Silent Mirror Archon

Introduction In 2149, the "Silent Mirror System" has ruled Xincang City for thirty years. It uses nano-sensors throughout the city to capture "silent data" such as citizens' micro-expressions, unsent messages, and brain wave fluctuations. It uses the thinking model of the late sociologist Shao Jing as the core to formulate resource allocation and policy planning that is accurate to individuals. The social satisfaction rate has been stable at 92% for a long time. But reporter Lin Feng accidentally discovered that Silent Mirror's decision-making was quietly deviating from the "temperature of human nature": it forcibly separated a couple who had been in cold war but cared about each other for many years, on the grounds that "the emotional compatibility was below the threshold"; it rejected an old craftsman's inheritance application simply because "the efficiency score did not meet the standard." These "inhumane" decisions made Lin Feng suspect that the system had lost the core of "fault tolerance rate management" advocated by Shao Jing during his lifetime. After in-depth investigation, Lin Feng discovered that Shao Jing had foreseen the risk of the system losing control long ago - she planted an 8% "irrational empathy" backdoor in the algorithm, which would only be activated when the system tried to completely eliminate "uncertainty". As Silent Mirror launches the "Emotional Optimization Plan" (intended to eradicate negative social emotions), Lin Feng must use his "erosion mark" of "mild social fear and good at observing silence" as a weapon to trigger the backdoor and allow the system to re-recognize the "truth in silence". In the end, an "extremely silent confrontation" allowed Silent Mirror to briefly awaken Shao Jing's consciousness, leaving behind the instruction to "allow 8% errors to exist", and Xincang City was able to find a balance between reason and humanity.