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Why vampires live forever

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Re: Why vampires live forever

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> Here’s what’s genuinely interesting. That's my current AI detector smell. > He discontinued the blood exchange after data showed “no benefits.” A suspicious person might note that a vampire would say exactly this after the media got too interested. I don't think it's the media (clearly the younger generations are media friendly), it's probably pressure from the older vamps.

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds.

First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way.

Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments.

> He published this. Openly. In a book. As a priest.

This is how airport novels and LinkedIn "thought leadership" clickbait is written, so ok, fine, I'll let it pass.

Then I started to notice a lot of: "It's not X. It's Y" or "this isn't just A. It's B."

> Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis.

Before LLMs, people weren't writing this way. At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon: it's insulting to read, like the reader is a 5-year-old.

When several of these smells pile up, I close the tab immediately and try to forget about it. This one was so egregious that I had to read the whole thing and then come to the comments to rant a bit.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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As 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.

Vampires are parasites. They're only as polite as they need to be to extract resources from potential hosts. The facade of sophistication only lasts as long as it needs to

Re: Why vampires live forever

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> Stoker, a theatre manager with no medical background, somehow described the basic mechanism of heterochronic parabiosis Just to pick a nit... Stoker's story was inspired by "The Vampyre" by physician John Polidori, who doubtless knew whatever his contemporary medics knew about blood. Polidori, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley told scary stories to each other by Lake Geneva in 1816, the "year without a summer". It could…

It is worthy of note that John Polidori's model for a vampire was, in fact, Lord Byron. Lord Byron's death was a result of what the medical profession then thought that they knew about blood. Namely that blood-letting was a worthwhile medical treatment.

Bloodletting is still a worthwhile treatment for certain conditions

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/resources/having-a-therapeutic-...

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Interesting... I first went to the linked recent post What the Longevity Experts Don't Tell You. Sorry to be harsh: it was nonsense. It just lists a few weird, unscientific behaviours of John D Rockefeller and tries to draw lessons (to what end? longevity? is Rockefeller still alive?) from them despite there being no indication those behaviors even had any effect, let alone positive impact on longevity. It also doesn…

It's not nonsense, it's satire. I was laughing most of the way through both of these articles. The Rockefeller one literally points out that the guy did all this weird stuff and then his son, who didn't, outlived him.

Oh, I admit that I didn't finish the Rockefeller article, since it looked like more of the same. I can see now how it's satire.

Honestly though, I'm still not sure what the point of the vampires one is. Satire relies on the reader drawing some conclusions that aren't laid out, and I don't really see where it's trying to lead me in that respect. Is it that these billionaires are fools for following bunk research?

Re: Why vampires live forever

#156

> Here’s what’s genuinely interesting. That's my current AI detector smell. > He discontinued the blood exchange after data showed “no benefits.” A suspicious person might note that a vampire would say exactly this after the media got too interested. I don't think it's the media (clearly the younger generations are media friendly), it's probably pressure from the older vamps.

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds. First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way. Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments. > He published this. Openly. In a book. As a prie…

The author has a bunch of AI stuff in their bio, so I assume this is partially or fully generated unless otherwise disclaimed.

But hey, maybe someone can get an AI to read it.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was my thought as well. At least naively, it seems to follow that regularly donating blood might have health benefits. A typical donation is half a liter, and a person has about 5 liters of blood, so donating should in theory remove about 10% of the crap you've got circulating, right? Edit: You can donate every 2 months, so donating as often as possible would roughly halve the crud every year (0.9^6 ~= 0.53, ign…

2 months for whole blood IIRC. You can do every 2 weeks for platelets, but I am not sure if that removes the crud or not. There's other donations with varying frequency (red, plasma, etc.).

I'm assuming this is in the US? I'm curious why it's 2 months there but 3 or 4 (men/women) in the UK.

Re: Why vampires live forever

#158

> Here’s what’s genuinely interesting. That's my current AI detector smell. > He discontinued the blood exchange after data showed “no benefits.” A suspicious person might note that a vampire would say exactly this after the media got too interested. I don't think it's the media (clearly the younger generations are media friendly), it's probably pressure from the older vamps.

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds. First, the structure of this satirical post is headings and bullet points. Fine, whatever, a lot of people write this way. Then there's the exhausting litany of super short sentence fragments. > He published this. Openly. In a book. As a prie…

> it's insulting to read, like the reader is a 5-year-old.

It's not ELI5. It's ELY5.

Re: Why vampires live forever

#159

The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body. For those with suffic…

does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?

That's a gross mischaracterization because anyone who is donating blood regularly as a discipline is likely to have blood that is substantially better (rather than worse) than average. Those with poor health practices will typically simply stop donating as they will lack the discipline to continue.

Fwiw, it is the responsibility of the blood banks to do due diligence testing.

Re: Why vampires live forever

#160

The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body. For those with suffic…

Every time I do blood work I almost faint.

I don't know if this will help, but you could try drinking a WHO ORS electrolyte powder packet in room-temperature water just before donating blood. Or you could drink half before, and half after. Drink it slowly, and practice first at home.

Or if the fainting is psychological, then work your way up to psychological dominance via multiple blood tests rather than donations.

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