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Comment author: CarlShulman 15 March 2012 01:15:27AM *  26 points [-]

The top autocompletes for "Less Wrong" are

  • sequences
  • harry potter
  • meetups

These are my (logged-in) Google results for searching "Less Wrong_X" for each letter of the alphabet (some duplicates appear):

  • akrasia
  • amanda knox
  • atheism
  • australia
  • blog
  • bayes
  • basilisk
  • bayes theorem
  • cryonics
  • charity
  • cult
  • discussion
  • definition
  • decoherence
  • decision theory
  • epub
  • evolutionary psychology
  • eliezer yudkowsky
  • evidence
  • free will
  • fanfiction
  • fanfic
  • fiction
  • gender
  • games
  • goals
  • growing up is hard
  • harry potter
  • harry potter and the methods of rationality
  • how to be happy
  • hindsight bias
  • irc
  • inferential distance
  • iq
  • illusion of transparency
  • joint configurations
  • joy in the merely real
  • kindle
  • amanda knox
  • lyrics
  • luminosity
  • lost purposes
  • leave a line of retreat
  • meetup
  • mobi
  • meditation
  • methods of rationality
  • newcomb's problem
  • nyc
  • nootropics
  • neural categories
  • optimal employment
  • overcoming bias
  • open thread
  • outside the laboratory
  • procrastination
  • pdf
  • polyamory
  • podcast
  • quantum physics
  • quotes
  • quantum mechanics
  • rationality quotes
  • rationality quotes
  • rationalwiki
  • reading list
  • rationality
  • sequences
  • survey
  • survey results
  • sequences pdf
  • twitter
  • textbooks
  • three worlds collide
  • toronto
  • ugh fields
  • universal fire
  • value is fragile
  • village idiot
  • wiki
  • wikipedia
  • words
  • what is evidence
  • yudkowsky
  • yvain
  • your strength as a rationalist
  • your rationality is my business
  • zombies
  • zombies the movie

The autocomplete bit doesn't seem to be too big a problem for Less Wrong.

However, it is one of the immediate autocompletes for "Singularity Institute." What pages do you get on the first page of results if you search "singularity institute cult"? I see the wikipedia page, the SI website, Michael Anissimov's blog, RationalWiki, Less Wrong posts about cultishness and death spirals, Lukeprog's blog, a Forbes article mention of "cargo-cult enthusiasm," and at the bottom a blog post making a case against SI and other transhumanist organizations.

Comment author: timtyler 15 March 2012 11:16:11AM 0 points [-]

Luke's link to How Cults work is pretty funny.