That quip(?) on Attia is darrrrrrrk. It's saying you must exchange your soul.
Why vampires live forever
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#142As a member of a prominent Transylvanian family, I am appalled, and profoundly offended, by the idea of someone even as much as suspecting Peter Thiel could be a vampire. He might be an evil bloodsucking parasite, but he lacks the sophistication mortals have come to associate with vampires over the centuries. It's shocking, really, that some people might confuse him with one.
Oh, it applies to sama perfectly, except for the sophisticated bit, or empathy. Are all vampires sociopaths or just some of them?
> Are all vampires sociopaths or just some of them?
That’s anti-vampire propaganda. Sociopaths have well above average representation among billionaires, not vampires.
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#143This predates 2005. A 1991 Simpsons episode depicts the rejuvenation powers of young blood.
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#144Where do vampires put their money?
A: Biomedical startups!
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#145The novels Blindsight & Echopraxis by Peter Watts have a nice vampire sub-plot... basically his world has vampires which have been revived from the fossil record. They are posited to have gone extinct in recent times, but before then were human's key predator, keeping our populations strongly in check and then having to hibernate for decades to allow the breeding to provide new meat! He's super interested in brain di…
I have not read Echopraxis yet, but I thoroughly enjoyed Blindsight. Some very thought-provoking concepts in that book. The idea that vampires needed to take “anti-Euclideans” and the way the ship was constructed to avoid generating right angles were some great details.
Echopraxia is great. I never understood those who thought it was disappointing. Blindsight is wonderful, but Echopraxia is possibly the more inventive one. It certainly pulls the narrative in a different direction.
I also really, really recommend The Freeze-Frame Revolution. It's about the crew on an starship trying to stop the rogue (sort of) AI that runs everything, the twist being that the crew is constantly under surveillance and must periodically hibernate in shifts for months or years at a time. It's a novella plus a handful of short stories set before and after the novel (all available for free on Peter Watts' website). Be warned, it's one bleak, dark universe.
Also, don't miss out on "The Colonel" (also on his website), a standalone short story that also happens to be a direct sequel to Blindsight.
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#146> The Suspects Peter Thiel Has anyone tried garlic on him? > Vampires don’t drink blood because young blood contains an elixir. They drink blood because their own blood accumulates factors that accelerate aging, and they need to periodically dilute it. I don't think this makes sense. Our bodies do not use the same blood forever.
Who knew we could coexist with vampires if we give each some kind of dialysis machine? Imagine the kind of cultural works someone with centuries of experience could create. Imagine a vampire historian!
If they haven't recorded it in some way then it doesn't matter. And if they have, then it's what a human historian could do too.
Can you recall well what you did ten years ago to the day? How much is a vampire is going to accurately recall from a hundred years ago?
At best, the vampire has bragging rights like "I hung out with Gandhi."
We'd need some evidence the vampire has super-recall AND is somehow trustworthy enough to not change the story depending on motivations of the day.
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#147chatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity.
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#148chatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity
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#149Love this concrete interpretation. The symbolic one is maybe more interesting: Vampires: - Consume the life force of the living to sustain themselves - Are totally isolated and perverted from any kind of human community - Have no family, no community ties - Unable to feel love, warmth, connection with any human - Must avoid spending time in the virtuous natural world (daylight, sunlight) and must instead be cordoned…
Yeah. Vampires were conceived as analogies to nobility, and the billionaire class is our new nobility.
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#150As a member of a prominent Transylvanian family, I am appalled, and profoundly offended, by the idea of someone even as much as suspecting Peter Thiel could be a vampire. He might be an evil bloodsucking parasite, but he lacks the sophistication mortals have come to associate with vampires over the centuries. It's shocking, really, that some people might confuse him with one.
He’s an imposter, using blood infusions from young victims of his digital entrapments.