Hope you enjoy! It's getting referenced so much these days, I think I'm due for a reread myself.
audaxdreik
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Oh yes, I think Peter Watts is a great author. He's very good at tackling high concept ideas while also keeping it fun and interesting. Blindsight has a vampire in it in case there wasn't already enough going on for you 😁
Unrelated to the topic at hand, I also highly recommend Starfish by him. It was the first novel of his I read. A dark, psychological thriller about a bunch of misfits working a deep sea geothermal power plant and how they cope (or don't) with the situation at hand.
Blindsight mentioned!
The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.
This has been my biggest problem with it. It places a cognitive load on me that wasn't there before, having to cut through the noise.
Absolutely. It drives me fucking crazy every time I hear the Democrats lament that they lost because they couldn't get their message through to the people. Fuckers, that's absolutely ass-backwards. We're trying to get our message through to you and time and time again, you pretend not to hear us. Is it any wonder at all?