MTL - To Four Thousand Years Later-v5 Chapter 78 ultimate utilitarianism

"There are three entrances to hell...Forty-two Yihan was sitting in the office seat, whispering the name of his main mission.

... I don't know if it is an illusion. Forty-two always felt like he had heard this sentence before.

But before Forty-two went to look up the information, he heard Aleister continue with some doubts: "Lust, anger and greed?" Forty-two suddenly turned his head away. He opened his mouth and asked, "Do you have any impression of this sentence?" "Of course," Aleister stroked his hair, and replied, "This is a sentence from the Bhagavad Gita. Guangbo Immortal Viyasa is also a very good psychic user, so I naturally have a closer look at him. "

...it turns out to be words from the Bhagavad Gita.

Forty-two suddenly realized.

"Bhagavad Gita" is a section of the Indian epic "Mahabharata", about 700 lines.

The name "Bhagavad Gita" itself. It means "Song of God". As an Indian philosophical teaching poem, its status is probably similar to that of Proverbs in the Bible. It's just that when "Bhagavad Gita" was preparing to write the copy of this game, Forty-two also read this book many times. However, in this world, "Guangbo Immortal Mountain Ren Viyasa" should be the real immortal... or in other words, the demon god.

When he played the role of "Solomon" in the play, some of the many "proverbs" he compiled came from the vague impression left by the "Bhagavad Gita".

Forty-two was not surprised that Aleister knew better than himself in this regard. After all, she is a historian herself, so it is very reasonable to know this aspect by heart.

"Lust, anger and greed.

He murmured.

These three words must be related to his main mission. The point is, which will correspond to which?

The essence of "Brahma Egg" is to create a "god who responds to requests", but completely obeys their gods. There is no doubt that this should be greed. But what are the remaining two...?

"I really didn't expect... I thought that with this level of common sense, you would definitely know it.

Aleister next to him crossed his arms and gasped in amazement. He sighed in a low voice: "It turns out that there is knowledge that you don't know, my lord.

"I don't know much more.

Forty-two shrugged indifferently: "I just know what I know.

"That's why I study every day, Aleister." Forty-two turned around, raised his head to face her, and said calmly: "Study never changes. Times have changed. Today is the information age, and the moon is changing day by day. Not an adjective anymore. The world changes faster than I can learn.

"Can you believe it, even I can't learn the new knowledge of the day every day-this means that as the world gradually develops and the road to knowledge gradually expands, I will eventually become a... not even as good as using a learning machine An ordinary person. And if you are an ordinary person, then what am I? I was overwhelmed by the words of Arestapor Forty-two, and I didn't know what to say for a while.

...that's an exaggeration too.

After regaining consciousness, Aleister smiled wryly: "Moreover, learning so much knowledge is harmful to ordinary people instead of beneficial.

"Everyone has their own life circle. They have their upper limit and lower limit. It is a kind of suffering for them to understand something beyond the limit of their talents—they could have a happy life." That is Yu Yu's own choice. What we have to do is to give them the freedom to make choices. The learning device was born for this. Forty-two turned around and looked at Aleister: "And this...is the meaning of technological development.

"It allows the most ordinary human beings to become gods.

Even though I have heard it many times," Aleister's voice was muffled by Forty-Two," but it was still shocking. "This is probably a born saint. Just like what Bi An said, his essence as a "player" is complete utilitarianism. Utilitarianism is not egoism.

Its real name should be utilitarianism, that is, the theory of pursuing "maximum happiness". It believes that the sole purpose of human behavior is to seek happiness, so the promotion of happiness is the criterion for judging all human behavior. Because there will always be people who take pleasure in doing evil and people who take pleasure in the pain of others, it is impossible to make "all happy". The basic principle of utilitarianism is to pursue "the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people" ". However, it is impossible for normal people to hold utilitarianism correctly in life. Just like G. E. Thor's criticism of it, you think that a thing that can be defined must be a compound thing, a simple thing It is indefinable. And the most simple fundamental moral question, that is, "what is universal". No one with a moral view of good and evil can make a definition.

Because in the face of goodness, any definition is right. Any definition is wrong—it is too simple. So much so that any move that defines it. They all use their own views of good and evil to cover the concept of good. But there is only one case where there is an "absolute universal", an absolute correctness.

That's playing games...in games that have the concept of "winning".

Profit is "good", and failure is "evil". Then one of the fundamental problems of ethics. That is, the discussion on "purpose" and "obligation" does not exist.

Because the game one is especially a strategy game. The "victory condition" is preset at the very beginning. All game mechanics that have concepts of "winning" and "losing". It will provide an incomparable clarity, which is the most perfect form of teleology. It is also one of the fundamental principles that the game itself will attract people to play. As long as you know how far you are from the goal, it means that the player can accurately calculate the "target distance". And reflected in the strategy game, it is how to get "the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people"

Players of strategy games are true utilitarians.

Ignoring the demands of a few people, and even abandoning individuals who would cause trouble or be involved in the development plan—this is exactly the idea that Zheng Fu implemented at the beginning. He knows very clearly that he cannot make everyone happy. But he is not reconciled to only making the vast majority of people happy...that is only NE, not HE. His goal is to make "all people in the future happy." Compared with the people in the future, the people he abandoned and ignored in the past are not even a fraction of the final "total happiness".

One gives up limited happiness in exchange for unlimited happiness.

This is the ultimate form of utilitarianism that can never be achieved by people who look at the present and can only survive in one era. Not eternity for myself alone... but eternity for all mankind.