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Blindsight by Peter Watts

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If you're into scifi at all you should read this. I wont spoil it but its about intelligence and consciousness. the writing is good too which is rare in scifi

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This book is very strange because it's hard sci-fi that goes into a ton of technical details and describes jobs that we can barely comprehend at our level of technology.

And then there's just a vampire.

And you think, "oh cool, there's some sort of futuristic technology that turns people into vampires." But no, it's not that. The vampires have always existed alongside humanity.

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I think the idea is that scientists reactivated vampire genes that were dormant before, so there's still a "sci-fi" reason we have vampires as public knowledge in 2100 when we didn't in 2000.

Symbolically, it feeds into the general inhuman mood of the social changes the protagonist is living through (extreme augmentation, mind uploading, obsolescence next to AI, etc). Did anybody ask you if we SHOULD bring human-hunting apex predators back? Nah lol. It served someone's interests

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its vampires that are supposed to have won out, with their "intelligence without consciousness" just like the aliens but we won due to a genetic freak accident its goofy but fits the theme

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have you read the sequel?

At the end of the day human's are a genetic dead end. Even the merged human consciousness gets cucked by vampires.

The good news is high tier AI created by humanity should win.

On the other hand, the aliens managed to invade the planet from within.

Everybody lost.

God turned out to be a computer virus.

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