"A man-made disaster?" Li Chen heard this without any change in his expression. Even Mei Xuan, who knew him so well, could not read the slightest thing from it.
Mei Xuan said, "Heavenly Dragon Peak may not compare with Heaven, but it has a full complement of intelligent systems, and its rules and regulations are steadily improving. Naturally, it cannot take the blame for this. When the branch was first established, some shortcomings in its facilities and defenses were understandable too. That leaves the people responsible for the accident."
"Perhaps it really was an accident at first, but the response afterward was so slow that something felt wrong to me. Someone may have wanted to seize the opportunity and let the mistake run its course."
Li Chen said, "Indeed. Heavenly Dragon Peak uses quite a lot of artificial intelligence and modern management techniques. It can already be considered developed. For a blunder like this to happen there is a complete joke, but there is nothing funny about it."
Perhaps human thinking and habits were, by their very nature, obstacles to the development of intelligent machinery.
If humans still held the dominant position, selfish motives or all manner of oversights could reduce intelligent systems to mere window dressing. So it had been throughout the ages.
In a sense, laws and rules were also programs, and legislation was program design. This was the rational side of humanity.
The solution Li Chen proposed was to use Puppet Dao methods to achieve "freedom from desire" and "stillness"-in other words, to modify humans in both body and spirit, bringing them closer to perfection. This philosophy came from the same lineage as the Perfect Person Project.
Unfortunately, even within Materialized Heaven, they were only advancing toward a modest degree of harmony. Its people's qualities had yet