Chapter 1919: Survivor bias (1/2)
Li Yao thought for a long time, but couldn't refute it. He just said: ”Perhaps it is the Pangu clan who awakened in the Kunlun ruins. It left me too deeply impressed. It is really hard for me to imagine the weakness of these giants. Compared to human beings, they are simply invincible.”
”This is the so-called'survivor deviation'.”
Long Yangjun said indifferently, ”It is very likely that the Pangu tribe we can see now are all examples. They themselves are the strongest among the strongest, while ordinary members of the Pangu civilization are far less powerful.
”It's like, if our expedition team is used as a sample to analyze, we will find that the ratio of Dan and Nasal Infants is scary, close to 100%, but it cannot be said that all humans are at least in the Dan Dan stage. The strong, right?
”The principle of the Pangu tribe is the same. Have you ever thought that the place where the corpse of the Pangu tribe was found in the past was not a battlefield, a secret base, or a laboratory like this.
”The people who are eligible to appear in this kind of place must be soldiers, strong men, and senior researchers from the Pangu tribe. These people will have to go through hundreds of thousands of years of screening. Those who are less powerful have long been selected. The ashes are gone, and there is no scum left. How could we find it?
”After layers of screening and the test of prolonged erosion, in the end, there are still basically intact corpses, and even those that can be resurrected. What is it that is not the strong among the strong?
”In a nutshell, only those who are strong enough can preserve the whole corpse for us to study. The vast majority of those that are not strong enough have long been annihilated in the long river of time. This is the'survivor bias'.”
Li Yao was skeptical: ”Really?”
”Yup.”
Long Yangjun said, ”If you still can't understand, let's give another example, are there too virtual warriors around you?”
Li Yao nodded and looked at the three shining, but dumb, new-generation Taixu soldiers in front of him: ”Yes, so what?”
Long Yangjun said: ”With your current strength, you can easily blast one hundred or eighty Taixu warriors, right? But this only represents your personal strength. Most ordinary people want to fight with one. The most advanced Taixu warriors are still quite strenuous to contend, not to mention the old and weak women and children, they are simply killed by the Taixu warriors.
”Suppose one day human civilization is destroyed, and Taixu warriors and crystal brains have reproduced a new kind of'mechanical civilization.' These explorers of mechanical civilization have dug up your'Three Realms Supreme, Vulture Li Yao' old man. Corpse, extracted your cells for analysis, and discovered the amazing energy contained in it that has not been completely annihilated after hundreds of thousands of years. From this, it is concluded that human beings are a powerful race that they absolutely cannot contend. Is the conclusion ridiculous?
”And do you think that if human civilization really perishes one day, whose corpse has a higher chance of being preserved, is it a super power like you and me, or an ordinary company employee, elementary school teacher, or waiter in a restaurant? ”
Li Yao looked at the three Taixu soldiers who were coordinating tactical instructions and preparing to enter the ”embryo warehouse” to explore, and muttered: ”You somewhat convinced me.”
Long Yangjun smiled and said: ”In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome. There is also obvious evidence that for the Pangu tribe, human beings are actually quite dangerous.”
Li Yaoqi said, ”What is that?”
”It's the ”Three Principles of Origin” itself!”
Long Yang Jundao, ”In your eyes, the'Three Principles of Origin' are the restrictions imposed by the Pangu tribe on human beings, a kind of seal and bondage, but you think about it, under what circumstances will you be able to Impose restrictions and restraints on a tool, and seal it up?
”If it is a random hammer, axe, etc., it definitely does not need to be restricted or restrained. Only those extremely dangerous, which may be able to bite the owner at any time, but are too versatile. They have long become the cornerstones of civilization and are tools that cannot be destroyed. , Will be banned and restrained.
”Hehe, I feel more and more that the Pangu people's attitude toward humans may be the same as the attitude of humans toward crystal brains and spirit nets.
”Humans created the crystal brain, but the crystal brain runs faster than most human brains. It can control various steel and iron bones and perform difficult tasks that ordinary people cannot perform.
”Humans are afraid of crystal brains. In all kinds of weird fantasy works, they have long imagined that crystal brains will one day awaken their consciousness and in turn consume their creators-humans.
”Human beings know this, but still can't do without crystal brain, they can only deceive themselves and set up a series of prohibitions in crystal brain, in an attempt to use this method to stifle the birth of'mechanical civilization, crystal brain civilization.'
”However, there are very few people of insight among human beings who realize that the birth of'mechanical civilization and crystal brain civilization' is inevitable, and actively study it, promote it, and try to make it more controllable. development of.