"Because... too arrogant? Or was the situation urgent? So you absorbed the mory of an evil version of yourself." Tao Enhai rubbed his chin, "What did I say back then? Laboratory ethics are still very important, right?"
There was even a hint of schadenfreude in his tone.
Xiang Shan waved his hand. According to his experience of absorbing the Eighth Martial God and the Ninth Martial God, this sort of thing shouldn’t occur. Originally, cognitive dissonance of this nature shouldn’t have happened. The experience with the Eighth Martial God and the Ninth Martial God told him this wouldn’t be a problem.
Speaking of dubious practices, the Eighth Martial God was equally dubious, conducting inhumane human experints. He blatantly trampled on ethical principles. Moreover, Xiang Shan didn’t think that "good intentions" or "good results" could absolve "evil"—at most, it would only make the judgnt lighter due to factors like subjective motives.
Most importantly, the Eighth Martial God himself was already dead, having died eighty years ago in that "execution" where King Aqini took a city hostage.
Xiang Shan only obtained part of the Eighth Martial God’s mory.
Then ca the Ninth Martial God. The Ninth Martial God was just a low-level AI, with a logic of thinking different from humans, its actions rely "playing Xiang Shan"—it could even be said that the human brain abstracted and recreated Xiang Shan’s image from the AI’s behavior.
His thoughts were even more different from Xiang Shan’s.
Xiang Shan thought that the Holy Lord was probably about the sa level.
"Capturing the remnants of the Six Dragons Sect under the sea," "liberating the Intelligent Squid civilization," etc., were all things that needed to be done imdiately. Xiang Shan used the fastest and most direct way to experience all the mories of the Holy Lord, having all the data at his fingertips.
The result was this.
"If you ask , from the beginning, the first ti you received the mory of another version of yourself, there was already a problem," Tao Enhai said. "ans... manner aside, the Eighth Martial God did indeed conduct so research. But, while she was alive, there was no second Martial God, and she had no opportunity to interact with the other True Personality Masks of Xiang Shan. In other words, this theory of ’only soone enough like Xiang Shan can receive the Eighth Martial God’s legacy’ was her own hypothesis—even though various signs showed that much evidence supported this hypothesis, she never truly verified it."
"Naturally, the surgery you received was also the only ti it was applied to... a Martial God with a True Personality Mask. The only ti, with no other samples. What did you call dical research with a ’sample size of 1’ during the Superman Enterprise era?"
Xiang Shan seed to hear a "tsk" sound in his ear.
Auditory hallucination.
Xiang Shan knocked on his skull: "I’m really sorry, the research was quite barbaric. But, weren’t the conditions not too particular either? When we first developed the ’Path of Inner Strength’..."
"Although we were also experinting on ourselves a bit recklessly, at least we tried our best to align with dical research ethics. Especially with the first edition of the Inner Strength Training Guide aid at all Heroes," Tao Enhai said. "Right?"
Xiang Shan sighed: "Indeed."
"Don’t forget, ethics are a limit, but they are also a protection for humanity—here, ’humanity’ includes researchers like you and ."
Xiang Shan shook his head: "But, Doctor Tao, ethics can’t always be perfectly followed, right... For example, there’s a new drug that can cure a suddenly fatal disease..."
Tao Enhai said: "Did you forget? Control groups aren’t just about ’taking a placebo’ or ’blank controls.’ There’s also a positive control where ’the control group uses a clinically accepted effective product.’ If it’s reasonable to not use already-listed similar products, you can choose a product as similar as possible as the positive control, otherwise standard treatnt thods can be considered—which is to treat the control group the sa way they were originally treated. The experintal group just gets the addition of the ’new trial drug’ process, implying more risk."
Xiang Shan said: "That’s the issue. If none of the existing treatnts effectively prevent death, and if the results from animal tests show that the new drug is promising?"
The "Fierce Ghost" laughed behind Xiang Shan: [Yes, indeed, just like what you did in the past... "The existing thods can’t save human life, but the new thod can safely extend human life by hundreds of years, and judging by technological advancent speed, catching this wave of life extension ans catching immortality." "If we don’t hurry..."]
Tao Enhai bowed his head and remained silent for a mont: "Let’s go back to the previous topic. Before you had the surgery, the Eighth Martial God only operated on the brains of evil people, deriving the hypothesis that ’the more soone resembles Xiang Shan, the more likely it is to receive the legacy,’ and then designed a new surgery based on this hypothesis to inherit the research she completed eighty years ago. However, before you had this surgery, there was no precedent for this newly designed surgery."
"The Eighth Martial God didn’t even have a chance to conduct preliminary experints. He couldn’t quantify how much a person ’resembles Xiang Shan.’ Even if they injected Restoring Enzy into evil people and forced them to read Xiang Shan’s mory, it was all in vain. ’Becoming Xiang Shan’ requires a rather strong will."
Xiang Shan sighed: "At least the Eighth never did such things, right."
Tao Enhai nodded: "Although ’implanting artificial neural circuits in villains’ and ’implanting artificial neural circuits in Xiang Shan’ sounds very similar, from my standards, those are completely two different technologies, only related at the principle level. Fortunately, the Eighth Martial God’s legacy turned out a positive result on you and was controllable."
"And then, using the technical standards of the Eighth Martial God, you reconstructed that... Ninth Martial God’s AI. This is simply unheard of... You hadn’t conducted similar research before either? No precedent. There was a huge difference between the ’Eighth Martial God’s mory’ and the ’Ninth Martial God’s AI.’ Yet you still transford them directly."
"Maybe you really had a bit of luck, with only positive results both tis. So you thought this kind of thing was no big deal..."
Xiang Shan held his head: "Stop criticizing, stop criticizing..."
"How can we diagnose without analyzing the cause?" Tao Enhai sighed, "In any case, it still needs to be sorted out first, right?"
The "Fierce Ghost" sneered: [That’s how lab rats are used, lab rats. Isn’t there a shortage of lab rats that died due to the whims of researchers?]
Tao Enhai said: "Throughout this experience, many of the technologies involved are quite cutting-edge content. And your three mory absorptions, each ti more reckless than the last. Really, it’s hard to say anything about you."
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