From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 16:31:35 MST
Michael M. Butler wrote:
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
>> The notion of "supergoogular" information is not only empirically
>> unverified but epistemologically nonsensical, with the only
>> conceivable interpretation being information which can only be googled
>> using special keywords. No such keywords having ever been provided,
>> we can conclude that so-called supergoogular phenomena are fantasies
>> concocted by isolates to cover their resentment of superior Google
>> skills.
>
> Hey Eliezer--Google *THIS*.
>
> Bet you can't google what finger I'm holding up.
Sigh... as usual, people fail to distinguish between information that has
not yet been googled, and information which supposedly cannot be googled
even in principle.
I assert that you were holding up your left pinky finger. As this post
will appear on the Extropian BBS and be indexed by Google, the information
is now available online. If you post a reply asserting that you were
holding up some other finger, then *that* information will be available
online. This clearly demonstrates that the information can in principle
be googled, and the only remaining question is the usual business of
sorting out trustworthy from untrustworthy pages.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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