Re: MEME: Leaderless Resistance

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 11:58:25 MST

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    JAY DUGGER wrote:
    >
    > Now that google has become a regular noun instead of a proper noun, and
    > in fact a neologism, can we expect to see another word describing
    > "wanting better information than google provides"? Does one already exist?

    Actually, 'google' is a verb.

    The act of "wanting better information than google provides" is called
    "fantasizing" or "dreaming", since, of course, the notion of "better
    information than google provides" is a logical contradiction. There is no
    extra-googular information, only information we do not presently know how
    to google. Unless, of course, you still believe in the supernetural.

    Given that, you have to admire the audacity of the search engine pioneers
    who bought the web address google.com and even named their company Google.
      Astonishingly, they seem to be living up to the name so far.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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