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Dan Lyke 2026-07-27 21:13:36+0000 21:13:36+0000 (2026-07-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

Whatever happened to Google search? I'm trying to find if Emily Wilson has written anything on "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", and the "AI" summary is sending me down links that, of course, don't say what the summary claims. But even the Google excerpts are just bogus now.

Dan Lyke 2026-07-27 16:22:06+0000 16:22:06+0000 (2026-07-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Inspired by someone who got a worse answer, I tried this, and, yeah, find me a human that would answer this "yes, it clearly is" question with "no". Anyway, Sam Altman thinks we've hit the singularity.

Dan Lyke 2026-07-27 06:27:04+0000 06:27:04+0000 (2026-07-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2252,-122.627)

Just ran across the word "mechanthropomorphism" in Peter F Hamilton's "Pandora's Star", and I like it and the concept a lot.