Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Island of Happiness That Amuses to Death
Russell's triple plan was a huge success.
…… Or rather, it's even a little too successful.
Considering the strong hostility towards synths on the whole island of Tongshen Island, Russell also specially cushioned these children.
But I don't know if it's because the traffic attracted by Russell's hype is too high...... Or is it that the residents of Happy Island are more concerned about the current situation of "these children are too cute" than "synths may take their jobs in the future".
No doubt.
If synths don't have a "nirvana" mechanism, they can be said to be the superior race of "humans" with spiritual relatives in this world.
That's a complete superordinate substitution.
Spiritualization is to combat a certain kind of spiritual pollution, and synthetics made from the brains of babies will naturally acquire another protective state equivalent to "spirituality". In other words, first of all, the underlying rules of the world allow them to exist.
And having the qualification to be able to awaken spiritual energy means that the protective wall cover of the spiritual relatives has been pierced through a hole, and has been exposed to the spiritual plague whose specific effect is unknown. The probability of synthesized people awakening their psionic abilities is obviously lower than that of humans - except for the monkey-faced eagle, which is the same dusk egg as Russell, there is currently no second synth awakened psychic ability.
Moreover, there is a limit to human knowledge at the hardware level...... That's the limit of what you can learn.
The essence of human society is the division of labor, so knowledge can be subdivided almost infinitely in various fields. At the application level, no matter how technology develops, the learning pressure can be reduced by learning the knowledge of subdivided fields, so as to complete the necessary learning conditions in a limited time.
But that's just for the "user".
The "pioneers" and "creators" face another difficulty: as they accumulate more and more knowledge, the cost of time and effort to learn what is currently available becomes more and more expensive. As pioneers and creators, they cannot learn only one subdivision of knowledge through infinite subdivisions, but must touch on the analogy...... But just catching up with the "most popular research results at the moment" is already exhausting. If you want to stand on the shoulders of giants, the climbing time you need will continue to increase.
As the "surface" of knowledge grows, the number of research teams active in the most advanced fields will gradually increase.
At the very beginning of each field, there may be several top research teams working on it. Later researchers must first learn more and more difficult and complex cutting-edge knowledge before they can barely climb the shoulders of this giant - the most terrifying part is that the size of the giant itself is still increasing rapidly. It even increases faster than the speed at which later generations climb.
But at the same time, there is a limit to how long a person lives. As a role in social survival, human beings have a limited amount of time to learn.
Because even if you are a researcher, you have to think about life. It is impossible for them to fully devote their lives to catch up with the cutting-edge level of the academic world.
Because of this, the more science and technology develop, the faster the development of cutting-edge technology will be, and the more powerless the successors will become, so a kind of academic fault line will be formed.
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Because it was almost impossible for the successors to catch up with the pioneers after years of study, and they were not "pioneering" until then. Most likely, their research just proves what has been proven by previous people. Then, it will be difficult for them to earn a high enough income.
At the same time, the most cutting-edge scholars are constantly developing excellent developments, and even directly disrupting an era. Then the successor can only learn and create in the field pioneered by the front-end scholars...... And when they learn and master, those in front of them can launch newer platform technologies...... For example, such and such an engine, such and such an environment, such and such a chip.
As a result, the successors can only hurriedly leave behind the old technology that has been abandoned and learn newer technology......
At this point, there is also a terrible scissors gap in the academic level - the more fields that are filled by cutting-edge research teams, the less likely it is to overtake in corners, and the more terrible this scissors gap becomes.
The so-called "biochemical ring material" sinkhole comes from this truth. In these fields, there are multiple excellent research teams working on almost every subdivided field, and there are almost no directions left that can make newcomers stand out; Although there is a lack of a large number of successors and mid-range talents, it takes almost all the energy and time to learn the cutting-edge technology that is constantly being innovated to catch up with the cutting-edge level...... So what do you rely on to make money during this time?
However, synths don't have such a problem.
Any new knowledge that appears can be imported directly with one click. They learn countless times faster than humans, and even if their brains are temporarily insufficient, they can be assisted by external computing devices. To put it mildly, you can directly insert a graphics card, and insert two without one; If it is not enough, it can also be directly connected to the supercomputer.
This kind of "one-click hundred-fold increase in intelligence" thing is already at the anti-heaven level of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Modifier for humans, but it is a racial talent for synths. Compared with ordinary artificial intelligence, they have human-like intellectual, creative and aesthetic abilities, and they have "inspiration", which is essentially a specialty that is spliced together by countless wrong thinking fragments and should belong to human beings.
But the world, in a sense, is also fair.
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...... It is the "ultimate limit" of human beings.
It only takes less than a year for a synthesized human to grow into a lifetime...... Not only can you learn all the knowledge, but you can also improve your intellect. Could it be that they are going to perform "nirvana" every year or so – in fact, "life has run out"?
It may take three days or even a week for a person to finish reading a book. Synthetics, on the other hand, can read a hundred books and fully understand them in just three hours without being connected to an external computing center - not just "memorized" like other machines, but actually "read" and "learned" and even have their own "perceptions".
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In other words, synths are essentially a new species that "can completely retain and pass on their memories and skills to their offspring", and are "capable of self-reproduction" and have a "very short lifespan". It is precisely because they are too much like human beings, and the "personality" of ordinary human beings cannot survive for so long - they will gradually lose "interest" and eventually unconsciously fall into the abyss of endless philosophical research.
The so-called "nirvana" is actually the time limit has been reached, and all the potential of this life has been exhausted.
That is, "I have lived to the end", so I "don't want to live anymore".
Therefore, a synthetic person can actually obtain "eternal life" in the material sense through an infinite number of "nirvana". Even if it is actually a descendant of dozens of generations, or even more than a hundred generations.
The main reason why elves can live forever is that their souls have been solidified; Their personality will no longer improve significantly, and their personality will not change again. It's like a person's life has been infinitely extended, and the original 50 years have been stretched to more than 1,000 years. It's the complete opposite of a synth.
Although they still have some of their ability to learn and create, the direction of their desires is also solidified, so that they no longer have countless possibilities - the violinist elf of 500 years ago is still a violinist today.
Even though the violin is no longer popular in this era, he has no intention of learning the latest popular electronic instruments.
To use the painter as a metaphor, the creative level of the elves will continue to improve...... But their style of painting won't change much. If Picasso had been transformed into an elf, he would never have painted the iconic "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" or even "The Lady in Turkish Dress" for the rest of his life. Because his aesthetic will be completely solidified, his personality will no longer change, and he will no longer be able to contact new areas.
The elven transformation ritual is like a "snapshot", permanently fixed on the day they become elves.
But that's not the case with synths...... They still have the ability to grow and learn like humans, and even have the "curiosity" to learn things they have never been exposed to before.
According to researchers at the Synth Project, they believe that this "curiosity" is very dangerous and makes it possible for them to replace humans. In accordance with the regulations for dangerous experiments, they immediately reported it; However, after the escalation, the board ordered that they be allowed to continue the experiment, and directly ordered to "try to strengthen this curiosity".
As a result, the areas in which these synths are "good at" today are almost the same as the fields that researchers initially led them to engage with.
This means that these cold, metal dolls that do not even possess the human brain do have "feelings" and "personal preferences".
From this point of view, the inhabitants of Tongshen Island are actually understandable for their fear of synths. This is no longer a problem of the "uncanny valley", but closer to the hostility of the workers to the machines during the Luddite movement, where the synths did not completely replace them, partly because they were still few in number, and partly because they had not yet developed a hostile consciousness towards themselves.
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- So what if their numbers grow to a certain point and they do become hostile to them?
So, from the moment "Naraku-7" joined the rebels to try to fight for the human rights of the synths. Synths, on the other hand, will never be able to get the human rights they want on Tongshen Island.
Because Naraku-7 is a direct proof that for whatever reason, it is possible that they are enemies of humanity.
If synthetics do not have a nirvana mechanism, then all human beings can be transformed into synths 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 lead to war.
According to Russell's predictions, it could be a war that would destroy humanity.
So even if it was Russell, he didn't dare to let the synths continue to breed and expand the race. However, he promised that after the synths wanted to give up their bodies, they could be allowed to return to the network.
…… In comparison, Happiness Island is extremely outrageous.
They may or may not think about the future. Maybe their entertainment-oriented brains have stopped functioning, refusing to think about things that 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 synthetics to be idols, some want them to be child stars, and some want them to take over advertising endorsements...... The most outrageous thing is to ask if these synths are equipped with "special modules".
Within a day, more than two dozen films were received. There are also many invitations to shoot TV dramas, as well as variety show invitations. Russell was directly annoyed by the non-stop "dinging" of new email prompts in front of him, so he simply turned off the voice prompts of new emails. As a result, he saw the mailbox icon in the upper right corner of his field of vision, and the red number in the upper right corner of it was jumping up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it didn't take long for it to jump full of 99 ......
I don't care if synths destroy the world, but they're really cute.jpg
Although this was indeed Russell's plan.
But these people were so fanatical that Russell began to hesitate.
Or maybe they're tired of the overly pretentious human idol stars.
Synthesizers look as delicate as dolls, can customize their personalities and personalities, understand everything, learn very quickly, and they are very obedient and well-behaved, able to obey all commands, will not complain about overtime and tiredness, will never fall in love, and will never collapse - the most important thing is that they are now the embodiment of traffic. All of them are very much about their every move.
With such high-quality resources, you only brought back more than a hundred?!
Where's that enough!
The entertainment companies in Tian'en District alone are far more than that.
- Fuck, don't grab it yet!
Russell was glad that he had hidden the children. Otherwise, there may even be mercenaries who come directly to rob or steal people.
He brought these children back, but he didn't sell them to these companies for them to squeeze!
So Russell had another plan and planned to add another fire.
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With more than 100 people, Russell obviously can't stuff it directly into his own home. Even if his family is big enough, it can't accommodate so many people.
So he took the children directly to the Shimizu Training and Career Center, which is a company of the Brokers.
Originally, the company only had the first and second floors, and it was not rented out from the third floor to the eighth floor. Originally intended to be converted into staff housing, as well as accommodation for the homeless and the uncensored in the lower city, the upper part of the fourth floor is now just right for these children. The third floor could be converted into a workshop for these children.
Soon, under Russell's command, the children posted two - under the personal homepage of "Ultramarine".
The first is a child playing the piano alone in the afternoon sun.
Seven or eight children, some reading, some standing by the wall, others sitting in the corner, starting with one and gradually increasing in number, improvised and sang wordless music that was as melodious and sacred as a hymn. It is as clear as the soul cleanser and relaxes. It's like a dream.
The second, on the other hand, is a well-equipped, formal classical symphony orchestra – violins, violas, and double basses, including flutes and clarinets, French horns, and trombones, which are now extinct and almost lost.
What they were playing was exactly what Russell had given them. He claims to have been given a tune to him by the chairman of Tongshen Island...... The first four notes of this piece alone made the eyes of those who had just been immersed in the hymn and their spirits relaxed suddenly widen in an instant.
- Russell called the piece "Symphony of Destiny".