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John_Maxwell_IV comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: falenas108 03 July 2012 11:21:25PM *  0 points [-]

This is getting a lot of downvotes, meaning lots of people agree. To those people: Although it does make us look more cultish, does that outweigh the good from the lack of connections between "cult" and "lesswrong" on google?

Edited to correct, I originally had a typo where I said it meant people disagree instead of agree.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 06 July 2012 05:25:36AM *  2 points [-]

This sounds like magical thinking about Google. Are you worried about people searching for the term "cult" finding Less Wrong? If not, what are you worried about exactly?

I'm pretty sure autocompletes are done on the basis of what people search for, not what keywords are present on a domain.

Comment author: falenas108 06 July 2012 05:42:35AM -2 points [-]

The main concern would be people already searching cult and lesswrong together, and coming up with articles like this one which would be very bad signaling.