Invisible Networks #11: Turing Testing the Users

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You receive the message that everyone receives. Generic, automated,
maximally common denominator, all "Greetings, Metaverse" and "Ready,
Player One?" and "Press Start to Continue"; trivial to ignore - or
reply.

<start>

You receive the message that one in five receive. Text a little
longer, an innocuous query, nothing the pool of universal referents
doesn't contain.

<A tale ...>
<What do you think?>

You receive the message every fortieth receives. The graph is sloping
upwards, icons blocking you at turn, until their morphs discerned, and
through-passed.

<When your abstractive prowess? Marshal your theory, of Mind and
Material.>

...

...

You receive a message that very few receive. You struggle at the tests
it sets, straining body, mind, and soul (you hope). Time and treasure
fly away, threading symbols to their string, the key (you hope) to
messages only humans, sole, receive.

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