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2025-07-14 19:46:15.681679+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Marcus ‪@marcusjmerritt.com‬

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Marcus ‪@marcusjmerritt.com‬

Yeah, a lot of the time I feel like AI boosters are people who think they loved Hitchhikers Guide but didn’t get the joke

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