XiXiDu comments on An Outside View on Less Wrong's Advice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 03 July 2011 06:03:02PM 1 point [-]

This doesn't prove anything, but I thought it was interesting. You can conduct your own searches, what results do you anticipate on a site like lesswrong if it cares most strongly about rationality and much less about topics like AI and cryonics?

Comment author: Bongo 03 July 2011 06:32:25PM *  11 points [-]

site:lesswrong.com "artificial intelligence" = 30,700 results site:lesswrong.com "Singularity" = 32,000 results

Thought this was because of the logo at the top of the page, so searched for "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence" and got:

So something's weird. Also, if you move "site:lesswrong.com" to the right side you get 116,000 instead.

Comment author: saturn 03 July 2011 10:32:42PM 9 points [-]

Google's result counter is an estimate, and not a very good one. It's within 2 or 3 orders of magnitude... usually.

Comment author: XiXiDu 03 July 2011 06:44:26PM 3 points [-]

You're right.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 03 July 2011 10:35:34PM 1 point [-]

Or maybe those result counts don't measure what you think they measure.

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