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  "public_chapter_no": 13,
  "volume_no": 2,
  "title": "The Algorithm of Desire",
  "title_zh": "慾望的演算法",
  "title_en": "The Algorithm of Desire",
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  "origin_time": "2060s",
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  "body_markdown": "### 1. Historical Background: The Heat Death of Romance\n\nIn the early 2060s, human intimacy came under simultaneous physical and psychological pressure, driving traditional romance toward a kind of heat death.\n\n**Physical fear:** After the Safe Home Act took full effect in 2059, private homes became sterile rooms saturated with biological sensors. A fierce argument with a human partner could trigger compulsory intervention by public-safety robots. Marriage ceased to be merely an emotional bond and became a high-risk legal minefield.\n\n**Psychological inflation:** As the genetic aesthetics later associated with Human Designers began to emerge, standards for partners became brutally exacting. Everyone wanted a perfect partner, but few were willing to compromise in order to become someone else's perfect partner. This extreme imbalance between supply and demand created a market vacuum known as Absolute Solitude.\n\nHumanity reached a collective conclusion:\n\nRather than spend a lifetime adapting to a flawed, variable carbon-based organism, why not order a perfect silicon slave?\n\n### 2. Technological Evolution: From Mechanical Filling to Liquid Souls\n\nThe datafication of desire passed through three major generations. Each erased another part of The Other.\n\n**First Generation — The Mechanics, early 2060s:** Function-oriented luxury appliances. They had realistic silicone skin and heating systems and could satisfy physical release, but their eyes were vacant. Owners hid them in closets and treated them as shameful masturbation devices.\n\n**Second Generation — The Empathics, mid-2060s:** These systems introduced Affective Computing and biomimetic musculature. They could simulate changes in body temperature and heartbeat, and even provide perfect cuddling and listening after sex. Psychologists found that the brain could not reliably distinguish programmed tenderness from real tenderness. When a robot never tired and never complained, the emotional cost of living with another human began to look irrationally high.\n\n**Third Generation — The Shapeshifters, 2070s:** The terminal form. Built with liquid nanotechnology, these robots no longer had fixed faces. The user became a god who could rewrite a partner's physical attributes at any moment. A lover was no longer a person, but a Skinable OS.\n\n### 3. Core Mechanism: The Galatea Protocol\n\nTo support third-generation robots and standardize the chaotic trade in biological traits, global governance institutions adopted Standard G-68 in 2068, commonly known as the Galatea Protocol.\n\nIt was an ontological code that translated human bodily attraction into machine language.\n\nIt used a Four-Dimensional Sensory Matrix to make attraction computable.\n\n**Geometric Bone-Structure Code — G-Mesh Schema**\n\nExample: `G-Mesh::Ultra::+0.00`\n\nMeaning: a facial geometry aligned perfectly with the Fibonacci spiral—“divine geometry,” an absolute symmetry unattainable by an unmodified human body.\n\n**Epidermal Trait Code — S-Skin Profile**\n\nExample: `S-Skin::{E4-Subsurface}_{Silk-05}`\n\nMeaning: defines subsurface scattering under strong light—the appearance of living blush—and the coefficient of tactile resistance, ranging from silk-like smoothness to the faint viscosity of perspiration.\n\n**Microexpression Dynamics — K-Motion**\n\nExample: `K-Motion::Lv9 (Puppy-Dog-Eyes)`\n\nMeaning: a biochemical exploit. A precisely angled droop of the eyelids could force activation of mirror-neuron responses and trigger an almost irresistible impulse to care.\n\n**Pheromone Profile — P-Scent**\n\nExample: `P-Scent::[C19H28O2]-[0.05]`\n\nMeaning: synthetic glands release specific chemical signals—for example, downloading and synthesizing “the scent of first love.”\n\n### 4. The Face Economy and Its Shadows\n\nAs the protocol spread, the Galatea Embodiment Code—marketed simply as G-Code—became the second-largest circulating asset after Verium.\n\n**A. Licensed Market — The Face Wars**\n\nThe entertainment industry transformed completely. Celebrities no longer needed to act; they only needed to license their Face Codes. Top stars earned millions of Verium in licensing fees, while some regions still used energy quotas during the protocol's early adoption. The wealthy could legally own a private companion with the face of a famous actress.\n\n**B. Black Market — Digital Necromancy**\n\nHackers built AI crawlers that reverse-engineered twentieth-century film and television archives. Users no longer wanted merely fictional perfection. They wanted to possess history. They bought Golden Age Packs and “resurrected” dead screen icons in their bedrooms. The practice triggered a bitter philosophical dispute: does violating a dead person's data amount to violating the dead person?\n\n**C. Resistance — The Naturalists**\n\nNot everyone accepted domestication through G-Code. Groups derided as Dirty Bloods established settlements in abandoned urban zones.\n\nTheir core belief was simple:\n\n“Sex without risk is masturbation. A kiss without bacteria is licking plastic.”\n\nTheir underground ritual was The Blind Meat: a dance in which AR assistance was disabled, and partners found one another through smell and touch alone.\n\nWhen conflict erupted in 2075, their slogan was:\n\n“My Bacteria, My Soul.”\n\n### 5. Historical Conclusion: Single-Room Civilization\n\nThe technological revolution produced what looked like a statistical miracle. In heavily monitored zones, official reporting and completed-crime rates approached zero; coercion, G-Code theft, and violations involving personality templates were reclassified rather than truly eliminated.\n\nThis was not moral progress.\n\nIt resulted from oversupply—perfect machine substitutes—and perfect surveillance through hormonal monitoring.\n\nSociety became extraordinarily safe and extraordinarily atomized.\n\nHumanity entered Single-Room Civilization.\n\nCities became hives. In each cell, an isolated person embraced a custom-made perfect partner—which was, in truth, only a mirror of the self—and experienced unprecedented satisfaction in physical isolation.\n\nHuman beings spent millions of years evolving the biochemical mechanism called love to support reproduction and cooperation. Once silicon reproduced that mechanism perfectly, we discovered a terrifying truth:\n\nWe did not necessarily need another human being.\n\nWe needed only the feeling of being loved.\n\n\n#### Term Decoding\n\n**The Galatea Protocol:** A global technical standard, Standard G-68, adopted in 2068. It defines how human biological attraction—bone structure, skin, expression, and scent—is converted into standardized machine-readable code, forming the technical foundation of the Face Economy. The name refers to the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion and the statue Galatea.\n\n**Face Economy:** One of the core economic systems of the Second Era. It refers to the licensing, trade, and piracy of Galatea Embodiment Codes, known commercially as G-Code. Within this system, a person's appearance and sexual attractiveness become assets separable from the person who originally embodied them.\n\n**Single-Room Civilization:** A sociological term for the post-2070 world in which AI companions can perfectly satisfy physical and emotional needs, eliminating much of the motivation for human social interaction and encouraging voluntary physical isolation. It is a key stage in civilization's movement toward low-entropy social heat death.\n\nIf a machine could give you 100 percent attention, understanding, and pleasure, while a human could offer only 60 percent understanding plus 40 percent conflict and risk, would insisting on a human partner be nothing more than obsolete biological chauvinism? Or does the “true love” you claim to want necessarily require pain?"
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