{"id":61,"slug":"blindsight","name":"Blindsight","type":"media","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:34:37.906345+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":[],"episodes":[{"id":"bfbd065d-3d80-41a4-80f7-ed14b470ff75","slug":"s12e20-dan-really-are-you-even-reading-what-youre","subject":"s12e20: Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here?","title":"Dan, really, are you even reading what you're typing here?","publish_date":"2022-06-14T23:58:50.566022+00:00","year":2022,"month":6,"season":12,"episode":20,"episode_label":"s12e20","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s12e20-dan-really-are-you-even-reading-what-youre/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2080,"context":" … like to be a bat, exactly\n, or liked reading books like Peter Watts'\n<mark>Blindsight</mark>\nor if in general you just like thinking a bit about the nature of … ","reading_minutes":10},{"id":"b5f2c63c-d397-4c5c-b138-0c89d8c2c45e","slug":"s06e07-firebreak-protocol","subject":"s06e07: Firebreak Protocol","title":"Firebreak Protocol","publish_date":"2018-10-05T00:00:00+00:00","year":2018,"month":10,"season":6,"episode":7,"episode_label":"s06e07","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s06e07-firebreak-protocol/","is_premium":0,"word_count":5446,"context":" … less “please does anyone have any more books like <mark>Blindsight</mark>” and I agree that the novella *is* like <mark>Blindsight</mark> in that it’s as bleak and also about … ","reading_minutes":27},{"id":"20b542cd-2cb0-48b3-972a-889a659dd2d2","slug":"s5e07-acquisition-and-ingest-mode-dial-for-a-wide","subject":"s5e07: Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread","title":"Acquisition and ingest mode, dial for a wide spread","publish_date":"2018-03-20T00:00:00+00:00","year":2018,"month":3,"season":5,"episode":7,"episode_label":"s05e07","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s5e07-acquisition-and-ingest-mode-dial-for-a-wide/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2103,"context":" … As usual Peter Watts (<mark>Blindsight</mark>, etc.) has already thought about how it could be\nweaponized\n. Such an arc-based weapon feels a bit like amusica, a disease from … ","reading_minutes":11},{"id":"91b0eb66-87e2-4d19-9257-2e6270097980","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-three-not-doing-a","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Fifty Three: Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia","title":"Not Doing A Nick Bilton; Counterexamples; echofuckingpraxia","publish_date":"2014-09-02T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":9,"season":null,"episode":153,"episode_label":"episode 153","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-fifty-three-not-doing-a/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1806,"context":" … Pretty much straight after finishing Echopraxia I went on to re-read <mark>Blindsight</mark>, because the former helped me figure out the bits I liked about the latter.\n\n\n\nTurns … ","reading_minutes":9},{"id":"67e7148c-932b-435d-968a-01c0a373368f","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-thirty-seven-human","subject":"Episode One Hundred And Thirty Seven: Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs","title":"Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs","publish_date":"2014-08-07T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":8,"season":null,"episode":137,"episode_label":"episode 137","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-thirty-seven-human/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1179,"context":" … you should go read <mark>Blindsight</mark>[8]. It's free online, too.)\n\n\n\nSo. Those are your two activation phrases for today: \"traumatically rehumanized\" and \"human extinction\".\n\n\n\n[1]\nKen Eklund … ","reading_minutes":6},{"id":"3f13c74f-3d6b-43dc-9f7c-8ac69ad000fb","slug":"episode-one-hundred-and-nine-what-you-want","subject":"Episode One Hundred and Nine: What You Want; Messiahs; The List","title":"What You Want; Messiahs; The List","publish_date":"2014-06-24T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":6,"season":null,"episode":109,"episode_label":"episode 109","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-one-hundred-and-nine-what-you-want/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2121,"context":" … A Novel\nand\nAnnabel Scheme\nby Robin Sloan\nLittle Brother\nby Cory Doctorow\nThe Lifecycle of Software Objects\nby Ted Chiang\n<mark>Blindsight</mark>\nby Peter Watts\n--\n\nOK, that's … ","reading_minutes":11},{"id":"840c972b-cd5b-4a4b-9d02-b07c94671e60","slug":"episode-seven-rate-all-the-things","subject":"Episode Seven: Rate All The Things","title":"Rate All The Things","publish_date":"2014-01-31T00:00:00+00:00","year":2014,"month":1,"season":null,"episode":7,"episode_label":"episode 7","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/episode-seven-rate-all-the-things/","is_premium":0,"word_count":1581,"context":" … are in BERG's sadly now-defunct Schooloscope[6] and in Peter Watts' <mark>Blindsight</mark>[7], of which if you haven't read it, oh my god what are … ","reading_minutes":8}]}