Solvent comments on Your inner Google - Less Wrong

101 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 September 2011 06:56AM

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Comment author: Solvent 16 September 2011 03:17:51AM 14 points [-]

This reminded me of the post on connectionism. I tried searching "a person who isn't Genghis Khan" and surely enough, the first things it comes up with are all related to Genghis Kahn.

I think that "imagine you're using Google" could be a fairly useful heuristic for trying to phrase queries to your brain.

Comment author: kurokikaze 16 September 2011 08:56:45AM 2 points [-]

It will not return any specific person even if you speak Google: a person -"Genghis Khan"

Comment author: Solvent 16 September 2011 10:55:42AM 6 points [-]

Then again, if Google were optimized to provide useful answers to queries like these, it probably wouldn't be very useful.

Comment author: monsterzero 16 September 2011 08:56:06PM 7 points [-]

I googled 'a specific person -"genghis khan"' and got Bob Dylan in the top result. If you want specificity, include "specific".