'Black Civilization', they should be a model of ignoring the internal threats from civilization.

"Judging from their achievements, the civilization that attacked them could not completely wipe them out, but they eventually perished.

"According to our information and conjectures, a large part of their demise came from within civilization.

"First of all, they were too careless, and after learning the clues of Venus, they put all their bets on Venus.

"After coming to the earth, they behaved like a bunch of fools, it's hard to imagine that they could starve to death!
"I think it's not that their intelligence is not enough, but that they lived too comfortably before, and when civilization encounters a fatal blow, they suddenly don't know how to deal with it.

"So under blows both internally and externally, the 'black civilization' perished.

"I remember the last black guy saying they knew too late.

"Maybe when they realize the danger from within civilization, they have no way to change their status quo."

The experts have just digested Jiang Yu's previous thoughts, and now they are in a new place of contemplation.

Jiang Yu took a few sips of drinks and waited for them, then continued: "I will try to apply this law to Venus, he must know the whole picture of the law of the dark forest.

"Have you ever thought about why Jin Xing said she has only one consciousness?
"There are only two possibilities. The first is that this ethnic group is born with a common consciousness, and the second is that they simply merged the consciousness of the entire ethnic group in order to avoid threats from within!"

Jiang Yu let out a long breath: "There is also human beings themselves, this is the civilization we are most familiar with, and we have never stopped since the birth of civilization.

"It can be said that war has always been accompanied by the development of human beings.

"We originally had the ability to destroy ourselves because we wanted to deter our compatriots!

"After the founding of the solar system country, there are conflicts with other people or political systems.

"Now mankind has become one country, but internal conflicts have never stopped.

"The military has conflicts with the ruling government, and the former ruling government has conflicts with the current ruling government.

"There are more contradictions among the people, and there are conflicts between the first batch of immigrants and the second batch of immigrants.

"The earliest residents of the solar system had conflicts with the two groups of immigrants after the Battle of Heavenly King and after the Second Battle.

"One of the most important tasks of the ruling government is to actively adjust the conflicts of all parties in the country, so the solar system countries are still relatively healthy.

"Once the functions of the ruling government begin to weaken, it is very likely that the solar system country will fall apart in a very short period of time!"

Jiang Yu wrinkled and didn't conclude: "Maybe it's the right sentence: we are going to perish! What's more sad is that we can't stop."

Ricks was taken aback: "Which celebrity is this saying?"

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "It's a sentence I just thought of."

Ricks smiled with several experts, and the atmosphere in the venue was relatively relaxed.

An expert asked Jiang Yu: "Although this momentum is irreversible, is there no solution?"

"Yes," Jiang Yu said, "I have been on the road, or I will always ask myself to climb higher mountains."

The experts were silent again, because this method is too idealistic, the road will always come to an end, and the mountain will always climb to the highest peak.

"The specific plan, I will leave it to the Strategy Department and the executive government to think about it." Jiang Yu said again: "Please help me think about it first, whether the rule I proposed is general enough!"

A famous expert said: "I think that at present, such a phenomenon does exist in the universe.

"We can temporarily consider this law to be correct, and if we observe situations that do not conform to the law, it is not too late for us to make corrections."

Jiang Yu nodded: "Then the first law of the dark forest about the interior of civilization was born!"

(End of this chapter)