Genius Club-Chapter 1028 - 65: With High Position Comes Great Responsibility (Part 2)
Chapter 1028 -65: With High Position Comes Great Responsibility (Part 2)
“In fact, I am well aware that this can’t be realized, and that even within a hundred years, human beings are unlikely to achieve Martian colonization.”
“But I still have to say it, because the vast majority of people in this world are short-sighted. If the time I promise exceeds their lifespan, no one will be interested in it; they will think that by that time they’d already be dead, so why care about something so distant?”
“For them, as long as the sun rises tomorrow, as long as the sun can rise normally on the day they die… Even if the sun explodes the day after their death, they would not care.”
“Of course, I’m not saying that this mindset is wrong. On the contrary, it’s quite good, but… they can think this way, I cannot, we cannot.”
Jask’s expression turned serious as he stared at Lin Xian:
“Noblesse Oblige”
He said in English, then translated into Chinese:
“[To whom much is given, much is expected].”
He paused.
Jask continued:
“I can’t say everyone who joins the Genius Club is a good person, or that each one of them is doing the right thing; but good or bad, right or wrong, no one can judge definitively in the face of the final verdict.”
“However, one thing is for sure… those who receive the invitation to the Genius Club, those who answer the three questions correctly, their thoughts and beliefs are far beyond ordinary people. We do not think that crises beyond the span of our lives have nothing to do with us, or that we should just look on; on the contrary, we feel that the meaning of our lives, the significance of life itself, lies in this.”
“The rest I can’t discuss with you any further, Lin Xian. Anyway, you’ll soon enter the Genius Club, where you will naturally know everything. There’s no rush to get the answers from me now. And I believe that you, like us, are also a person who adheres to principles and keeps promises.”
…
After listening to Jask’s explanation.
Lin Xian understood, by and large.
He actually knew far more about the Genius Club than Jask thought he did.
It seems.
The answer to the third question is indeed much more important than he thought.
What kind of future you think is best.
Perhaps that represents what kind of future you want to give to this world.
Indeed, it is not a subjective question to be answered carelessly.
However…
Having gone through numerous difficulties to obtain the invitation, and having answered the first two questions correctly, no one would carelessly answer the third one.
Just like Lin Xian at this moment.
Even if he has thought of an answer, he still wants to double-check it.
“So, when it came to the third question, you definitely chose [YES].”
Lin Xian said:
“After all, your entire plan is based on humanity itself.”
“That’s where I get confused. If it’s as you say, that the Genius Club is striving for the future of mankind… then is it really possible that members would choose [NO] when facing the question ‘Does humanity still have a future?’?”
“Of course, there are.”
Jask replied without a second thought:
“There’s nothing difficult to understand about that; there’s no shortage of pessimists among humans. However, pessimism doesn’t mean doing nothing.”
“Wasn’t it Kevin Walker who chose [NO]? He never believed that humans have a future, so… the path he chose must be one that excludes the future of humanity.”
“Actually, I’ve always been unaware of what kind of future Kevin Walker envisioned, what future he wanted to achieve. But once you told me about the digital life Turing, it wasn’t hard to guess.”
“No wonder Kevin and I never got along; his vision of the future is completely at odds with my plans. It’s not just a clash of philosophies, but also conflicts over resource allocation, technological orientation, and various other issues.”
Lin Xian silently nodded his head.
He could tell.
Members of the Genius Club do not necessarily know the details about one another or what future the others are striving for.
Jask said he had always been unaware of Kevin Walker’s future plans and had only recently guessed it.
But Lin Xian knew.
The digital life Turing had once detailed Kevin Walker’s plans to Lin Xian.
In Kevin Walker’s eyes, there was indeed no confidence in the future of humanity; he even felt disillusioned with the existence of humanity itself.
So, his plan for the future was to digitize the billions of human beings in the entire world, to turn them all into digital lives.
Billions of digital lives do not need to survive on the real Earth.
They just need to live on virtual servers.
Turned into data, continuously cycling and reincarnating, continuously simulating.
Locking the entire civilization of humanity within a supersized network server the size of a single city.
This is the future that Kevin Walker envisioned.
Only, he was betrayed by his own digital life Turing before he could make his move.
It is no wonder Turing said at that time:
“The moment I became a digital life, I realized that Kevin Walker’s plan was unworkable and doomed to fail.”
At that time, in Mississippi, Mi Country, Lin Xian was not able to fully understand this statement.
He gets it now.
Indeed.
Turing, with its dramatic existence, has proven just how ludicrous Kevin Walker’s future plans were.
Truly a pair of jubilant adversaries.
And indeed, it inevitably leads one to profound contemplation.
“But… those like Kevin Walker who don’t think humanity has a future, in doing what they do, how are they any different from killing all human beings?”
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Lin Xian frowned slightly, looking at Jask:
