Comments on: Inference With The Vampire https://www.isegoria.net/2016/05/inference-with-the-vampire/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:20:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2016/05/inference-with-the-vampire/comment-page-1/#comment-3717493 T. Beholder Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:04:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=40291#comment-3717493 A good exercise, yes.

Imagine digging up a historical figure you admire, getting them up to speed on everything that’s happened since they died, and then seeing what they think about the questions you are mulling over.

…And then you turn into Moldbug. ;]

As to the vampires, the implicit part is non-stop risk management practice and selection. I mean, anything that survived for 2-3 centuries in a perforce adversarial environment (and while augmented, also with a crippling weakness) on top of all the large scale conflicts? It would not act like a B movie zombie. It would be like a veteran commando, times 100.

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