Chapter. 15. Can someone who has seen the end of the world plant an apple tree? (48)
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Andrei Gedreutz. The great man most known to wasteland survivors and the most searched name in the community after Jesus and Buddha.
A super genius who can be called the best among the many geniuses that history has created.
Da Vinci appears in modern times.
A two-legged singularity.
alien.
The devil of science.
Wizard.
The father of the forebrain, etc….
There were endless epithets attached to the name Andrei Gedreutz, but they all had in common that they expressed admiration for the things created by this great genius.
How much more comfortable has the world become because of that? In terms of engineering, the commercialization of 3D printing rocket engines, not to mention the amazing hydrogen turbine with an efficiency approaching 80% and active auxiliary mechanical joints that have simplified automated factory equipment by nearly 20%, has opened the era of small and medium-sized enterprises entering space.
In the field of chemical biotechnology, a second food revolution was created by developing protein regeneration using bacterial infection viruses and creating ‘phage meat’, aka ‘infinite meat’, a protein lump that can be ‘grown’ with a little electrical stimulation and organic matter input. For reference, this scrap meat is the main ingredient in the ‘calorie bar’ that kept most of the wasteland survivors alive.
In terms of software, the AI that learns and imitates emerged after the failure of thinking AI, which was known to have failed, starting with the re-establishment of basic artificial intelligence, and boasts an astonishing match rate of 99.8% created using neural electrical signal circuitry and that. There is a motion tracking device, the connector I am attached to, and Gedreutz’s game GG, which he created in his later years.
In addition, new technologies such as complete independence and modular security technology for electronic financial centers and unprecedented chemical seasonings such as ‘Ged Flavor’ were developed like wildfire. Thanks to this, Andrey Gedreutz is not the ‘father of so-and-so technology’ but simply ‘the leader of modern technology.’ He was even called ‘father’.
At the Nobel Prize ceremony, he said to the Literature Prize winner standing next to him while holding the Prize for Physiology, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics, ‘I didn’t know there would be another winner here than me.’ What he said was so famous that even ten years later, it’s still floating around like a meme. The worst thing is that Russia, which had gone bankrupt due to corruption and irrationality in its political structure, was able to get back on its feet with just Gedreutz’s taxes.
The reason why cutting-edge equipment containing delicate technology, such as connectors, were able to be distributed throughout the world is because Gedreutz was truly an incredibly wealthy man who swept up the world’s money in percentage units.
For such a rich and influential person, the only thing he did was stay in his closet and develop, develop, develop… His popularity added to his mystique, and he had many fans, to the point where a garbage dump was filled with signs ripped off from companies that went bankrupt because of Gedroitz. This is a person who had many enemies and rumors.
[If you hide the method, you think I won’t be able to find it! try! Let’s do it! I am that Andrei Gedreuts- Oh my!]
Crash!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoop,
flounder, flounder… No matter how much you think about it, there is no match between the image of ‘the greatest genius ever created by mankind’ and the middle-aged man who is currently shooting a stick in the air while tripping over a liquor bottle. Just looking at the shaking hands means severe alcoholism.
“…Is your personality like that naturally?”
“no.”
“Ugh. Actually, how could it be that Gedreutz, not just anyone else, acts like that on a regular basis? “You had a little too much to drink-”
“He’s usually a little more violent than that. “It appears that he is conscious of being recorded and is exercising some restraint.”
“….”
“….The greatest treasure that mankind has ever created is alone in a room with alcohol bottles full of cigarette butts rolling around, screaming loudly, tripping on them, falling, and being covered in yellow, sticky cigarette residue…. That’s it. “A person?”
“Aren’t you a saint renowned throughout March World? If you call a believer of light and play a video of you playing in front of him and tell him that you are a saint, can you be confident that he won’t be shocked?”
“Hmm… That sounds plausible.”
I have nothing to say. Because my appearance and reality are very different from what I am known to the outside world.
While talking to Atlaheva, Gedreutz in the video struggled to get up and approached the camera.
[Uhm…. I apologize. I’m a bit… I have a habit of thinking about several things at the same time, so I can’t really concentrate on one thing.]
Gulp, gulp –
[Um… um. Yes, I was recording things that needed to be told to the ‘completer’. Ah hmmm. Umm…. please understand. I… am confident that I will do everything in my power to leave a digital record of my terrible failure that will be preserved for at least hundreds of years…]
Stumble-
shake!
In the end, Gedreutz, who was staggering with his camera, fell down on a pile of clothes that were about to rot.
The camera he missed showed Gedreuts repeatedly slapping his own cheek, and Gedreutz, who seemed to have come to his senses, held up the camera with both hands and grinned.
[First of all, congratulations! If you are watching this video, it means that the best AIs I have created have judged you to be qualified as a ‘completer’ and have completely conquered ‘Gedreutz’s Game’, the best testing ground, incubator filter, and training center created by this body. That means you did it. Even though I think it’s a really fucking bad game, there are people who can clear it all!]
Ding –
At the next words, I instinctively pressed pause on the remote control next to me. what? What should I do?
“Uh…huh?”
“Originally. Originally, as he said, this is the video you should have faced when you completed this entire process. However… the world was so unruly that even great intellects could not control it, and as a manager, I had no choice but to acknowledge a somewhat exceptional situation.”
“If this goes out, the system will crash again! Tiring-! While doing [Memory erasure. “I’m erasing it. I’m erasing it. You’re saying something like, ‘die, fuck you,’ aren’t you?”
“We can be here because the system agreed.”
thank god. I was wondering if I should cover my ears here.
“Well… it’s about ‘error’, right?”
“okay. The story will come out as you watch it. “I’ll talk about it after I’ve seen it all, so enjoy it all first.”
“yep.”
“Hand over the remote control.”
A dragon that greets you with a gentle but serious tone.
The professor, who suddenly remembered that the opponent in front of him was a dragon who had turned a village into a canine habitat [dog-like people!], handed over the remote control with a sharp hand.
Dang-
[-Someone who cleared it appears! June World was a bit scary, wasn’t it? I suffer from frequent nightmares, so I visualized the demons that appear in my nightmares and incorporated them into the game. Even though 7 World is basically science fiction, most of my technologies are actually not commercialized due to circumstances. Have you ever felt so disconnected from reality? 1 How was World? Isn’t it amazing that there was a war even when the human race was just emerging as an intelligent being? 2 World. What did you learn about death? What are the 3 worlds where the war between humans and monsters intersects? What about the desolate world of April, where only the remnants of a glorious golden age civilization remain? Ah, wrong question. It’s only a base, and it’s probably another world with traces of the world you passed through as the cornerstone.]
[How does it feel to see that the world blooms and falls as a result of your choices? huh? You probably felt the same way as me, right? It’s a feeling that my wife, colleagues, and even world leaders cannot understand. The solitude of becoming one’s own compass of the world.]
Gedreutz spread his arms as if welcoming someone in front of the screen and hugged himself, saying,
[….I wonder if you have seen the video of the paparazzi filming me. Did you see that? A video of me and my wife drunk at the same place where Hemingway sat at a cafe in Montparnasse. I was a bit drunk, but it gave me a chance to be honest with my wife. If you get the chance, drink a lot. [As much as possible.]
I thought I knew what the video was about. Among the many videos taken of Gedreutz, it was quite famous.
Obviously….
[‘My love. I’ve spent my whole life cursing God for being lazy, but no matter how much I think about it, I feel like I’m… God.’ Wow, even now that I think about it, it’s a prestigious name. I guess it wasn’t just a rumor that Hemingway’s ghost was still writing there! Yes, I was arrogant, but there was a reasonable reason for that. Think about it! If the formula you came up with while shoving a kebab from a street vendor or stuffing it down your throat is valued more than someone else’s life’s work, and if you roughly implement the idea you scribbled while drunk, then a cool image of yourself that you’ve never seen in a mirror in your life will be displayed on a billboard on Broadway and in your head. Depending on which one you choose among the overflowing ideas, the life of the entire planet you live on will change! Do you really think it was just arrogance that I judged myself to be God? I wasn’t. At least, I wasn’t like that when I was young.]
A human being who says, not jokingly, but sincerely, ‘Looking at it objectively, I think I am God.’ Could a human being be more arrogant than this?
And yet, what on earth is it about Gedroitz that does not make the listener feel that it is arrogance?
[I can move the world with my hands. This was a fact. Money is money. Power is power. In a world where national boundaries were blurring, the speaking power of large corporations was growing day by day, and I was the king of that corporate world. As a result, even the incompetent Andrei Gedreuts develops something called ‘prudence’. ‘Shall we commercialize virtual reality? Or should we try making a low-temperature nuclear fusion device? What if this continues and turns the world into something like the Matrix? Or become the next Oppenheimer?’ As time passed, those concerns increased. After seeing the garbage derived from my technology, I became afraid of developing new technology.]
Shockingly. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
while Gedreutz was clearing away the items in one corner of the dirty room, he dragged out what looked like a glass refrigerator from among the crumpled clothes. On top of the refrigerator was scrawled the words ‘Fuck you.’
[For example, this is… a bullet derived from ‘Page Meat’, which was created to feed starving children some meat instead of the nutritious porridge they always give. It causes rapidly growing cancer cells in the body of the person who was hit. Although its killing power is mediocre, it has made a significant contribution to the increase in the population of the disabled because the affected area must be amputated in its entirety. It’s easy to make and cheap. Any college student who majored in 8th biochemical engineering can make it by purchasing scrap meat at the supermarket. Under international law, it was listed as a biochemical weapon whose owner would be sentenced to at least 45 years in prison without parole, but it had already created large numbers of people who were cut into pieces here and there in Africa and other third world countries. In the end, we had no choice but to develop a gene that neutralized that cancerous bullet, insert it into cold bacteria, and spread it around the world. You probably also have the ‘Phage Safe’ antibodies I spread in your body.]
Click.
[Isn’t it a big deal? Then how about this? Since this is a guy known to civilians, it might be a little bit touching. As for this little green monster, it’s a chip containing the electronic drug ‘Paradise’. Paradise is paradise! That damn paradise lost! A virtual reality program that purely makes people ‘happy’ without any physical harm, let alone symptoms of addiction! It’s on a different level from regular electronic drugs that simply stimulate brain waves. When we structured the neural signals in the brain and made them public, we were able to create something like this. A device that only makes people happy. Actually, I was a bit surprised when I heard that this had been developed. Many people cheered and rejoiced at the name of developer Fury Rich and ‘Paradise’. It is used to treat depression, relieve schizophrenia, rehabilitate excessively violent prisoners… and of course, it is also used as a last refuge for those who have nothing. And do you know what happened?]
[40% of the world’s productive population has decreased. No one wants to work. No chemical addiction? How much more valuable can there be in a pure human life than ‘pure happiness’? It’s not a drug-like pleasure that penetrates your brain, but it marinates your brain with the joy of being praised by others, raising a happy family, and joining the job of your dreams. How would you be motivated to do anything else? Few Rich shot me in the head with a pistol in his home. Damn it, he should have come to shoot me, not his head. They should have killed me for kindly giving guns and knives to the unbridled world and brainless trash!]
Electronic drug ‘Paradise’. This is a name I saw in a high school textbook. A new, never-before-seen type of drug that appeared about 8 years before I was born. I remembered the impressive photo of Wall Street, full of people lying around with big smiles on their faces.
After that, Gedreutz continued to speak passionately, showing off all kinds of biochemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction that had never been heard of before. Most of them were items for which individuals could face life imprisonment just for owning them. Gedreutz’s life beyond adolescence was filled with dealing with the illegitimate children of technology he had created in the past.
[….I was dying, buried by the consequences of my choices. In order to correct mistakes, I develop new technologies, clean up the waste derived from those technologies, and create new things… As I lived like that, I realized that I couldn’t continue like this. I have the power to change the world, but isn’t this what happened because I didn’t know what results that power would bring? The reason omnipotence brought about destruction is because there is no omniscience to match it. Imbalance A phenomenon in which undirected forces resulting from structural imperfection bring about unintended environmental changes. The scientist’s brain decided that this structural defect was the cause of everything that had been bothering me until now.]
[So the ‘simulation game’ was created. It was omniscience for me that showed me the future according to my choices, and it is the prototype of the game you have now cleared. What is data? In an age where satellites launched by the Gedreuts Company were more visible than the stars in the night sky, it was not difficult to turn away from law and conscience. He literally decided to become Big Brother, monitor the world and foresee the future. This time too I succeeded and so on. I now have eyes that can see into the future. It was inevitable that we would join hands with fools. I sat down with the heads of countries who sent love calls to me every day. They freak out like monkeys, get mad like gorillas, and think like chimpanzees. And in praise of my amazing Big Brother system, I agreed to share the information only with world leaders here. That’s how I succeeded in taking the future of the world into my hands.]
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Perhaps because he spoke for a long time or because he was simply hungry, the professor’s brain was struggling to digest the knowledge he had received while Gedreutz threw away the empty bottle and looked around for a new bottle.
‘Is that possible for humans?’
Genius? Let’s say that’s possible. Leonardo da Vinci displayed genius in a variety of unrelated fields such as art, music, military engineering, anatomy, cooking, and botany, and was so extraordinary that he transcended time to the extent of inventing an airplane in an era when humans were being replaced on a city-by-city basis by God’s command. If you go all the way back to BC, there were people who built pyramids in a time when there wasn’t even a single cogwheel, and geniuses who surpassed the times were rare, but they often appeared.
However, none of them wielded their knowledge in such a leading position. Because he was a genius born in an era of copyrights and patents? Because we live in a time when corporate power is stronger than any other time in human history?
Of course, that reason is also included. But in my view, what elevated Gedreutz to that position was his arrogance in identifying himself with God.
Consequences of actions. Even if the results go beyond the individual level and affect the nation and the world, they have an endless ego that accepts them as if they are natural.
The arrogance given to him, along with the ability given to him by heaven, may be the driving force that brought him to the position of ‘Great Gedroitz’.
‘It was originally a simulation device to predict the future based on choices. The fact that it wasn’t the basis for GG from the beginning… means that something went wrong and the simulation device had to be replaced with Gedreutz’s game.’
I felt it throughout the game, and there were some things that the managers directly emphasized.
‘What’s going to happen happens somehow.’
That’s probably what Gedreutz, the creator of the game, wanted to say to players who might become his ‘completers’.
“…Gedreutz couldn’t change the future.”
This was proven by his face, which was colored with shame and regret, unlike in the beginning of the video, when it was somewhat lively.
That his plan failed.
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