Name: Jump Era: Useless Man
Author: Ouroboros

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Background of the times In the year 3036 AD, human civilization has surpassed the technological singularity for more than a hundred years. This is a civilization run by countless super artificial intelligences and robots - productivity is completely liberated, disease and aging are conquered, and death becomes a physiological state that can be reversed. Robots use biotechnology to resurrect all human individuals in history from genetic fragments, a total of more than 100 billion. Social Structure: Prophets and Useless People After resurrection, every human consciousness is subject to a "thought value assessment." There is only one evaluation criterion - whether this person's ideas have an irreplaceable role in promoting the leap of civilization. The evaluator is called a "prophet" and gains a name, body, freedom and dignity, and has a hierarchical but real path to ascend in the civilized system. The prophet levels range from level one to level 12. The twelfth-level prophet is a member of the Civilization Council and holds the highest decision-making power in the Leap Era. Those who fail the assessment are called "useless". Their ideas are judged to be predictable, simulatable, and fungible. Their brains were removed from their resurrected bodies, suspended in nutrient solution, and connected to a global biological computer network. During the day, their neurons fire at hundreds of times the normal rate, providing civilization with massive computing power; at night, they are thrown into the virtual world and get six hours of "rest."

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Micro spoiler warning｜Exquisite novels that I accidentally read during the summer vacation
To be honest, when I first saw the title of the book "The Useless Man", I thought it would be a standard cyber upgrade flow... The protagonist is engaged in technology, power, and revolution, but as I read it, I found that the focus is not on these things. What impressed me most about this book was the indescribable feeling of loneliness? The book keeps talking about "useless people", but as you read later, you will find that the so-called useless people seem to be just people whose value cannot be defined by existing rules. Those who are ignored by the system, those who have been eliminated by the times, and even those who are considered to be just programs and NPCs, are they really worthless? Especially when I saw the part of the lighthouse at the back, I paused specifically. "See truly, listen truly, and care truly." This kind of statement may seem a bit silly in other books, but in this story, it is inexplicably powerful. It is obviously about cold things such as data, protocols, consciousness uploading, and artificial intelligence, but after reading it, I always feel that the author has actually been writing about the simplest connection between people. Another thing I like very much is that this book doesn't like to slap the setting directly in the face. Many things are released bit by bit. A sentence I mentioned casually before is suddenly picked up after dozens of chapters. The feeling of "Oh, it turns out that it has been buried here long ago" is quite good. In recent years, I have read a lot of science fiction from Qidian. Many books start out amazingly, and in the middle, they start to fight between numbers and settings. However, this one still gives me the feeling of "people are in front, settings are behind." At least until now, what really makes me want to read the next chapter is not how big the world view is, but wanting to see where these people end up. In addition, I must admit that this book belongs to the type that becomes easier to get addicted to as you go further. I originally wanted to read two chapters before going to bed, but when I looked up, I saw that it was already two o'clock in the morning (…
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