army1987 comments on Existential Risk - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 15 November 2011 02:23PM

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Comment author: beoShaffer 15 November 2011 10:54:28PM 8 points [-]

These two are among the largest donors to Singularity Institute, an organization focused on the reduction of existential risks from artificial intelligence.

Should this be the Singularity Institute?

Comment author: [deleted] 18 November 2011 06:08:22PM 1 point [-]

There have been quite a few posts on Language Log about which proper names are preceded by the, e.g. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2172

Comment author: dlthomas 18 November 2011 06:17:07PM *  1 point [-]

In the time of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, "Yosemite" was apparently "The Yosemite"

I've been curious as to when it dropped its article.