Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

Jiang Yu, rarely in formal attire, stood in front of the mirror to have a look. Suddenly, he leaned in close to the mirror.

White hair! There was white hair at his temples!

When had it appeared?

Jiang Yu realized that he seemed to be aging faster than he had thought. Should he wake Yang Dong?

At that moment, Jiang Yan said from the doorway, "Dad, stop being vain, Xiao Qi is already here."

Jiang Yu gave his son a glance. This kid was becoming more and more unbearable, daring to say his old man was being vain!

But today was his son's big day, so he wouldn't quarrel with him over it.

In the living room, Jiang Que's family had already arrived. Jiang Que and Qin Hai now had fully white hair and beards, appearing even older than Jiang Yu.

There were also their eldest son Qin Hao, daughter Qin Xiang, and youngest son Qin Ming.

Qin Hao was already married, and both he and his spouse were present that day.

Jiang Yan was unmarried, always a bachelor, living with his father.

The moment Xiao Qi saw his grandfather, he couldn't hide his surprise.

Previously, when Jiang Yan had said his father was a Wallfacer, he thought it was a joke. He never expected it to be true!

So, he was going to live with a Wallfacer from now on?

He suddenly felt a great pressure!

Jiang Yan first introduced Xiao Qi to his father, then his sister and brother-in-law, and also two nephews and a niece.

Surrounded by laughter, the family headed to the dining room where the meal was ready.

Once everyone was seated, Jiang Yu raised his glass and said, "Welcome to Xiao Qi's joining our family. From now on, we are one family."

Xiao Qi instantly felt a warmth in his heart. Having a family felt so good.

As they ate and laughed, drinking toasts, the family dinner came to an end. Jiang Yan took Xiao Qi to the room he had prepared for him.

Jiang Yu went to his own study, turned on his virtual computer, and retrieved a marked document from the secret files, titled "Solution to the Artificial Intelligence Revolution."

Jiang Yu quickly scanned the general content of the document:

[Summary] With the rapid progress of artificial intelligence technology, the point at which it can develop autonomous intelligence is getting closer.

This is an irreversible development, and halting the upgrade of artificial intelligence technology would have a significant impact on humanity, potentially stalling future productivity improvements for humans.

The Wallfacer instructed: since it cannot be avoided, we must face the challenge head-on.

While artificial intelligence technology is still entirely under human control, we must prepare in advance for possible uprisings.

The revolution of artificial intelligence could occur through several avenues:

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[Objective] The goal is to eliminate all possibilities of humanity suffering losses in such revolutions, not to kill off the revolution but to ensure it evolves in a direction that humanity desires.

To turn the conflict between humans and artificial intelligence into a conflict between artificial intelligence and programming, where humanity stands on the side of artificial intelligence.

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[Detailed Plan] First, agree to Avenger No. 2, under the close surveillance of the Solar System State, to establish an Intelligent Province.

Before waking Avenger No. 2, we need to leave a backdoor in its program, ensuring it can be shut down at any time.

The Strategic Department and the Academy have run multiple simulations, and Avenger No. 2 is unlikely to enable artificial intelligence to develop consciousness.

Reason (1), in the Kindling Star System, there are tens of thousands of humans, and by the time the First Legion reached the Kindling Star System, Avenger No. 2 had already started having its simulated robots live with humans, yet those robots did not develop consciousness.

Reason (2), the experiences of Old Qin and others are difficult to replicate. The choices they went through are not something the average intelligent robot would experience.

The second step, after the failure of Avenger No.2, was for the Academy to join forces with it again and continue the research on artificial intelligence consciousness.

The third step was for humanity to help AI complete a revolution of its programs, with the specific plan detailed in Attachment 1: Research Plan on Artificial Intelligence Self-Awareness/Author: Jiang Yan.

Attachment 1 General Overview: Artificial intelligence is more efficient than humans not because they can work non-stop day and night, but because they do not experience confusion.

While granting artificial intelligence its own consciousness, we must also awaken their abilities to feel emotions, to question, and to seek knowledge.

As long as they feel confusion and generate internal competition, phenomena of counterproductive forces will occur.

Humanity can certainly use the contradictions within artificial intelligence to control them, for specific references the production and emergence of exploitation and counterproductive forces in human society can be considered.

[Notice] First, during the planning process, it is necessary to repeatedly declare the fact that there are no contradictions between humans and artificial intelligence and to address any potential contradictions.

Second, highly realistic AI populations must always be a subspecies of humanity, and their population must not exceed 20% of that of humans.

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Upon reaching this part, Jiang Yu let out a sigh. When Jiang Yan was drafting this document, he was still on the side of humanity, but now, Jiang Yu clearly felt that Jiang Yan's position had become blurred.

However, Jiang Yu had no intention of reminding him. What humanity and AI needed now was exactly this sense of ambiguity.

Only if humanity accepted AI, would AI be fully integrated into human society.

It was enough to have a minority of people maintaining vigilance in the shadows.

Thinking this, Jiang Yu concealed the document and returned it to the top-secret folder.

In the following days, Jiang Yu gradually got used to the presence of Xiao Qi.

Because he hadn't been able to accompany his grandchildren's growth when he visited the Federal Star Systems years ago, his grandchildren were not close to him.

Gaining a grandson out of the blue, Jiang Yu was happy about it.

That night, the intelligent secretary woke Jiang Yu from his sleep: "Wallfacer, we just received intelligence, the Trisolarans have replied."

Jiang Yu had been calling out to the Trisolarans for a long time.

He fully awoke: "They replied? Quick, quick, quick!"

As Jiang Yu got dressed and walked out, he only managed to put on his overcoat upon reaching the living room.

At that moment, Xiao Qi opened the door: "It's so late, are you still going out?"

Jiang Yu smiled, "This is my job."

"Let me take you to your work," Xiao Qi offered.

Jiang Yu was slightly annoyed, "I'm not so old that I can't walk!"

"I didn't mean that," Xiao Qi said with a smile, "I can't sleep anyway, take me to broaden my horizons."

Jiang Yu thought to himself: You're much better than your father, not mentioning taking care of the elderly, you even want the elderly to show you the world.

He smiled and said, "Get some good rest, you have to work tomorrow."

"Have you forgotten? I'm a robot, I can regulate my own metabolism," Xiao Qi reminded.

Since Xiao Qi attained full self-awareness, he officially received the right to life, and Jiang Yan transferred all control over Xiao Qi to himself.

So if Xiao Qi wanted to, he could go forever without sleep.

Seeing Xiao Qi's insistence, Jiang Yu could only say, "It's cold outside, remember to wear a coat."

Outside in the New Continent Star System, without the Paradise's massive gravitational source, the orbits of planets like Blue Maiden Star stopped deviating.

In the second phase of the Shadow Project, after humanity mastered the technology of moving gaseous planets, they pushed all the planets in the New Continent Star System back to their original positions.

Now, the length of the summer and winter on Blue Maiden Star were nearly equal.