It's Not Friday, But Let's Hit the Pipe With George Again

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Remember this riff? He's back, with a riff on the concept of the Universal Library. Honestly, I'm not as enamored of this piece, but at the core, I think Dyson is arguing that Google is, in fact, actively laying down the foundation of the first AI. Exahaaaaaaaaale. (Of course, I argue as much in my book...) The Library, indeed, contained everything, Borges explained, including "the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels' autobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue..." Even in the Age of Search, we still need authors to find the meaningful books!...

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