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论宇宙、生命与AI探讨了生命如何在冷漠的宇宙中施加价值，以及人类与工具、文化、科学和AI如何共同塑造这个价值体系。
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Ivan Zhao 最新发表在X的文章: "On Universe, Life, and AI"。很优美，富有诗意和哲思。用AI翻译了一版，方便阅读。
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The universe doesn't care.
宇宙是冷漠的。
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Life, such as humans, cares and does have a value system.
而生命（如人类）却在乎，且拥有一套价值体系。
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If possible, all amoebas, flowers, and humans would want to live like kings. That is the value system of life.
若有可能，变形虫、花朵和人类都渴望如王者般生存。这就是生命的价值体系。
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The quest for life is to exert that value against this cold universe that doesn't care.
生命的追求，便是将这种价值，施加于这冷漠无情的宇宙之上。
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In this quest, each life and human is confined within their own reach and age. But life has this magic to summon more life, and discover tricks and trades among the alliance of lives — to arrange the energy of the universe according to their value.
在这种追求中，每个生命、每一个人，都受限于自身的触及范围与所处时代。但生命拥有一种魔力：它能召唤更多生命，并在生命同盟中探索出合作的秘诀与交易——从而按照它们的价值观来编排宇宙的能量。
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Flowers borrow legs from bees to spread, and give pollen as food in exchange. Or, cells and bacterias marry to save on plumbing bills, and become mitochondria.
花朵借蜜蜂的腿来繁衍，以花粉作为交换。或者，细胞与细菌为了节省“管道开销”而结合，最终演化成了线粒体。
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Humans accelerate the discovery of these tricks and trades with culture and tools, sculpting the universe further towards life and humanity's value.
人类通过文化与工具加速了对这些秘诀与交易的发现，将宇宙进一步雕琢成符合生命与人类价值的模样。
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Tools like wheels transport heavy loads of atoms better than legs. Wheels didn't happen with meatball lives, but it finally happened with human brains and clever arrangements of wood and stone.
像车轮这样的工具，在搬运沉重的原子负荷时远胜于双腿。车轮并没有在血肉之躯的生命中自然生长出来，但最终借由人类的大脑，以及对木石的巧妙组合而诞生了。
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Money and capital are also tools and tricks. They are the wheels and legs that convey information about energy and human preferences, and often store energy better than atoms.
金钱与资本同是工具与秘诀。它们是传递能量信息与人类偏好的车轮和双腿，且往往比原子更善于储存能量。
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Languages, memes, songs, and math are like that too. They shepherd human tricks and trades through space and time. They are humans' bee-dance to tell where the pollen is, has been, or might be going to be.
语言、模因、歌曲和数学也是如此。它们引领着人类的秘诀与交易穿越时空。它们就像人类的“八字舞”，告诉同伴花粉现在在哪里、曾经在哪里，或者可能将去向何方。
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Together, those human-created tools and tricks are like non-meatball forms of life with varying degrees of vitality. They join the alliance with the rest of meatball life to spread life's value in this cold universe.
这些由人类创造的工具与秘诀汇聚在一起，就像是具有不同生命力的非血肉形态的生命。它们加入了其余血肉生命的联盟，在这冰冷的宇宙中播撒生命的价值。
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Among this alliance of life, competition is the shared love language. The VW Beetle is competing with insect beetles and the Beatles' songs for Mother Life's attention and her milk of energy.
在这个生命同盟中，竞争是共同的爱的语言。大众甲壳虫汽车正与昆虫甲壳虫、以及披头士乐队（The Beatles）的歌曲，共同争夺生命之母的关注与她赐予的能量乳汁。
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Population growth expands this alliance of life. More bees and more humans bring more brains and GPUs to come up more tools, tricks, and trades. More life begets more.
种群的增长扩张了这一生命同盟。更多的蜜蜂与更多的人类带来了更多的大脑和 GPU，从而构想出更多的工具、秘诀与交易。生命孕育更多生命。
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Diversity strengthens this alliance of life. In fact, diversity is the very vitality of this union. It allows for a finer division of labor to organize the citizens of this alliance against the indifferent universe.
多样性增强了这一生命同盟。事实上，多样性正是这个联盟的生命力所在。它允许更精细的分工，从而将这个同盟的公民组织起来，共同对抗冷漠的宇宙。
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The Industrial Revolution is one such trick of organization. Fire, iron, and buried batteries from past lives free the current lives from the food stamps of the yearly sun. This momentary creative freedom breeds more brains and memes to unearth more tricks and treasures.
工业革命就是这样一种组织的秘诀。火、铁，以及来自过往生命的“地下电池”（化石燃料），将当代的生命从每年太阳赐予的“粮票”中解放出来。这片刻的创造自由，孕育了更多的大脑与模因，去发掘出更多的秘诀与宝藏。
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Science is another trick of organization. It orients brains and memes away from stories and opinions, but towards facts. And facts are the steel that made skyscrapers of memes and tricks possible, no more house of cards.
科学是另一种组织的秘诀。它引导大脑与模因远离故事与观点，转而朝向事实。而事实正是钢铁，让模因与秘诀构筑的摩天大楼成为可能，不再只是纸牌屋。
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Cities and books are another such organizational trick. They are the pubs where brains and memes meet, so brain-bees can travel less to mix the pollen of memes. The internet and Reddit are the pubs on weekends.
城市与书籍也是类似的组织秘诀。它们是大脑与模因相聚的酒馆，让“大脑蜜蜂”们不必长途跋涉，便能混合模因的花粉。互联网和 Reddit 则是周末的酒馆。
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Tools for atoms and tools for thoughts arrange the universe in favor of humanity and life's value system.
操纵原子的工具与塑造思想的工具，正将宇宙的秩序重组得更有利于人类与生命的价值体系。
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And here comes AI.
而如今，AI 来了。