Re: I am the Google

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 16:31:35 MST

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    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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