Stats: 72% of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about AI
Snap out of it you sad sacks, hope you can recognize negative emotional contagion when you see it!
- ▪Snap out of it you sad sacks, hope you can recognize negative emotional contagion when you see it!
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| Original publisher | Marginal REVOLUTION |
| Canonical URL | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/earth-fact-of-the-day-2.html |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:28:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T23:40:26.867Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-24T23:40:26.867Z |
| 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 | XeL4de644uKC · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| 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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Earth fact of the day by Tyler Cowen September 24, 2026 at 2:58 pm in Data Source Web/Tech An average of 72 percent of respondents said they felt curious, happy or excited about A.I., compared with 41 percent who felt worried, sad or angry.’@nytimes‘s Damien Cave uses @Gallup data to remind us the rest of the world digs AI. It is 93 percent positive from China. That is from Nick Gillespie. Snap out of it you sad sacks, hope you can recognize negative emotional contagion when you see it! You do not all need to be regional thinkers. Here are the full rankings.
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