Players Invade Cyberpunk

Chapter 1204 - 391: The True Meaning of the Heart of the Horizon, and the Real Strength of Collective Power_2

This is just the representation of information data; the actual internal volume of data, if recorded in books, would require at least ten thousand times more.Above these towering bookshelves, a terrifying chaotic vortex hovers in the sky like a giant beast lurking in the data space, constantly spewing massive amounts of data onto the shelves below.

During the data transmission, over a hundred AIs simultaneously search-analyze-judge-classify them, finally transforming them into a book that falls onto a shelf somewhere.

Richard Knight’s data body stands beside Lin Miao, looking exactly like the one seen in reality, curiously observing everything around.

"Is this... your company’s library?"

Lin Miao shook his head.

"No, this is everything."

"Everything?"

"Yes, everything."

Lin Miao, along with Richard Knight, flew upwards, passing through layer upon layer of bookshelves like ghosts from Hogwarts due to the data body not having a collision model.

Along the way, Richard Knight couldn’t restrain his curiosity and attempted to read some of the materials, but was shocked.

For this was the information of a Night City citizen, and everything about that citizen.

Literally everything.

From initial asset flow, work content, physical examination, family relations, to daily eating, drinking, excretion, travel trajectories, even every encounter and every word spoken, down to when he defecates, how long it lasts, how many sheets of paper are used to wipe, every minute of intercourse with his wife is meticulously recorded.

All collected materials are there, from paper documents to electronic files to surveillance videos, plus a massive number of hyperlinks.

What illnesses exist, which medicines should be taken, which companies produce them, relevant insurance, market flow prices, and what the components of medicines are broken down infinitely onto more books.

It’s a literal record of all effective information about this person in society.

Richard Knight was stunned.

Citizens have always been very resistant and reluctant to the company’s collection of personal privacy data.

Though they are incapable of resisting.

But why do I feel like you are the real villain here?

Lin Miao seemed to know what Richard Knight was thinking, he countered.

"Do you think humans are stupid? Especially when their numbers grow into a collective, intelligence and rationality decline exponentially, becoming very emotional and extreme? Clearly, there are calm, wise individuals among them, but once they join the collective, this rationality seems to disappear, becoming blind followers."

Richard Knight replied.

"Gustave Le Bon’s ’The Crowd’."

"Correct."

Lin Miao nodded.

"Some points in it are indeed good, but the whole book, in my opinion, is filled with subjectivity and lacks investigative spirit."

Richard Knight said.

"But you can’t deny the content in his book is repeated again and again in history, the Paris Commune turning from revolution to riot, those years of protests turning to vandalism riots, and later online trends.

A burgeoning online concept quickly gathers like-minded people, and radical slogans always override calm voices, leading the whole group to extremism, indiscriminately conducting witch hunts internally and externally, no matter how good the concept initially was, it always ends in chaos."

Lin Miao raised his eyebrows, looked at him and said.

"I think you people have a lot of responsibility for these things."

This actually represents the memory of Richard Knight’s generation regarding the internet, where company-funded troll armies lay dormant online, slandering, deconstructing, and guiding any data potentially threatening their interests into innocuousness.

Lin Miao withdrew his gaze.

"But these ultimately stem from the ignorance of individuals."

"Ignorance? There may be academics among them."

"This kind of ignorance doesn’t refer to personal knowledge or wisdom, but — the lack of public knowledge."

Public knowledge, which everyone knows, and everyone knows everyone knows, and everyone knows everyone knows everyone knows...

Thus it can infinitely nest in knowledge.

Here’s a simple example.

No deep consideration of mathematical concerns.

Everyone knows 1+1=2, everyone knows everyone knows 1+1=2...

This question requires no explanation or consideration, even when selling vegetables, the vendor presumes customers know how much to pay, no one can deceive anyone on this matter, this is public knowledge.

Lin Miao saw Richard Knight deep in thought and said.

"I’ll give you a logic puzzle: on an island with a hundred Blue Eyes people, they’re all smart... stop looking, I’m not talking about you, just an example, a chestnut, you understand."

After a brief awkwardness, Lin Miao continued.

"There’s a rule on this island that once you know your own eye color, you must commit suicide, an ironclad rule that cannot be violated, and any form of discussing eye color is prohibited on the island, no suggestion or declaration, no mirrors or reflective objects, can’t see one’s face.

And one day, a stranger comes to the island, stands in the square, gathers all villagers, and says to them ’Among you, at least one has blue eyes.’ Then... on what day will the village people start committing suicide?"

This logic puzzle is too simple for an AI; after brief simulated calculations, nesting 99 times, Richard reached the answer.