Ever since human beings looked up at the stars and began to think about “who am I”, they finally came to the conclusion that “the meaning of life’s existence is the reduction of entropy”, and all we have done is to establish a microscopic order for this chaotic universe.
According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is natural and its entropy increases. It overlooks all living beings and erodes all things. Even if it is as great as Einstein and as tough as Hawking, it is powerless. Looking at history, there is silence after the noise, prosperity is short, and heat death is the final destination… …
In this sense, human beings are born to “go against the sky”.
We are tiny as a speck of dust, yet we fight against the universe.
We only have 70 years, yet we have to contend with 14 billion years of creation.
This is even more tragic than Sisyphus who was against God.
What is the purpose of human existence?
However, even some great philosophers have insight into this ending.
But they are still not reconciled to this fate. They want to find a “silver chance” for human beings through reasoning and calculation. Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant, the leaders of carbon-based life, all strive to be Maxwell’s demons. I want to use my personal algorithm power to find the absolute existence in the dark and understand whether human beings are a meaningless “recursive loop”.
Even if you have top-notch intelligence, your personal algorithm capabilities will eventually be exhausted. You must find more effective ways to make further progress in mathematics and philosophy. In addition to optimizing algorithms, it is also a good idea to concentrate silicon-based algorithm power to serve human beings. means.
On the surface, the pursuit of algorithmic power is for the pursuit of wealth, but there is also a careful pursuit of truth behind it.
Algorithmic power may be an effective means for mankind to lead to a higher civilization, and it is also the most effective way to fight against the increase of entropy.
When it comes to the ultimate meaning, from the nature of science, having more algorithmic power is more meaningful than having money.
Bitcoin’s current network-wide algorithm power reaches about 30 million trillion hash collisions per second, which is equivalent to about 600 Tianhe-2 supercomputers. It seems to be powerful, but if you look at the entire starry sky and really want to find the meaning of the universe, this computing power is not even a power. In my opinion, algorithmic power is to remove the weight of human nature in the whole system. In the future, it may go beyond the carbon-based will and become an unexpected protective net for us. Now we can’t be too suspicious of the algorithm’s power and mechanism, which takes time to test, and if we can’t find a better way, we can’t overestimate our critical power.
Some people also say that such an algorithmic power mechanism is not elegant. Every 10 minutes or so, 30 million trillion times of collisions produce a hash value that meets the requirements. But what is the aesthetics of the universe? “The first three minutes” exploded from an infinitely small point, and matter and energy were also generated. The power was so powerful at that moment, didn’t it also produce infinite beauty? Maybe the aesthetics of the universe is not necessarily the same as the aesthetics in our eyes.
The essence of hashing is mathematics. Should mathematics be on the side of art? We don’t know.
We can look at the beauty of algorithmic power from a different perspective. Those western villages that were originally silent and nameless, those territories that were never visited in the industrial age, because of the entry of algorithmic power , they began to emit a “sci-fi” light. These algorithmic power Scattered by the Dadu River, a tributary of the Minjiang River, indulging in the night in the Dalat Banner of Ordos, and sleeping soundly in a small town in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang… Science and technology civilization and the power of nature have achieved a fusion through algorithmic power .
Since Leibniz opened the door to mathematical logic, after the blessings of Boole, Gödel, Turing, von Neumann and others, it has gradually become an instinctive pursuit to have more algorithmic power. Here, we talk about the quantum algorithm power that everyone has been paying attention to.
In theory, one qubit can store infinite information, and the information stored in the qubit will always be in the process of dynamic evolution. That is to say, what you measure each time is not the same system, but a different world, so some people say that “quantum computing” uses parallel universes to calculate and has super parallel ability.
Suppose you are “Neo” in The Matrix, starting from “Tai Chi”, you have to open one of the “1 door” or “0 door” in “Liangyi”, and then open the “00 door” in “Sixiang” “, “Door 01”, “Door 10”, one of “Doors 11”, found Zion after walking the path 160 times. If Hunter Smith uses traditional calculations to analyze Neo’s path of more than 160 steps, the time required is 47515528679349475857 years. When he successfully exhausts it, Neo has liberated all mankind. But if Smith is in 2¹.6 million parallel realities, and each world only takes one path, he might be able to catch Neo in 30 minutes. This is the magic of superposition, and a quantum computer allows you to replicate 2¹⁶⁰ of them. Smith, everyone just needs to go one way. It is not that the super algorithmic power chooses quantum computing, but that quantum computing naturally has super algorithmic capabilities. Quantum is immortal, and it will not stop against the sky.
The power of quantum algorithms exhibits an unparalleled physical power, and when the power reaches a certain extreme, it is also a kind of beauty.
The biggest contradiction in the future of mankind is the contradiction between the increasing data processing and limited algorithm power! As a holder of algorithmic ability, in addition to seeing the beauty of algorithmic power, I also hope that algorithmic power can demonstrate its true power and maximize the limited algorithmic power.
This is also the reason why Bitmain is investing its energy in transitioning to AI chips. Bitmain wants to use its algorithm power to empower other industries, especially AI, which has a natural combination with algorithm power. I also hope that in the field of AI chip research and development, the algorithmic power can improve productivity more efficiently, combine with the blockchain, embrace the arrival of this new change, and jointly build a real blockchain civilized world. In 2016, AlphaGo’s victory over the Li Shishi incident has marked that human beings have entered an era of intelligence. When AI (productivity), big data (production materials), and blockchain (production relations) are truly combined in the future, it will be more efficient. And speed pushes civilization to a higher level.
The emergence of POWE DAO promotes the integration of algorithm power from all walks of life, makes algorithm power more interoperable, and innovatively solves problems such as decentralization of algorithm power, value trust guarantee of algorithm power, cross-border cross-border algorithm power, and flexible circulation of algorithm power. It aims to realize the bridge between the physical world and the byte world — “algorithmic power”, thereby redefining the credit and value of algorithmic power and becoming the next-generation infrastructure such as Web3, AI, and the Internet of Things.
Referring to the book “What is Life” written by the cat abuser Schrödinger, we can understand the algorithm power in this way. Life extracts orderly “algorithmic power” from the disordered environment to fight against the “entropy +” of the whole society, thereby delaying the universe The “heat death” process. Algorithmic power is in order, while all other disputes are out of order. If we look at algorithm power from this God’s perspective, recognize the second law of thermodynamics, and fail to find Maxwell’s demon, it has to be said that algorithm power is also Don Quixote fighting against windmills.
——Jihan Wu, June 2018
