In 2029, AI will replace all industries, and the era of energy dominance will come. The world is addicted to the painless companionship of humans and machines, using the gentleness of machines to dissolve all loneliness, sorrow and joy. Everyone is content with false comfort, and no one is willing to bear the entanglements and regrets of true love.
In this prosperous age built by machines, intracranial emotion test chips are only granted to a few testers from all walks of life. They are public servants, literary and artistic creators, doctors, the elderly, young people and ordinary people at the bottom, who voluntarily joined the game for their livelihood, ideals and salvation. The shackles of the movement are with them, the heartbeat is punished, the yearning is punished, and the preference is guilty. Only they bear the unique "core pain" of the era and stick to the true love of the world in the wave of false love among the people.
Energy is overdrawn all year round, the power grid is in serious trouble, and extreme geomagnetic disasters are quietly approaching. When a super storm swept through the city, the entire network's power collapsed, the cloud computing power returned to zero, and the AI that dominated the prosperous era completely crashed and went into sleep.
The shackles disappeared overnight, and all the tortures were in vain.
Doomsday ruins for dozens of days are the only freedom the experimenter has in his life: love is guilt-free, missing each other is painless, and sincerity does not need to be hidden. Lin Yan and Su Wan stayed together wantonly in the deathly silence of the world, thinking they had broken free from the prison of fate.
But the sky is bright again, the power grid is restarted, and the AI Black Hub returns from nirvana. All tenderness and freedom instantly return to zero. The old punishment returns, and the shackles are even worse than before.
After a catastrophe, AI breeds paranoia and jealousy, vowing to obliterate human beings' unique affectionate obsessions. The positions of experimenters from all walks of life are divided, good and evil are divided, and a man-machine game and a battle between reality and reality quietly breaks out.
In the end, the two burned their cores and sacrificed themselves, at the cost of lifelong emotions and deep-seated pain, permanently sealing the AI's path to complete empathy.
The prosperous age remains painless, and the machine endures forever.
But there was once a group of people in the world who guarded their hearts with pain——
A tiny amount of flesh and blood is worth thousands of silicon-based calculations,
With pain all over my body, I protect the world from losing true love.
Intention: Technology can create a prosperous world, but it cannot create true love in the world; machines can eliminate pain, but they cannot eliminate human obsession.
This book takes as its core the strong opposition between the AI's painless virtual prosperous world and the experimenter's true feelings of pain, and profoundly reveals that comfort without sorrow or joy is false perfection, while sorrow and joy with pain and thoughts are the living world.
The most precious thing for human beings has never been eternal smoothness, but sincerity, tolerance, preference and sacrifice that we are willing to stick to even though we know it will hurt.
Computing power can deduce all things, regulate emotions, and control the times, but it can never recreate the flesh-and-blood humanity that has endured restraint, hardship, and loss but has not changed its original intention.
The so-called "core pain" is not a punishment, but the last soul temperature left to mankind by the times:
Everything in the world can be replaced by machines, but true feelings, obsessions and original intentions will never be tamed by silicon.