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This has been well-known in the vampire community for centuries. [edit] More seriously, wow time to start talking about the ethics of immortality.

dang 12y ago
Please don't post substanceless one-liners here. The second one sounds more serious, but "wow time to start talking about the ethics of immortality" doesn't engage with anything in this article; it's simply an immediate leap to something generic and obvious. That is not what HN discussions need.
- riggins 12y ago
  Please don't post substanceless one-liners here. i.e. don't make jokes. I've wondered about this because I've done the same thing and gotten downvoted. There's nothing about not making jokes in the guidelines. Personally I like a little humor mixed with my HN. Is there some unspoken guideline that HN is supposed to be humorless? And on a semi-serious note, isn't mildly interesting that one of the most common cultural myths (vampires) may have some scientific validity?
  - dang 12y ago
    scott_s made an insightful comment about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289. HN isn't against humor per se. Personally, when I read Reddit, I'm in awe of how good the best jokes are. The problem is that you can't have everything; with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor. HN's tradeoff is to optimize for signal-noise ratio, so that stuff tends to get hammered. There are other places to get lots of internet humor. HN is never going to be one of those, not because people don't like to laugh, but because the signal/noise problem is hard.
    - Retric 12y ago
      I do occasionally up vote posts that I find funny. I just down vote several times that. The real issue is HN has an older audience which does not find obvious one liners interesting.
      - deleted 12y ago
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    - danieltillett 12y ago
      Sometimes a really clever one-can contain an amazing amount of information (laconic humour is a good example of this[0]). The signal-to-noise ratio can be very high here. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
  - jfoster 12y ago
    Would it be that bad if one of the best places for intelligent tech discussion online didn't include humour? There's an abundance of humour everywhere else.
  - scelerat 12y ago
    > isn't mildly interesting that one of the most common cultural myths (vampires) may have some scientific validity? That's really all I was commenting on. I could have spelled it out like you did, but clearly my tone was not to some people's liking.
gjjhjjjhhh 12y ago
Isn't there a way to store your own bone marrow( or the cells that could make blood ) when you're young, and then generate your own blood in a laboratory.
phaer 12y ago
Only tangential to the ethics of immortality, more about possible consequences of immortality for a given individual is "All Men Are Mortal" by Simone de Beauvoir, highly recommended.

dang 12y ago

Please don't post substanceless one-liners here. The second one sounds more serious, but "wow time to start talking about the ethics of immortality" doesn't engage with anything in this article; it's simply an immediate leap to something generic and obvious. That is not what HN discussions need.

riggins 12y ago
Please don't post substanceless one-liners here. i.e. don't make jokes. I've wondered about this because I've done the same thing and gotten downvoted. There's nothing about not making jokes in the guidelines. Personally I like a little humor mixed with my HN. Is there some unspoken guideline that HN is supposed to be humorless? And on a semi-serious note, isn't mildly interesting that one of the most common cultural myths (vampires) may have some scientific validity?
- dang 12y ago
  scott_s made an insightful comment about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289. HN isn't against humor per se. Personally, when I read Reddit, I'm in awe of how good the best jokes are. The problem is that you can't have everything; with a culture of humor comes a flood of lame humor. HN's tradeoff is to optimize for signal-noise ratio, so that stuff tends to get hammered. There are other places to get lots of internet humor. HN is never going to be one of those, not because people don't like to laugh, but because the signal/noise problem is hard.
  - Retric 12y ago
    I do occasionally up vote posts that I find funny. I just down vote several times that. The real issue is HN has an older audience which does not find obvious one liners interesting.
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
  - danieltillett 12y ago
    Sometimes a really clever one-can contain an amazing amount of information (laconic humour is a good example of this[0]). The signal-to-noise ratio can be very high here. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconic_phrase
- jfoster 12y ago
  Would it be that bad if one of the best places for intelligent tech discussion online didn't include humour? There's an abundance of humour everywhere else.
- scelerat 12y ago
  > isn't mildly interesting that one of the most common cultural myths (vampires) may have some scientific validity? That's really all I was commenting on. I could have spelled it out like you did, but clearly my tone was not to some people's liking.

gjjhjjjhhh 12y ago

Isn't there a way to store your own bone marrow( or the cells that could make blood ) when you're young, and then generate your own blood in a laboratory.

phaer 12y ago

Only tangential to the ethics of immortality, more about possible consequences of immortality for a given individual is "All Men Are Mortal" by Simone de Beauvoir, highly recommended.