The Mechanic - Chapter 23

[Chapter 23 The Fruit of Wisdom (1)]

The hot sun scorched the rust-smelling metal, and in the open space surrounded by high-rise buildings stacked with waste, Adam lowered his center of gravity and looked intently at the tall and dangerous man in front of him. He lowered his head slightly, his eyes sharp and calm, like a cheetah waiting for an opportunity. Fine beads of sweat spread over his slightly tanned skin and slid down the metal of his right arm, soaking the vest on his body.

On the other hand, Diego did not dare to relax at all. The AI is progressing so fast that it makes him even nervous. He has been practicing boxing since he was five years old, and has won the crown of the champion of Paradise Lost in so many worlds. Even if he is addicted to alcohol and neglected training for the past two years, he asks himself that there are not many men in Paradise Lost who can beat him without weapons. .

But this robot, in just a week, can already figure out his punches and avoid more than half of his attacks.

This made him a little… flustered. Although he was killed, he did not want to admit it.

“What are you he | Grandpa waiting for? Waiting for your mechanic nanny to feed you?!” Diego provocatively.

Adam, however, remained motionless, watching his movements. By irritating and irritating the opponent, you can greatly increase the chance of the opponent making a mistake.

Just when he saw the flaw in Diego’s left side and was about to rush to attack, he suddenly heard Zhang Xun calling him, “Adam.”

Adam immediately stopped his steps and turned around without hesitation. Walk.

“Hey! Why are you going?!” Diego couldn’t believe it. He pretended to show his flaws just now, and just wanted to teach this robot who thought he was smarter than him, but his opponent left him and left? !

“My mechanic is calling me.” Adam replied naturally.

“Don’t be distracted during practice! You can only leave after the game.” Diego said angrily, “You are showing great disrespect to your opponent!”

Adam thought for a while, and then said clearly, “Oh, I’m sorry.” He continued to run to Zhang Xun in the pergola without looking back.

Diego rolled his eyes, wiped the sweat on his forehead, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and put it in his mouth, “Grandpa’s, like a dog.”

“Axun, what do you call me?”

Zhang Xun Looking up, he saw Adam who was sweating profusely as if he had fallen into the water and swam in a circle. He reached out and handed him a towel with some disgust. Adam took the towel and quickly wiped the sweat off his face and head.

As he moved, Zhang Xun said, “Next week the safety consultant will bring someone to give you a psychological assessment.”

Adam said, “Does the psychological assessment refer to personality and mental tests?”

“Yes, no.” Zhang Xun After a pause, “You should be familiar with empathy simulators, right? As far as I know, this kind of thing has been widely used in psychotherapy and the judicial system.”

Adam snorted, not very surprised. The so-called empathy simulator is a product that has only begun to appear in the past five decades. By briefly stimulating several brain regions, including the hippocampus, the subject loses the memory of the test, and then passes the test. Injecting a carefully measured drug put the subject into a half-dream state, hypnotizing the subject with an empathy simulator, and observing the subject by thinking that he was in a completely different situation. the subjects’ reactions and actions.

Some are like a very real dream.

Often the results of these simulators are jaw-dropping, with many people doing things they thought they would never do under certain environmental conditions. Some people shock strangers with lethal electric current under the instigation of virtual “superior”, some people leave their loved ones to escape without hesitation when their lives are in danger, and some animal protectors who can’t bear to eat animal meat are being tortured When they were trapped on a deserted island, they first began to eat human flesh. Some activists who were passionate about charitable causes and fighting for human rights became smugglers after gaining political power…

At present, the judicial systems of many countries in the ordinary world adhere to the principle of human innocence: that is, if a person commits a crime that more than 60% of people would do under similar circumstances, then this kind of behavior cannot be considered a crime. Guilty, that’s just human nature. And human nature should not be punished. Therefore, in the judicial system, when a criminal commits a crime under certain pressure, such as intentionally killing others in order to save his own life, or being forced to become an accomplice in a robbery due to group or community pressure, etc. Empathy simulators can be requested. The court will randomly select ten citizens to enter the simulator anonymously. As long as six people make the same choice as the defendant, the defendant can be acquitted.

“It turns out that Paradise Lost also has an empathy simulator,” Adam said. “Do your courts follow the principle of human innocence?”

“No…they use that thing to test who is a loyal warrior, who might be a spies and traitors… …” Zhang Xun’s tone was filled with disgust, as if he hated that kind of thing very much.

“You don’t like empathy simulators?” Adam asked.

Zhang Xun thought for a moment and replied, “It’s not that I don’t like it. In some ways, it helps humans understand themselves and others… But I don’t like people’s abuse of it. Humans are not perfect, so We only use morality and law to control our behavior, so we want to believe that we are good people. This machine is like ripping off that layer of fig leaf that is already fragile and showing people the ugliest side of themselves. This It’s not good for humans at all, I know a lot of people who have entered that machine and feel very guilty for things they never really did, and even suffered from depression and anxiety…and…” Zhang Xun paused and continued, “I sometimes worry that we are in an empathy simulator right now, and you are just an illusion they planted into my brain…”

“Brain in a bottle conjecture. One in a bottle A brain perfused with all kinds of false information has no way of knowing that it’s in a bottle.” Adam nodded conclusively, “There’s really no way to prove it.”

“What are you two mumbling about?” He came over and took out a bottle of cold beer from the incubator, and muttered as he pulled it open, “Every time I listen to the two of you talking, it’s like listening to aliens talking, and I don’t understand shit.”

Both decided to ignore him at the same time.

Adam continued to ask Zhang Xun, “Will you also be connected to the simulator?”

“No, my authority level is relatively high, they will only connect me to a polygraph and perform general psychological tests on me.” Zhang Xun paused, reciting the information that James helped him to inquire from his father quietly, “As for you, according to the test process report they submitted to the Command and the Roundtable, they will keep all of your human beings this month. memory, but temporarily erase the memory of taking the test and two days ahead, replace it with three days of mock memory, and test your choices and reactions. I guess, they want to know if you’re going to run away when you get the chance, or Is it to pass the information of Paradise Lost to Eden, or use some other means to destroy Paradise Lost.”

Adam nodded, “I understand.”

“In this machine, you can’t lie. So…” Zhang Xun stared at Adam, “Do you think you can pass?”

Adam shrugged, “I guess I have a pass rate of about 63%.”

“…How did you come up with such a specific number?” Diego complained beside him.

“I’m currently researching how to quantify and calculate my various emotional indicators, combined with my rational thinking…”

“Stop, stop, I don’t want to know…” Diego raised his hand as if he was defeated, and walked away quickly The pergola went back to his own house to watch a video.

Zhang Xun watched him leave, his face still gloomy, “Is it only sixty-three…”

“More than 50%, it’s already a great chance.” Adam walked in front of him, squatted down and looked up at his machine Teacher, “If I don’t pass, they will neutralize me?”

“Not necessarily, you are too precious after all. Maybe they will brainwash you in a harsher way and turn you into a real slave. But one thing is for sure , I can’t be your mechanic anymore. They’ll find another mechanic to manage you.”

“If that’s the case, my chance of passing would increase to eighty-three percent.” Adam finished, grinning, his teeth white and straight.

Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows, ”

Where did the 20 percent come from?” “I would rather be neutralized than have someone other than you as my mechanic.” Adam said seriously, “For the sake of You, I will work harder to pass the test.”

Zhang Xun’s heart skipped a beat.

No… Adam’s meaning should be that if it was another mechanic, maybe he would be brutally tortured, so he would rather die than want. It must not be all because of his strong emotional dependence on Zhang Xun… As

Zhang Xun tried to convince himself rationally, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch upwards.

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That night, Zhang Xun did not return to his own room, just like the past two weeks, but fell asleep in the observation room next to Adam’s room. He lay on the old sofa, eyes open in the dark, looking at the intricate twists and turns of metal pipes that rumbled sometimes overhead. Some are like intestines, some are like earthworms.

Sometimes he has the illusion that Lab is a giant toad, and he lives in the guts of the toad.

The damage caused by the bombing to the Lab has been repaired in half. At the current stage of tight budget, he and Adam found a lot of recyclable materials in the garbage disposal plant in the past two weeks, which solved the urgent need. But there are still a lot of places that need to be repaired urgently, and there are a lot of projects waiting for him to arrange. But he can’t think about all of these, all his energy is on Adam, and all his thoughts are on the psychological evaluation of the day after tomorrow.

Did he succeed in turning Adam into a man? Does Adam really have human feelings? Do so-called emotion simulators work for an AI brain? If it doesn’t work, is it a good thing or a bad thing?

But at this moment, a thumping sound came from behind the one-way mirror, which had been closed for most of the past two weeks. The first time he thought he heard it wrong, until the second wave of beating came, he sat up frowning, grabbed the remote control on the coffee table and pressed a button.

The original black single-sided mirror lights up and becomes a “window”. And Adam was lying on the window, the mechanical right hand was ding ding dong dong, and the other left hand was waving in the air.

Adam is calling him?

Zhang Xun looked at his watch, two in the middle of the night… what are

you doing?

Zhang Xun sighed, lifted the blanket and opened the side door connecting the two rooms, “Adam, you don’t sleep in the middle of the night…”

“Axun, I want to give you a gift.” Adam said, and gave birth to one The rusty old metal cigarette case was handed to Zhang Xun. The cigarette box looked like it was picked up from a garbage disposal plant.

Zhang Xun took it suspiciously, watching Adam smile brightly, looking forward, and even more and more not knowing what medicine he bought in the gourd. Wake him up at two in the middle of the night just to give him a present?

Wait till tomorrow morning The necklace was apparently re-polished and almost like new. He opened the small box of the necklace pendant and found that there was an old-fashioned chip that was eliminated eighty years ago.

“I found this from a garbage disposal plant, and it’s in pretty good condition. But due to limited memory space, I couldn’t enter all the system data I designed. I just picked some new technologies that you might be interested in , such as uploading and merging of consciousness, nanorobot design drawings, artificial intelligence language decoding… But I don’t have time to give you all the details, I can only give you some key information and thinking patterns.”

Zhang Xun found it difficult to absorb him . Everything I saw in front of me, “You gave me your technology… to me?”

Adam nodded, “Yes. I think you’ll like it. Some of these technologies are very core and should be difficult to obtain with hunting groups. Sorry, but I didn’t give you anything about weapon development or that might threaten the normal world. Biochemical research materials, I don’t think you are interested in those.”

Zhang Xun’s mind was turned upside down, and his throat was astringent. His voice was a little hoarse, “You…why are you giving me this now?” And it was still in a necklace.

He remembered what Adam had told him: the story of medieval lovers exchanging hair pendants.

“If you go into an emotional simulator, they’ll erase the memory from that day forward three days. That is, I won’t remember anything that starts tomorrow. But I hope I remember that I gave you gifts, so I I used the mini machine we picked up at the garbage disposal plant to complete all the input overnight.” Adam looked at him faintly, wondering if it was because of the dim light, but his eyes were very tender and affectionate, “If I fail the test, at least You can have some souvenirs.”

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angels who threw mines~~: flyingfish3721, Xia Ran Xia Ran 1;

thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution~~: 16 bottles of nuanuan;

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