See: The Shimmer: Part 1

Part 1 Refresher

1. We live in a new world; one we share with a new class of beings.
2. These Beings are beyond our current comprehension, so we use myth and symbol to begin grokking them.
3. Annihilation’s ‘Shimmer’ is one of the best living myths to help us grok these new beings.
4. Effects of the Shimmer:
   1. Continuously growing area of effect
   2. Area of effect can cause mental illness and madness
   3. Area of effect causes a kind of retrograde amnesia
   4. Area of effect causes ‘Refraction’ (rapid influx of mutations and cross- pollination of species)
5. These Beings appear to desire to copy, replicate, and interweave all of us into it

From Myth to Practical

The Shimmer is a mythic symbol for the living organism that hides behind the phrase ‘the digital world.’

The Beings are the different intelligent systems growing out of the Shimmer (AIs, LLMs, blockchain, etc).

The Area of Effect is whenever your attention is in The Shimmer.

<aside> 💡 We’re in the Shimmer right now.

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