Cohousing-L Mailing List: AI Search Re: Cohousing-L Digest, Vol 267, Issue 10

[Kate C (katetx2001]

My email has exploded; please forgive me if I missed similar replies.
I just wonder if other people have an issue with trying to balance the 
convenience and usefulness of AI/LLM with the unconscionably environmental 
unsustainability (power and water usage).

🏳️‍🌈 Kate C 
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>   1. Re: Fw: Update from Riderwood Village (Sharon Villines)
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> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:27:35 -0400
> From: Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
> To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Fw: Update from Riderwood Village
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>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 3:05?PM, Linda Hobbet <coho [at] lindahobbet.com> wrote:
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>> Someone probably sent this tip already, but just in case. You can narrow the 
>> search on most platforms by putting Jean Smart in quotes, "Jean Smart", 
>> which should exclude the items with Jean or Smart by themselves. If you 
>> searched on "Jean Smart" plus a keyword or two from the title, it should 
>> limit the results a lot. Or the title in quotes.
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> Thank you for the reminder. Unfortunately it only works when the site is 
> designed to find exactly what you want. Amazon wants you to find anything 
> remotely like what you searched for. And many libraries seem to think you 
> don?t know what you are looking for so they return everything so you might 
> find it.
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> Of all the concerns related to AI, I have worked with it enough now to know 
> that it is actually the best way to find pretty much anything. It puts the 
> evaluative sources together with the factual. It is also wrong sometimes but 
> it also corrects ? you can say that date is wrong and it will look for 
> another one. Sometimes it will correct the next day saying former reports 
> were from a social media source that was wrong.
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> Since everyone can now add to the stream of information, junk is added. In 
> Amazon searches now I?ve found I have to be careful to choose the version of 
> a product that is not being shipped from China or offered by a small company 
> that turns out to be a person who lives in the mountains and only mails once 
> a month.
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> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Riderwood Village, Silver Spring MD
> Founding member and 25 year resident in Takoma Village, Washington DC
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