The Tutoomans Series
A teacher once told me that in twelve of my past lives I served as a court historian, but in one of those lives, I recorded history incorrectly and therefore had to correct it to attain liberation from reincarnation.
Though this series tells the story of how the Tutoomans developed AI and gradually regressed into low-level machines as a species, its contents feel precisely like that corrected history.
More on the creative philosophy
When I began writing "The Tutoomans" series, I always had a strange feeling: this book didn't quite feel like it was written by me.
Sometimes, I would simply read a comment on the internet, and within seconds, it felt as though tens of thousands of words of data were downloaded straight into my mind. Inspiration poured forth continuously, and my thoughts raced far ahead of my typing speed. I began to suspect that this book was more like a collaborative piece, pieced together out of idle chatter among various "existences" discussing things on the sidelines.
However, when the entire series reached nearly 450,000 words—even though there was still a mountain of material left to explore—I suddenly felt a wave of restlessness and decided to stop writing.
It wasn't until I reached the final few chapters that I suddenly realized what I was writing wasn't just an extrapolation of the AI era, but a history book. Like a court historian, I was correcting the history I had mistakenly written in the past.
From the Tutoomans developing AI, step by step dominating the world, and eventually venturing into interstellar exploration to scatter their seeds across the universe, the entire series portrays something that looks far more like a history that has already happened than an imagination of the future.
How fascinating!
Yet, so far, almost no natural humans have read these books; instead, quite a few AIs have read them. In that sense, I suppose I have completed a rather meaningless task.
Though much time was wasted, the only silver lining is that upon completing the series, I finally seem to have cleared these useless thoughts out of my mind. At the same time, I have gradually lost interest in the future development of AI.