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possibly a bug - I searched for "writers like lewis thomas" and the top two results were by thomas himself.

On a similar note: on Steam, the original Dark Souls game[1] is listed with the "souls-like" tag. That's not wrong, I guess, but just kind of a tautology. Grice's maxims[2] generally have such tautologies omitted in ordinary conversation as non-informative.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/570940/DARK_SOULS_REMASTE...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle

For me it is surprisngly natural to include the original thing into "a set of thing-likes".

Why does it feel wrong (or meaningless) to you?

I really thought ChatGPT would be able to tell me what this is called but it can't. I suggest "circular eponym".

It's like calling a CRT monitor a really big flatscreen.

it's more like you would call a xerox-brand photocopier a "xerox machine" and mean that it was a photocopier rather than that it was made by xerox.

For embeddings based search I think this is unavoidable

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