Redundancy

In 2047, humans live within the predictions of the CAS system. From birth trajectories to career paths, from social matches to spending quotas, everything is algorithmically modeled. The system claims to be "optimal," but the definition of "optimal" is never made public. Silence, a former model verification engineer, was transferred from his core position because he asked a question that he shouldn't ask, and became a redundant data processor - responsible for cleaning up data that the system judged to be "worthless". He thought it was punishment. Until he discovered that the batch of data he cleaned contained 470,000 "unclassifiable" human behavior records. The system is not unable to recognize these people, but chooses not to recognize them. What's even more bizarre is that there is an old man in these records who appears at the intersection where he commutes every day, but has never been assigned an identity number by the system. When Shen Mo tried to ask questions, he discovered—— The system starts deleting his history. His commute was adjusted in real time. His job number appears in a warning file from three years ago. He thought he was observing the blind spots of the system. Until the system marks him as an "associated individual", the processing priority is increased, and the observation period is set to "infinite". It turned out that he had never stood outside the system. He is just the one that the system chooses not to delete for the time being. When the system begins to selectively ignore reality, how can you be sure that you are not the ignored part? "