Let the Machines In
Let the machines in Aug 2, 2026 • Uncategorized • 6 min read “From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I quote it often as a tongue-in-cheek way to commiserate about the difficulties of working in a line of business where attempting to predict the future is a daily task (I run an AI company). My husband maintains that the very fabric of the universe is irony.
- ▪Let the machines in Aug 2, 2026 • Uncategorized • 6 min read “From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost.
- ▪I quote it often as a tongue-in-cheek way to commiserate about the difficulties of working in a line of business where attempting to predict the future is a daily task (I run an AI company).
- ▪My husband maintains that the very fabric of the universe is irony.
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| Original publisher | Semenzin |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.semenzin.com/let-the-machines-in/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:17:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T21:10:40.989Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-02T21:10:40.989Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Let the machines in Aug 2, 2026 • Uncategorized • 6 min read “From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such sympathy would be one of the least revocable kinds of immortality.” Marguerite Yourcenar, Memories of Hadrian “It’s very difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” reads an adage often attributed to Niels Bohr. I quote it often as a tongue-in-cheek way to commiserate about the difficulties of working in a line of business where attempting to predict the future is a daily task (I run an AI company).
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