Highly recommend this read - The Waves" by Ken Liu
“The Waves” is a masterclass in braided storytelling: hard sci-fi, ancient myth, and the ache of human longing all crash together like tides on an endless shore.
The novella opens aboard the Sea Foam, where passengers face a choice: stay mortal, gene-edit for longevity, or upload into a collective AI.
Liu intercuts their transhuman odyssey with creation myths retold in Maggie’s voice—Greek (Chaos birthing Gaia), Mayan (the Hero Twins and the maize god), Australian Aboriginal (the Rainbow Serpent carving rivers)—each tale refracted through the lens of the era that retells it.
When humanity ascends to godhood, shedding time itself, the story doesn’t end in triumph—it loops. The ultimate beings, now pure pattern, feel a tug of nostalgia for beginning. They seed a new universe, deliberately forgetting their own history so that fresh myths can rise. The last line is a gut-punch: the gods choose mortality again, just to taste the salt of a story that can still surprise them.
Read it twice—once for the science, once for the myths humming underneath.
Two year ago I wrote Yugas, Pyramids and Bitcoin,
https://yakihonne.com/article/s/honeybadger@nostrplebs.com/Yugas%2C%20Pyramids%20and%20Bitcoin
Drawing from ancinet hindu mytholgy, mordern technolgoy then a ficitionall singularity
The text explores Hindu concepts of Kali Yuga (current age of decline, lasting until 428,899 CE) and Kalki Yuga, linking them to humanity's technological trajectory, including devices like Apple Vision Pro, Neuralink, synthetic embryos, and bioweapons, potentially leading to a loss of human essence and a shift from 3D to 2D existence (binary, computer-like reality without matter or present time).It draws parallels between ancient pyramids—as enduring structures with hidden secrets and proof-of-work—and Bitcoin's protocol, which embeds numerological patterns like 3, 6, and 9, suggesting Bitcoin as a "digital pyramid" for future 2D beings, possibly built by 3D ancestors.The author speculates on lost civilizations or dimensions, mind-body dualism (echoing Neuralink via the pineal gland), and the possibility of transcending to 4D through enlightenment, while embracing Bitcoin as a tool for truth in this downward path.
