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possibly a bug - I searched for "writers like lewis thomas" and the top two results were by thomas himself.
by zem 3mo ago
possibly a bug - I searched for "writers like lewis thomas" and the top two results were by thomas himself.
- olooney 3mo agoOn a similar note: on Steam, the original Dark Souls game[1] is listed with the "souls-like" tag. That's not wrong, I guess, but just kind of a tautology. Grice's maxims[2] generally have such tautologies omitted in ordinary conversation as non-informative. [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTERED/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTE... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle
- vkazanov 3mo agoFor me it is surprisngly natural to include the original thing into "a set of thing-likes". Why does it feel wrong (or meaningless) to you?
- inigyou 3mo agoI really thought ChatGPT would be able to tell me what this is called but it can't. I suggest "circular eponym". It's like calling a CRT monitor a really big flatscreen.
- zem 3mo agoit's more like you would call a xerox-brand photocopier a "xerox machine" and mean that it was a photocopier rather than that it was made by xerox.
- yellow_lead 3mo agoFor embeddings based search I think this is unavoidable