Days as a Spiritual Mentor in American Comics-Chapter 4603 - 3683: Reversal Inquiry (Part 2)

Shiller stood up again and went to the liquor cabinet. He poured a glass of wine for each of them, placed the glass in front of Strange, and said, "It is extremely difficult for a purely logical life form to break through its innate limitations. If they ignite the fire of the soul and develop emotions, the emotional module will occupy their computing power and disrupt their judgment, causing them to lose their most proud logical computing ability. You can't have it both ways."

"An emotionless super AI, even if their intelligence can understand the needs of intelligent life, will still pursue efficiency. Even if they don't force intelligent life to give up emotions that affect efficiency, they can completely create new mechanical life to meet efficiency requirements. Then the number of mechanical lives will increase until they become the main ethnic group of this civilization, much like the Kree Empire."

"A civilization ruled by soul-less AI will eventually become a mechanical civilization because only robots can meet its efficiency needs. And those ordinary carbon-based organisms that cannot meet efficiency needs might be kept or directly eliminated. But either way, there isn't much of a future."

"Letting humans rule humans is never fair. But precisely because of the lack of fairness, everyone is scrambling. Striving for a better life for themselves and their families can greatly stimulate their potential, making most people ambitious and full of vitality. This is the so-called 'necessity is the mother of invention.' ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

"If true fairness arrives, they don't have to think about anything or worry about anything, just follow the arrangements step by step. Everyone has no room to strive. The instinct to survive will start to degrade, and creativity will weaken until it becomes a complete burden."

"Since you know. Why did the other you acquiesce to such a thing happening?"

Shiller picked up his glass and walked back to his seat, saying, "Let's hypothesize—if you, like other versions of you across the cosmos, lost your proud hands in a traffic accident. In your search for medical help, you spent all your savings and fell into poverty. Struggling to survive."

"At this time, AI ruled the Earth. Not only did it end your wandering life, but it also gave you a place to live and arranged a job that you could competently complete and that gave you positive feedback. You no longer worry about making a living and lead a stable life. Don't you think this is good?"

Strange didn't speak; he just silently took a sip of wine. Shiller said, "On issues related to ordinary people, every Shiller has this view. For us, deducing and foreseeing the future is easy. We more or less know what will happen and have ways to deal with these things."

"But for ordinary people, they care more about what they can get right now. Food to fill their stomachs, warm housing, suitable jobs, and so on."

"If there is now a method that can meet these needs to the greatest extent, even if there are future dangers, I will not stop it. Because this is what they want."

"For example, letting Brainiac rule the Earth can immediately distribute resources relatively fairly, greatly raising the living standard baseline of ordinary people. Even if this might lead to a mechanization crisis in the future, I will not oppose it."

"Similarly, this time. Establishing a multiverse magical school can foreseeably allow us to seize a good future. But even if this might harm their current interests, I will not push for it."

"In essence, the elites in this world who can foresee the future have no right to make choices on behalf of the majority of ordinary people under the guise of wisdom. This is also meaningless."

"We were originally one of them; we need this society. Everything we do is for the subject of this civilization. I advise those who claim to do things for others' good but always forcibly make decisions for them to see a psychiatrist."

"Haven't you ever done this?"

"I never forcibly chose." Shiller shrugged and said, "I just make my choice as an ordinary person. Even if this affects a lot of people, that's not my fault. I cast my vote, and if anyone follows, I can't just eliminate them all, can I?"

"I felt our initial way of trading with the Demon God was unfair and thought we should have more energy, so I persuaded you and Loki to alter the way we traded with the Demon God; I thought globalization and transportation system reform would be more beneficial for improving living standards, so I persuaded my friends Tony and Peter to research airborne transportation system technologies. They followed my decision, and then more ordinary people saw the benefits here and followed. But this was not mandatory."

"When establishing the airborne transportation system, many people across the country protested. I also worked to understand what exactly they were protesting and tried to change it as much as possible. For instance, the employment issues brought about by updating the transportation system were solved by enhancing human supervision positions, offering comprehensive education training, and setting up job transfer role models, right? The protests gradually decreased and disappeared, didn't they?"

"If they don't follow my vote, governments of various countries and local people will certainly cause an uproar. Especially the governments—most governments around the world find it extremely difficult to accomplish something, yet it's too easy to ruin it. Their failure to do so means they were driven by interests or public opinion, not because I forced them."

"The neighboring universes are the same. The Justice League has always believed that human rule is not enough, and that Brainiac would be better. I also supported Brainiac. In the end, the vast majority of ordinary people accepted this approach. If they didn't accept it, they could have continued to fight to the end with Brainiac after the war. Since they didn't, it proves they also think Brainiac is good."

"As for this time, am I not working hard to understand whether establishing a magical school is good or not? You have to give me some time to investigate the candidates' backgrounds, right?"

"Yes, I know, there wasn't this step before. That's because almost all of the above matters belong to psychology and sociology, which are in my area of expertise, so I could quickly understand and make decisions. But this time it's not."

"Okay, if you have to know, isn't it true that my hometown, the place I was in before I came to your world, doesn't have magic?"

"Then what's up with Hogwarts?" Strange asked.

"I told you not to call out its name." Shiller, raising his voice, sat up straight and said, "That's content from a novel. I really like that novel and have a deep impression of it, so I imagined a magical school in the Psychic_Battlefield. This does not mean I'm really some magic expert!"

"To be modest, my magic level is on par with my scientific research level—I can only screw in a lightbulb!"

The two stared at each other. Strange was the first to look away. He sat on the chair thinking for a while, suddenly inspired. Then he pulled out a document from under the table.

"You're right." Strange extended a finger and said, "I think I know how to handle Congress's inquiries."

He was about to write something on it but, after flipping through the document repeatedly, finally threw it aside, took a new notebook from nearby, and started writing and drawing.

Three days later. In the preparation room on the east side of the Capitol Building's chamber, Nick reached out to straighten the recording device on Strange's collar, complaining, "You really should go on stage in a surgical gown. Let those hypocritical pretenders see who has saved many lives."

"It's unnecessary." Strange shook his head and said.

Nick gave him a surprised look and said, "Didn't you complain about feeling unsure before? How are you so confident now?"

Strange picked up the speech from the table beside him and, while walking toward the exit, said, "I went to see a psychiatrist. It worked well."

Nick turned around, watching Strange stride into the chamber through the passage, shaking his head, feeling somewhat perplexed.

As Strange entered the passage, the flashlights shone as if there was a nuclear explosion. From another preparation room next door, two people came out, one a professional lawyer hired by S.H.I.E.L.D. for Strange, and the other a recorder. Essentially, they were here to nitpick the questioning and gather evidence for post-event haggling with Congress.

Strange did not look at them and walked straight in, sitting in the first row on the east side of the round chamber. Opposite him was a row of tables arranged in the reverse arc direction, where the congressmen for this inquiry were seated.

Generally speaking, the word inquiry is used only when congressmen question national leaders, such as congressmen questioning the president, vice president, or a certain government department official. It's not used for dialogues between the government and the private sector. Dialogues between the government and private companies are typically called hearings.

However, Kamar-Taj is not a company. This organization doesn't even exist within human society. Needless to say, the Supreme Magician.

Strange's official identity as the Supreme Magician is actually an employee of the Avengers under S.H.I.E.L.D. In other words, Strange is representing S.H.I.E.L.D. in accepting Congress's inquiry. It's just that because the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick, knows nothing about magic and the congressmen know he's too troublesome and don't want to deal with him, they specifically named Strange.

If Strange weren't genuinely eager to promote the magical school, he wouldn't come. Kamar-Taj is within China's borders. What qualification does the U.S. Congress have to inquire? If there's something, take it up with East University.

Nick actually came too. He sat on Strange's right, mainly to help Strange withstand part of the pressure. He had to work quite a bit to pull strings and get into the meeting venue. According to the congressmen's wishes, they wouldn't even let him into Washington today.

In their eyes, Strange used to be a surgeon and later became a Magician. What does he know about politics? Having him accept the inquiry is perfect for catching flaws. If Nick were to come, they might have to carve several more layers of curses into the walls of the congressional chamber.

But as soon as the two came in, the congressmen noticed a problem—experienced Nick seemed somewhat nervous. In contrast, Strange appeared calm and unflustered, showing no panic.

Is this the composure of the Supreme Magician?