Overturned Tower

Russell's triple plan was a huge success.

...Or, maybe even a little too successful.

Considering the strong hostility towards synthetics on Tongshen Island, Russell also specially gave these children some comfort.

But I don’t know if it’s because the traffic attracted by Russell’s wave of hype is too high… or if the residents of Happy Island care more about “fuck these” than “synths may take away their jobs in the future.” The children are too cute."

no doubt.

If synthetic humans don't have a "nirvana" mechanism, they can be said to be the superior race of "human beings" with spiritual relatives in this world.

That's a complete upper replacement.

Spiritualization is to combat some kind of mental pollution, and synthetic humans made from baby brains will naturally acquire another protective state equivalent to "spiritual affinity". In other words, first of all, the underlying rules of the world allow them to exist.

And possessing the qualification to awaken spiritual energy means that a hole has been punched through the protective wall of the spiritual relative, and he has been exposed to the spiritual plague whose specific effects are unknown. The probability of a synthetic person awakening to psychic powers is obviously lower than that of a human being - except for the monkey-faced eagle who is also the same egg as Russell, there is currently no second synthetic person who has awakened to psychic powers.

Moreover, there is a limit of human knowledge at the hardware level... that is the limit of learning ability.

The essence of human society is division of labor, so knowledge can be subdivided almost infinitely in various fields. At the application layer, no matter how technology develops, learning pressure can be reduced by learning knowledge in subdivided areas, so as to complete the necessary learning conditions within a limited time.

But this is only for "users".

"Pioneers" and "creators" face another difficulty - as more and more knowledge is accumulated, the cost of time and energy required to learn the current existing knowledge will become higher and higher. As pioneers and creators, they cannot only learn knowledge in one subdivided field through infinite subdivisions, but must learn by analogy... But just catching up with "the most popular research results at the moment" is already exhausting their efforts. . If you want to stand on the shoulders of giants, the climbing time required will continue to increase.

As the “surface” of knowledge continues to grow, the number of research teams active in the most advanced fields will gradually increase.

At the forefront of every field, there may be several top research teams conducting research. Later researchers must first learn increasingly difficult and complex cutting-edge knowledge, and then they can barely climb onto the shoulders of this giant. The most terrifying part is that the size of the giant itself is still increasing rapidly. Even the rate of increase is faster than that of later generations.

But at the same time, human lifespan has its limits. As human beings play a role in society, the time they can devote to learning is even more limited.

Because even researchers must consider life. It is impossible for them to devote their lives completely just to catch up with the top level of academic circles.

Because of this, the more technology develops, the faster the development of cutting-edge technology will be, and the weaker the successors will be, thus forming a fault line in the academic community.

Because it is almost impossible for subsequent scholars to catch up with the pioneers through several years of study, and before that they were not "pioneering". Their research is likely to just prove what their predecessors have already proven. Then, it will be difficult for them to earn a high enough income.

At the same time, the most cutting-edge scholars continue to carry out excellent developments, even directly interrupting an era. Then the successors can only learn and create in the fields pioneered by front-end scholars... and when they learn and master it, those in front can launch newer platform technologies... such as a certain engine, a certain environment , a certain chip.

So the successors could only quickly abandon the old technologies that had been abandoned and learn newer technologies...

Up to this point, there will also be a terrible scissor gap at the level of academics - the more fields are filled by cutting-edge research teams, the lower the possibility of overtaking in corners, and the more terrifying this scissor gap becomes.

The so-called "biochemical environmental material" tiankeng comes from this principle. In these fields, there are multiple excellent research teams working hard in almost every subdivided field, and there are almost no directions left for newcomers to get ahead; and although there is a lack of a large number of successors and mid-range talents, there are still many outstanding research teams working hard. To catch up with the cutting-edge level by learning cutting-edge technologies that are constantly being introduced, it takes almost all the energy and a very long time... So during this time, how do you make money?

However, synthetic humans will not have such a problem.

Any new knowledge that appears can be imported directly with one click. Their learning speed is countless times faster than that of humans. Even if their own brains are temporarily insufficient, they can use external computing devices to perform auxiliary calculations. On a smaller scale, you can directly insert a graphics card or two if one is not used; if it is not enough, you can also directly connect to a supercomputer.

This kind of thing that "increases intelligence a hundred times with one click" is already at the heaven-defying level of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow modifier for humans, but for synthetics it is a racial talent. Compared with ordinary artificial intelligence, they have human-like intelligence, creativity and aesthetic abilities, but they also have "inspiration", which is essentially spliced ​​together from countless wrong thinking fragments and should belong exclusively to humans. specialty.

But this world is also fair in a sense.

The "Nirvana" mechanism is the world's punishment for them.

The reason why this mechanism is difficult to eradicate is that it is probably not a disease or a bug... but the "ultimate limit" for intelligent creatures like humans.

In less than a year, a synthetic human can achieve a lifetime of human growth... not only can he learn all the knowledge, but his intelligence can also be improved accordingly. So could it be that the "nirvana" they have to undergo every year or so is actually "the life span has been used up"?

It may take three days or even a week for a person to read a book. It only takes three hours for a synthetic human to read a hundred books and fully understand them without an external computing center - not just "memorizing" like other machines, but actually "reading" and "reading" After learning, you will even have your own "enlightenment".

In other words, synthetic humans are essentially a new species with "memory and skills that can be completely retained and passed on to future generations", "capable of self-reproduction" and "extremely short lifespan". It is precisely because they are too much like humans, and the "personality" possessed by ordinary humans cannot sustain themselves for such a long time - they will gradually lose "interest" and eventually fall into the endless philosophy unconsciously. in the abyss of research.

The so-called "Nirvana" actually means that the end has arrived and all the potential of this life has been exhausted.

In other words, "life has come to an end", so I "don't want to live anymore".

Therefore, a synthetic human can actually obtain "eternal life" in the material sense through infinite "nirvana". Even if it is actually the descendant of dozens or even more than a hundred generations of the first generation.

The main reason why elves can live forever is that their souls have been solidified; their personalities will no longer make significant progress and their personalities will not change. It's like a person's life has been stretched infinitely, from the original fifty years to more than a thousand years. It's the exact opposite of a synth.

Although they still retain part of their learning and creative abilities, the direction of their desires has been solidified, so they no longer have countless possibilities - the violinist elves five hundred years ago are still violinists today.

Even though the violin has long ceased to be popular in this era, he has no intention of learning the latest popular electronic instruments.

To use a painter's analogy, the elves' creative level will continue to improve...but their painting style will no longer change much. If Picasso were transformed into an elf, he would never be able to paint the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" or even "Lady in Turkish Costume" in his lifetime. Because his aesthetics will be completely solidified, his personality will no longer change, and he will no longer be able to touch new areas.

The Elf Transformation Ceremony is like a "snapshot", permanently fixed on the day they became an Elf.

But that's not the case with synthetics... They still have human-like growth and learning abilities, and even have the "curiosity" to learn things they have never been exposed to before.

According to researchers at the Synth Project, they believe this "curiosity" is so dangerous that it could potentially replace humans. In accordance with the dangerous experiment regulations, they immediately reported it; but after the report, the board of directors ordered them to continue the experiment and directly ordered to "try to strengthen this curiosity."

As a result, the areas in which these synthetics are “good” today are almost entirely different from the areas in which the researchers initially led them to contact them.

This means that these cold metal dolls, which do not even have human brains, do have "emotions" and "personal preferences."

From this point of view, it is actually understandable that the residents of Tongshen Island are afraid of synthetic humans. This is no longer a problem of the "Uncanny Valley", but closer to the workers' hostility to machines during the Luddite Movement - synthetics have not completely replaced them, one is because their number is still small, and the other is that they have not yet learned about themselves. Create a sense of hostility.

——So, what if their number grows to a certain extent and they actually become hostile to them?

Therefore, from the moment "Naraku-7" joined the rebel army, he came to try to fight for the human rights of synthetic people. On the contrary, synthetic humans will never be able to get the human rights they want on Tongshen Island.

Because Naraku-7 directly proves that no matter what the reason is, it is indeed possible for them to become enemies of humans.

If synthetic humans do not have a nirvana mechanism, then all human beings can be transformed into synthetic humans in the future, which is regarded as evolution. But since there is "Nirvana", it is impossible for everyone to be willing to let their children become synthetics... Then it will only cause war.

According to Russell's prediction, it may be a war that will destroy mankind.

So even Russell didn't dare to let synthetics continue to breed and expand the population. However, he did promise that after the synthetics wanted to give up their bodies, they could be returned to the network.

...In comparison, Happy Island seems extremely outrageous.

They may have thought about the future, or they may not have. Maybe their entertainment-oriented brain has stopped functioning and refuses to think about things that would make people "unhappy."

On the first day alone, Russell received invitations from more than 40 entertainment companies, more than 80 film and television companies, and more than 60 advertising companies.

Some want one or two synths to become idols, some want them to be child stars, some want them to accept advertising endorsements... The most outrageous thing is to ask whether these synths have "special modules" installed on them. "of.

In one day, more than twenty films were received. There are also many invitations to film TV series and variety shows. Russell was immediately annoyed by the new email notifications that kept beeping in front of him, so he simply turned off the voice prompts for new emails. The result was that he saw the mailbox pattern in the upper right corner of his field of vision. The red numbers in the upper right corner were jumping up at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a while, it reached 99+...

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Although this was indeed Russell's plan.

But these people were so enthusiastic that Russell began to hesitate.

Or maybe, they are tired of those human idol stars who are too pretentious.

The appearance of synthesized people is as exquisite as a doll, they can customize their personality and character, they know everything, and they learn very quickly. They are also very obedient and well-behaved, able to obey all orders, will not complain about working overtime, will never fall in love, and will never The house will not collapse - the most important thing is that they are now the embodiment of traffic. Everyone pays close attention to their every move.

Such high-quality resources, but only more than a hundred were brought back? !

That’s not enough!

There are far more entertainment companies in Tianen District alone than this number.

——Damn it, why don’t you hurry up and grab it!

Russell was very lucky that he hid these children. Otherwise, there may even be mercenaries coming directly to rob or steal people.

He brought these children back, not to sell them to these companies for them to exploit!

So Russell came up with another plan and planned to add another fire.

It was obviously impossible for Russell to stuff these more than a hundred people directly into his own home. Even if his home is big enough, it can't accommodate so many people.

So he took these children directly to the "Qingshui Training and Employment Guidance Center", which is Fuji Society's company.

The company originally only had the first and second floors, and the third to eighth floors were not rented out. They originally planned to convert it into staff dormitories and a shelter for homeless people and uncoded people in the downtown area. Now the part above the fourth floor can be given over to these children. The third floor can be converted into a workshop for these children.

And soon, under Russell's command, these children released two videos--posted under the personal homepage of "Ultramarine".

The first one is of a child playing the piano alone in the afternoon sunshine.

Some of the seven or eight children were reading, some were standing by the wall, and some were sitting in the corner. Starting from one person, the number gradually increased, and they impromptuly sang melodious and sacred wordless music like a hymn. It seems to be as clear as cleansing the soul and relaxing. As beautiful as a dream.

The second one is a fully equipped and extremely formal classical symphony orchestra - the violins, violas and double basses that are now extinct and have almost lost their heritage, including flutes, clarinets, French horns and trombones.

What they played was the music Russell found for them. He claimed that it was a piece of music given to him by the chairman of Tongshen Island... Just the first four notes of this piece of music made people who had just been immersed in the hymn and relaxed their spirits suddenly excited and widened their eyes in an instant. eyes.

——Russell called this piece "Symphony of Destiny".

This is a two-in-one chapter!

I gave up on finishing this volume with sixty chapters (sad)

Even if it were all two in one, I still wouldn't be able to finish it. There's still a lot left in this volume...

In addition, comments will be restored in two days! Don’t ask again every day why there are no comments, I can’t reply to you——