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Why vampires live forever
- yashasolutions 8mo agovery entertaining writing style
- themarbz 8mo agoNow this is the kind of content I come to Hacker News for.
- uwagar 8mo agoexactly
- insin 8mo ago> Appears to not age but also to never have been young /me snorts
- larsiusprime 8mo agoHonestly, the surest sign of the existence of vampires to me would be a class of investors with extremely anomalous discount rates, suggesting that they are operating on inhumanly long time horizons, combined with a particular interest in real estate, as first documented in the field's seminal publication (Stoker, 1897).
- snvzz 8mo agoIf interested in rejuvenation, I would suggest investigating LEVF's Robust Mouse Rejuvenation. RMR1 done and shows promise, RMR2 started recently.
- david927 8mo agoThis is a fun story from the early 18th century if you haven't read about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain
- david927 8mo agoAnd I don't want to add fuel to a strange fire, but in 1764 when Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a letter to Beaumont regarding the absurdity of belief despite evidence, he used this as an example: "If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete."
- dsr_ 8mo ago“Don’t be silly, Bob,” said Mo. “Everybody knows vampires don’t exist.” -- first line of The Rhesus Chart, by cstross
- kmeisthax 8mo agoWasn't this the guy going around building animate porcelain dolls in suspiciously modern gothic-lolita dresses?
- soiltype 8mo agoInteresting... 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't bring up things "the longevity experts don't tell you," it's just summaries of topics in a single biography. Still I gave this article a shot. I don't understand what it's doing. Like, one of the points about Thiel is that he destroyed Gawker to cover up his vampirism. He actually destroyed Gawker to cover up his relationship to Epstein, the pedophile and saboteur of US social/economic integrity. Why put a silly spin on that? I guess the entire thing is just a little joke... just doesn't feel like it belongs on the HN front page. I had higher expectations.
- JimmyBuckets 8mo agoAlso weird it didn't mention Peter Attia's connection to Epstein outright. It did this weird tongue-in-cheek thing for a few paragraphs referencing Epstein only in the foot notes. I still can't tell whether what I read was actually praising these guys or extremely subtly sardonic.
- dgacmu 8mo agoIt'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.
- soiltype 8mo agoOh, 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?
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- crmd 8mo agoI hope the old vampire Dons give some fashion advice to the new guys, e.g. “A vampire doesn’t wear Arc’teryx“.
- achenet 8mo agoYes, if there's one thing I reproach Mark Zuckerberg, it's not that his company will occasionally enable genocides [0], but his crimes against fashion and good taste. [0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
- eviks 8mo agoHope the author has some garlic silverware lying around after such a revealing article
- machielrey 8mo agoI realize now that I might be in trouble. Thanks everyone
- amarant 8mo agoCute. But I saw through your thin veil Mr Tepes. The irony of bragging about your opsec and revealing your true identity for leverage in the same sentence is considerable. Anyway, I hope your son, Adrian, is doing ok. I fondly remember hunting your horrors of the night with him -T.B.
- rbanffy 8mo agoI am deeply offended by someone associating Thiel with vampires. That idea is completely absurd. Vampires are famous for being handsome, interesting, elegant, well educated, and having impeccable taste for fashion. Thiel has none of these traits.
- vintermann 8mo agoVampires are famously metaphors for aristocrats. Zombies are metaphors for the "common horde". I wonder if there's a monster metaphor for the "noveau riche", people with all the money and none of the style. Can't think of one.
- rbanffy 8mo agoI'd bet on some sort of dragon teenager. Dragons are hoarders and measure success by how much gold they are sitting on. They are insecure, obsessed with being perceived as powerful, and sometimes like to pretend to be aristocracy, without possessing the heritage. Often crass and tacky, they also burn what they can't own. Old dragons probably would be wiser, and more aware of their character failings.
- OutOfHere 8mo agoThe 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 sufficient spare money, instead of donating blood, just get various blood tests every other week, additively comparable to a donation if the tests are substantial. Granted, this is antithetical to being a vampire, but you will still have to make up for it by supplementing sufficient healthy nutrients, e.g. electrolytes, ferric pyrophosphate, protein, etc. to allow your body to quickly restore the lost blood. As a disclaimer, do not ever donate blood if you use narcotics, disallowed drugs, injectable drugs, or have unsafe intimate practices, or might have chagas or TB or even long Covid.
- kadushka 8mo agoIs there any evidence?
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- fyrabanks 8mo agodoes this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?
- overfeed 8mo ago> does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood... 2 questions: is there any other kind? If there were, ate people requiring transfusion in a position to make demands to the donors (not vendors)
- munk-a 8mo agoBad blood is better than no blood! Also, I'm not certain how much they treat blood, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a purification system sort of similar to Dialysis where you rely on an external machine for removing impurities.
- jamilton 8mo ago>The public begins to associate blood transfusion with eccentric billionaires rather than with undead predators. This is a critical narrative shift. Not much of a shift...
- kps 8mo agoYou misunderstand. Coming out as vampires is meant to improve their reputation.
- _joel 8mo agoWhy am I reading this in Freddie Mercury's signing voice?
- layer8 8mo agoIn that version, there can be only one.
- block_dagger 8mo agoAlthough better known for his singing voice, it's true that the voice he used when cryptographically signing private messages was also impressive.
- jagged-chisel 8mo agoCompletely OT: In the link “what the longevity experts don’t tell you”[1] I found this: “As a devout Baptist, he couldn’t use playing cards…” And I’m wondering if I missed something in my Baptist upbringing. I have long since removed myself from any semblance of the Church and manage my own relationship with faith and any related higher beings, so it’s more a curiosity than pertinent. 1 - https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/ https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
- jvalencia 8mo agoAs a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up something for the sake of others (gambling addictions within the church, Rom 4:21 - or do anything that causes your brother to stumble). The reality is that most churches recognize that they were too legalistic in the past, and so now address things like gambling more directly, and are perfectly ok with playing cards. FWIW YMMV :-)
- prometheus76 8mo agoI was under the impression that the injunction against playing cards was because of their proximity to tarot/occult practices. Mormons had the same injunction against playing cards until the 80s, when the teaching was no longer promulgated. Speaking as a former Mormon...
- jvalencia 8mo agoI think that's not wrong. Same principle, different sin... it looks like gambling, or the occult, or...
- impossiblefork 8mo agoHere in Sweden, where we also have free churches such as Baptists, Laestadians etc., the concern was definitely about gambling.
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- u1hcw9nx 8mo ago>They drink blood because their own blood accumulates factors that accelerate aging, and they need to periodically dilute it. Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis. This seems to be the emerging consensus. When you get older your metabolism creates all kinds of crap that circulates in the blood. You would like to have boosted kidneys parallel to real ones that can detect and remove all the slightly wrong proteins.
- johnisgood 8mo agoAre there any reasons for this to work on non-vampires? :D
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- delecti 8mo agoThat 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, ignoring the natural increase over time).
- johnisgood 8mo agoYeah, that is donating, now I wonder donating AND receiving (from a healthy individual). :D
- dylan604 8mo agoWhy do you think Gavin Belson had a blood bag? This has been a trope for a while. They even had blood bags in the Fury Road movie, but that was more of a continuous supply than just trying to refresh like Gavin. I don't think using movie tropes in a discussion on vampires is out of line here
- jyscao 8mo agoBig if true :P
- solidasparagus 8mo ago> 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.
- ZoomZoomZoom 8mo ago> You know what else is far-seeing? A creature that has been alive for centuries. Well, hello there!
- sgt 8mo agoYeah, that does sound pretty AI-ish / marketing-bloggy. It’s not wrong, but it has a few classic “AI vibes”. If you want, I can........oh no!!!!!! NO CARRIER
- throwaway173738 8mo agoOh my gosh I’m so sorry about that. Let me correct my earlier post and assert with certainty that this post was not at all written by an AI.
- prime_ursid 8mo agoI 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.
- stared 8mo ago> Increased sun exposure was associated with an older appearance and accelerated with age (p 0.015), as was a history of outdoor activities and lack of sunscreen use. Bahman Guyuron et al., "Factors Contributing to the Facial Aging of Identical Twins" (2009) https://gwern.net/doc/longevity/2009-guyuron.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/longevity/2009-guyuron.pdf
- cushpush 8mo agoFantastic. Several halloweens ago I wore vampire fangs and told a beautiful girl at a concert that I worked at the local blood bank. She said "yeah?" and I followed up with, "would you like to make a donation?"
- mannanj 8mo agoDid she make a donation?
- koakuma-chan 8mo agoSmooth
- koakuma-chan 8mo ago> 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.
- groby_b 8mo ago> I don't think this [ed:periodical dilution] makes sense. Our bodies do not use the same blood forever. You might want to read up on chaperone-mediated autophagy, and how that declines over time. There's a point to be made that yes, in old age we collect things in our blood that don't belong. It might not be solvable through dilution, but it's not like we get a full blood change every 5K miles either.
- smegger001 8mo agoas someone that donates plasma twice weekly I wonder what health effects of removing and filtering the blood regularly has if accumulation of byproducts is a major issue
- jaggederest 8mo agoI believe research has shown that blood and plasma donors have mild positive benefits.
- glitchc 8mo agoNot the same blood, but dead cell matter does accumulate in plasma over time. The body has active mechanisms that perform cleaning: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7392086/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7392086/
- sgt 8mo agoImagine showing up to a meeting with Thiel wearing a huge garlic and onion necklace.
- boutell 8mo agoFlawless logic! I have a spoiler-tastic fan theory about the movie Marty Supreme that is apropos here.
- stuaxo 8mo agoEarly chatgpt really did not like it when I asked if Peter Thiel was a vampire.
- mystraline 8mo agoIt got very "mad" at me. It was funniest thing all day. Thanks for the recommended chuckle.
- firefoxd 8mo agoI was hoping he would provide some insight about why they avoid the sun. From observation, thiel looks like he is getting too much sun, or at least his skin has been reengineered like Alucard. While Johnson is just cake [0]. Side note: for once, I'm enjoying a heavily AI assisted article. [0]: you'll have to find that reference on your own.
- prometheus76 8mo agoInteresting that the author didn't mention anything about stem cell injections. Those have been in vogue among the elite for decades (millennia?).
- dylan604 8mo agoHow could it be millenia? Have we been able to isolate stem cells that long, or are you suggesting feasting on placenta as suitable?
- jamilton 8mo agoThe joke is presumably ancient vampires doing it in secret to be alive for millennia.
- FarmerPotato 8mo agoYeah… and anytime the narrative switches from transfusion to blood-sucking, I object “but what about stomach acid?” Bodies break stuff down first.
- lbrito 8mo agoFun read but I stopped after detecting AI: "The young blood doesn’t add youth. It removes age." "Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis." Etc. Why is LLM so enamored with the "Its not x, its Y" idiom? Its so ridiculously overused its almost comical
- doodpants 8mo agoThe flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings. In other words, some people actually write like this.
- johnmwilkinson 8mo agoIt’s not that people don’t write like this, it’s the over-usage and general tone.
- alex_young 8mo agoIt's not that “I can detect AI” posts sound more templated than the writing they’re critiquing, it's the clankers are learning from it and adapting.
- uwagar 8mo agoits not that i cant detect your AI detection, its just that i cant watch you quietly do it.
- lbrito 8mo agoYou're absolutely right! I have a friend that has used ems all his professional life and is livid that they're now a telltale for AI. So yeah, false positives.
- lionkor 8mo agoIts not just a telltale sign. Its a fact.
- ceayo 8mo agoI'm not really sure if the author (i.e. generative language model) is being serious or being sarcastic...
- gpderetta 8mo agoTime to break the Masquerade it seems.
- amarant 8mo agoI think we're witnessing a schism within the vampire community. By the end of the article, the author is less than subtle about being Dracula, and is trying to use the respect his name no doubt commands among vampires to get the unruly youth(relatively speaking) to get their shit together. This article is a warning to Thiel and Johnson. Dracula sees you, and he does not approve of what he sees.
- mac3n 8mo agosee also Floyd Kemske, "Human Resources: A Corporate Nightmare" https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf https://archive.org/details/HumanResourcesPdf > Corporate management is the use of humans as resources. So is vampirism. >Biomethods, Inc. is a struggling biotechnology company whose venture capital group is growing tired of pumping in new blood every quarter.
- FarmerPotato 8mo agoFuture: Peter Thiel takes lead to rebrand VC as Vampire Capital…
- mlsu 8mo agoLove 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 off indoors or in darkness, they do not live as most natural things do. - Are kind of fallen/perverted; at one point, they were human, but they failed at being human (for instance: unbaptized, excommunicated, murderous, etc) and so were forced into exile often due to their own choice to live sinfully Billionaires: - cannot become a billionaire without thousands/millions of regular non-billionaires siphoning money (== time, == life force) upwards - when they become a billionaire they are forced to be distanced from their community/family of normal people; middle class people are never "regular friends" with billionaires - either their normal family/friends are 'bitten/infected' (wealth inheritance) or cut-off - often are profoundly isolated on a personal level (are they talking to me for my money or for me?) - often the direct cause of or at least complicit in the destruction of the natural world (i.e. cut off from sunlight; unnatural) - often must make unethical or immoral choices to catapult themselves to wealth/powers (fallen, sinful)
- OkayPhysicist 8mo agoYeah. Vampires were conceived as analogies to nobility, and the billionaire class is our new nobility.
- mlsu 8mo agoSame as it ever was!
- austinjp 8mo ago> 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 couldn't get more gothic. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-poet-the-physician-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-vampire/ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-poet-the-physician-...
- btilly 8mo agoIt 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.
- maleldil 8mo agoBloodletting is still a worthwhile treatment for certain conditions https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/resources/having-a-therapeutic-venesection/ https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/resources/having-a-therapeutic-...
- giraffe_lady 8mo agoSomething I've wondered for a long time: Can a vampire enter your home uninvited if they are a cop with a warrant?
- FarmerPotato 8mo agoI first read that as “cop without a warrant”. Sign of the times.
- bullebak 8mo ago"I don't know, can they?"
- sgt101 8mo agoThe 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 disorders and spins a good story about the trade offs of a terrible reaction to right angles in exchange for savant like powers of perception.
- vict7 8mo agoI 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.
- Baeocystin 8mo agoJust a heads up, don't go in to Echopraxia expecting it to feel like Blindsight. When I first read it, I was actually pretty disappointed overall, and a few of my friends had similar reactions. Over a couple of years a few re-reads, though, I've come to enjoy it perhaps even more that Blindsight, but in a completely different way. It fills out a lot of the posits opened in the first novel, without coming to specific conclusions, but it gives you a lot to think about.
- sgt101 8mo agoIt's the world builder, odd that it comes second but if it had come first then most people would have been put off! I liked that the main character was the least super empowered of any of the characters though.
- Baeocystin 8mo ago“I’ve told you before, Daniel: roach isn’t an insult. We’re the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we’re the ones with the stripped-down OS’s so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We’re the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.”
- bazillion 8mo ago"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37) More and more, you are seeing what occurred in the time of Noah become commonplace to talk about under the guise of technology. In Noah's day, there was a hybridization program to dilute the blood of man to prevent the coming of the Messiah, but Noah was "perfect in his generations", or not part of the hybrid lines branching off of humanity. And now, what is old has become new again. The article might address the topic in satire, but there is a truth that is being touched on in it that is hard to look at -- the use [devouring of, injection of, swapping out of, ritualization of, etc.] human blood and tissue is happening right under our noses, and it's nothing new. The vampires lore did not just come out of some sort of novel work of fiction or a novelization of a fable, but is rooted in something that is very, very real. Vampire-like beings existed in the pre-flood (antediluvian) days, but now only exist in spirit after their bodies were destroyed by the flood. The spirits, desiring to be embodied, now go about the rituals of what once created them all over again, so that we might have a new generation of their brand of evil come forth. What you're witnessing on a large scale through global politics is the public-facing humiliation ritual of mankind being carried out by the fallen angels and those under them that long sought our destruction: 1) The epstein file information showing all sorts of satanic/luciferian references, as well as possible cannibalism 2) Xi and Putin discussing organ harvesting benefits (implying an underlying focus on it) 3) Congressional disclosure of inter-dimensional beings existing and being unexplainable. 4) The saturation of things that would have been considered unabased debauchery in generations past being put into every facet of culture as if coordinated If you even give credence to one of the things I listed, then you're keenly aware that it's nearly impossible to talk to anyone about that topic unless they've self-selected into a social group that already believes that that thing is wrong. Others embrace one or more of the topics as a positive thing, such as welcoming the idea of inter-dimensional beings, or furthering human lifespans through genomic editing, or even just promoting the type of debauchery that would have had entire cities leveled in Old Testament times. But, this has all been prophesied to happen, and is happening exactly as it is spoken of. The truth is being suppressed, even within ones own mind, because a person of the world of today does not love the truth. There is only one way to enter in to the truth, which is to begin seeking the person whose very name is Faithful and True (Revelation 19:11). According to the following verses, to not do so would lead one into a delusion from which there is no escape: "The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thessalonians 2:9-12)
- otikik 8mo agoNicely put, I hope you have very potent solar lamps at home
- sandworm101 8mo agoVampire therapy is real. Give an old person an infusion from a closely-matched teenager and they improve by almost every metric. This isnt speculation. It is a noted side effect of any treatment invovling transfusion. (It also helps that older immune systems are less active and react less dramatically to forgien blood.)
- rbanffy 8mo agoAs 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.
- bloomingeek 8mo agoHisss...I mean, amen! I bet that scumbag has never eaten a bowl of Count Chocula either.
- irishcoffee 8mo agoOh, it applies to sama perfectly, except for the sophisticated bit, or empathy. Are all vampires sociopaths or just some of them?
- almosthere 8mo agoMost unless they dated a vampire slayer...
- rbanffy 8mo ago> Are all vampires sociopaths or just some of them? That’s anti-vampire propaganda. Sociopaths have well above average representation among billionaires, not vampires.
- reactordev 8mo agoHe’s an imposter, using blood infusions from young victims of his digital entrapments.
- dmonitor 8mo agoVampires 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
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- an-allen 8mo agoOh there are vampires. They are very old. But they are mostly illusions of light. Once the veil is removed the disappointment of hell sets in. Smoke, mirrors, DNA, sound. The French people didn't invest the most elaborate head chopping off machine for just spectacle…
- amoss 8mo agoReasonable hypothesis. Supported by data. Seems legit
- holografix 8mo agoIncredibly sad to lear that Peter Thiel owns so much land in one of the earth’s most beautiful places. If I was a kiwi I would be livid at the government allowing this purchase to go through.
- oxag3n 8mo agoHard to tell if it's a sarcasm or not.
- TurdF3rguson 8mo agoI'm convinced that those weird purple blotches on POTUS's hands are caused by transfusions from his blood boy.
- nphardon 8mo agoThat quip(?) on Attia is darrrrrrrk. It's saying you must exchange your soul.
- fhdkweig 8mo agoThis predates 2005. A 1991 Simpsons episode depicts the rejuvenation powers of young blood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feud_(The_Simpsons) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feud_(The_Simpsons)
- satisfice 8mo agoWhere do vampires put their money? A: Biomedical startups!
- kcatskcolbdi 8mo agochatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity.
- kcatskcolbdi 8mo agochatgpt formatting is a scourge on humanity
- tonnydourado 8mo agoThe fuck did I just read.
- givan 8mo agoI repeat, just like clocks, people can be of different makes. No matter how hard a man tries, even if he is put in a glass case, when his time comes the spring runs out. And once the mechanism is dead, no matter how clean and whole it is, no matter how much you try to warm it up, blow on it—if the spiral spring is missing—the man is gone. Yet I can do something to live longer. Thoughts have a definite length. I can unwind them very fast—then the end comes quickly, or I may unwind them slowly, and the end will come more slowly. When we live as we do we think mechanically and quite unnecessarily. We very seldom think when necessary. So we could be much more economical. The secret is very simple. If any man really succeeds in understanding and learning to spend only as much as is necessary he will be able to economize a great deal of energy. Now look inwards at your thinking. You will see that you think all the time, associations flow on unceasingly. Now if you begin to think intentionally, you will find that you think very slowly, whereas when thoughts run on by themselves they flow very fast. Compare the two states: one, when our thoughts flow fast and the other when they flow slowly. For example, we are impatiently waiting for someone. We are all the time occupied with the thought—when will the person we are waiting for come? What happened to him, why isn’t he here? Has he had an accident? It seems to us we have been waiting an hour at least. We look at the watch and find it has been only five minutes. Another example. You sit in a comfortable chair. You are resting, nothing worries you. For the moment you do not want to think of anything important. Your thoughts flow slowly. It seems to you that you have been sitting thus for five minutes, whereas you sat for a whole hour. Time is our thoughts. We can measure time by our thinking. If we spend many thoughts, time seems long to us. If we spend few thoughts—time seems short. Time stands in direct ratio to the flow of associations. Just as in the thinking center, associations go on in other centers also. The secret of prolonging life depends on the ability to spend the energy of our centers slowly and only intentionally. Learn to think consciously. This produces economy in the expenditure of energy. Don’t dream. Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931
- troad 8mo agoIsn't that conceptually incoherent? Premise: Thinking slower makes time appear to pass faster, and thinking faster makes time appear to pass slower. (Per the two paras following "Consider") Thesis: The secret to living longer is to alter one's perception of time, by thinking slower. But given the premise, thinking slower would make appear to pass faster. Ergo, it would make life feel shorter, not longer. In fact, the premise actually supports the exact opposite thesis: that the secret to long life is to think as fast as possible.
- darthvaden 8mo agoWhen fuckers like theil and Johnson die the world will rejoice
- xg15 8mo agoSilver prices just went through the roof a few weeks ago. Hmmm...
- winfortheworld 8mo agowhy do you feel the need to put as title “what x are not telling you” this is so tiring