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Blindsight

Peter Watts

Two months since the stars fell...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

Sam Tallent mentions this science fiction book about vampires in space, which was recommended to him by Neil Blancamp. He mentions enjoying the book and describes some of its details, including the vampire's origin and the plot involving aliens.

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He set me hip to this fiction vampire book that I fucking love it's really good let me get the name of it

— Episode: #2175 - Sam Tallent

Episode: #2175 - Sam Tallent

Sam Tallent mentions this science fiction book about vampires in space, which was recommended to him by Neil Blancamp. He mentions enjoying the book and describes some of its details, including the vampire's origin and the plot involving aliens.

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He set me hip to this fiction vampire book that I fucking love it's really good let me get the name of it

It's like Blindsight or something like that now you're saying I remember him telling that story yeah, let me find it cause I have it in my phone it's really good though I met George R.R. Martin oh did you really? yeah he came to see

It's Peter Watts it's called Blindsight it's a science fiction space movie about alien, about vampires and the vampires

It's kind of like I'm gonna fuck it up but the story is that these vampires they take some sort of medication there's some sort of medical thing that they do to keep them from feasting on people but that they did exist and that they had always existed

And then someone that they were killed off because you know they were killing everybody and then we kind of relegated them to myth and then someone cloned one and brought it back and then they started having more and the vampires were going to space with them

The Ezra Klein Show

Mollick called Blindsight a depressing yet fascinating scifi thriller about an alien mission that explores sentience, consciousness and intelligence, making it a chilling read for a world with potentially nonsentient AI.

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The third book is Blindsight by Peter Watts, a depressing but fascinating thriller about an interstellar mission to an alien race that explores sentience, consciousness and intelligence, making it a c...

— Episode: How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?

Episode: How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?

Mollick called Blindsight a depressing yet fascinating scifi thriller about an alien mission that explores sentience, consciousness and intelligence, making it a chilling read for a world with potentially nonsentient AI.

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The third book is Blindsight by Peter Watts, a depressing but fascinating thriller about an interstellar mission to an alien race that explores sentience, consciousness and intelligence, making it a chilling read for a world where machines might be intelligent without being sentient.

Episode: Inside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artific...

Klein mentioned Blindsight while discussing neurodiversity, noting that Peter Watts looks at the benefits of neurodiversity in that book.

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The idea of neurodiversity as a survival trait is something that Peter Watts also looks at the benefits of neurodiversity in books like Blindsight.

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