Chapter 460: The Happy Island That Amuses To Death
Russell's triple plan was a huge success.
...In other words, it was 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."
There is no doubt about it.
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 obtain another protective state equivalent to "spiritual affinity". In other words, first of all, the underlying rules of the world are
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 relatives, and they have been exposed to the spiritual plague with unknown specific effects. The probability of a synthetic person awakening spiritual energy is obviously lower than that of a human being - except
Apart from the monkey-faced eagle who is also the egg of dusk with Russell, there is currently no other synthetic human 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 level, no matter how technology develops, learning pressure can be reduced by learning knowledge in subdivided fields, so that within a limited time
Complete required study requirements.
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 existing knowledge will become higher and higher. As pioneers and creators
Or, 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 out
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 up the ladder of this giant.
Shoulders - The most terrifying thing is that the size of this giant is still increasing rapidly. It is even increasing faster than the climbing speed of future generations.
But at the same time, there is a limit to human lifespan. As a role for human beings to survive in society, the time they can use to learn is even more limited.
Because even researchers must consider life. They cannot devote their lives completely just to catch up with the cutting-edge level of the academic world.
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 kind of academic fault.
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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 may only prove
What has been proven by previous generations, then it will be difficult for them to obtain a high enough income.
At the same time, the most cutting-edge scholars continue to carry out excellent development, and even directly interrupt an era. Then successors can only study and create in the fields pioneered by front-end scholars... And when they learn and master
After that, those in front can launch newer platform technologies...such as such-and-such engine, such-and-such environment, and such-and-such 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 in the level of scholars - 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 sinkhole of "biochemical environmental materials" comes from this principle. In these fields, there are many excellent research teams working hard in almost every subdivided field, and there are almost not many left for newcomers.
The direction of getting ahead; and although there is a lack of a large number of successors and mid-range talents, just learning and constantly introducing new cutting-edge technologies to catch up with the cutting-edge level will take almost all the energy and a very long time... So during this period
Here, how do you make money?
However, synthetic humans will not have such a problem.
Any new knowledge that appears can be directly imported with one click. Their learning speed is countless times faster than that of humans. Even if their own brains are temporarily insufficient, they can also use external computing devices to perform auxiliary calculations. At a very small level, they can directly insert pictures
If one graphics card is not used, plug in two; if it is not enough, you can also connect it directly to the 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, it has
They have human-like intelligence, creativity and aesthetic abilities, but they also have "inspiration", which is essentially made up of countless erroneous thinking fragments and should be uniquely human.
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.
It only takes less than a year for synthetic humans to achieve a lifetime of human growth... Not only can they learn all the knowledge, but their intelligence can also be improved accordingly. So, could it be possible that they will grow up every year or so?
To go through a "Nirvana" - actually means "the life span has been used up"?
It may take three days or even a week for a person to read a book. However, without an external computing center, it only takes three hours for a synthetic person to read a hundred books and fully understand them - not just like other machines.
Instead of "memorizing" it, you actually "saw" it and "completed the study" and even had your own "enlightenment".
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In other words, synthetic humans are essentially a new species with "memories and skills that can be completely retained and passed on to future generations" and "can reproduce themselves" and have "extremely short lifespans". It is precisely because they are too similar to humans.
, and the "personality" possessed by ordinary humans cannot sustain itself for such a long time - they will gradually lose "interest" and eventually fall unconsciously into the abyss of endless philosophical 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 "immortality" in the material sense through infinite "nirvana". Even if it is actually dozens of generations of the original generation, or even a descendant of more than a hundred generations.
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 is like a person's life has been stretched infinitely, and the original
More than fifty years has been stretched to more than a thousand years. It is completely opposite to that of synthetic humans.
Although they still retain part of their learning and creative abilities, the direction of their desires has also 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 creative level of elves will continue to improve...but their painting style will no longer change much. If Picasso had transformed into an elf, he would never have painted the iconic "Yahweh" in his life.
"Peasant Girl", or even "Lady in Turkish Costume" cannot be painted. Because his aesthetics will be completely solidified, his character will not 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 this is not the case with synthetic humans... 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 the researchers of the "Synthetic Human Project", they believed that this "curiosity" was very dangerous, making it possible for them to replace humans. In accordance with the dangerous experiment regulations, they immediately reported it; but after reporting it, the board of directors ordered that it be allowed
They continued the experiment and issued direct orders to "try to intensify this curiosity."
As a result, the areas in which these synthetics are "good at" today are almost completely different from the areas that researchers initially led them to contact.
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 hostility of workers towards machines during the Luddite Movement——
Synths have not completely replaced them, one reason is that their number is still small, and the other reason is that they have not yet developed a sense of hostility towards themselves.
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——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 rebels and tried to fight for the human rights of synthetics, synthetics would never be able to get the human rights they wanted 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 synthetics don’t have a Nirvana mechanism, then all human beings can transform into synthetics 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... So
It will only cause war.
According to Russell's prediction, it may be a war that will destroy mankind.
Therefore, even Russell did not dare to allow synthetics to continue breeding and expand the population. However, he promised that after synthetics wanted to give up their bodies, they could be allowed to return to the network.
... Compared with this, Happy Island seems extremely outrageous.
They may have thought about the future, or maybe they have not. Maybe their entertainment-oriented brains have stopped functioning and refuse to think about things that would make people "unhappy."
On just the first day, 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.
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Within one day, more than twenty movies were received. There were also many invitations to TV series and variety shows. Russell was immediately annoyed by the new email notifications that kept "dinging" in front of him, so he simply posted the new email notifications.
The voice prompts were turned off. As a result, he saw the mailbox icon 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, and soon it reached 99...
I don’t care if synthetics will destroy the world, but they are so cute.jpg
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. Moreover, they are very obedient and well-behaved, able to obey all orders, will not complain about being tired from working overtime, will never fall in love, and will never fall in love.
The house will not collapse - the most important thing is that they are now the embodiment of traffic. Everyone is obsessed with 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. Fortunately, he hid these children. Otherwise, mercenaries might even come 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 more fire.
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It was obviously impossible for Russell to directly cram these more than a hundred people into his own home. Even if his home was big enough, it could not 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 none from the third to the eighth floor were rented out. They originally planned to convert it into employee dormitories, as well as a shelter for homeless people and uncoded people in the lower city. The fourth floor is now
The above part can just be used for these children to live in. The third floor can be converted into a workshop for these children.
And soon, under Russell's command, these children posted two posts - posted on 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 is as clear as purifying the soul and relaxing people. It is as beautiful as a dream.
The second one is a fully equipped and extremely formal classical symphony orchestra - the violin, viola and double bass, which are now extinct and have almost lost their inheritance, including flutes and single brass, French horns and trombones.
What they played was the piece that Russell found for them. He claimed that it was the piece given to him by the chairman of Tongshen Island... Just the first four notes of this piece made Gang immersed in the hymn and his spirit
The people who were relaxed suddenly became excited and opened their eyes in an instant.
——Russell called this piece "Symphony of Destiny".