site:lesswrong.com “artificial intelligence” = 30,700 results
site:lesswrong.com rationality = 13,500 results
site:lesswrong.com “Singularity” = 32,000 results
site:lesswrong.com bias = 5,230 results
site:lesswrong.com “cryonics” = 1,680 results
site:lesswrong.com bayes = 1,660 results
site:lesswrong.com “evolutionary psychology” = 804 results
site:lesswrong.com “Bayes’ theorem” = 689 results
This doesn’t prove anything, but I thought it was interesting. You can conduct your own searches, what results do you anticipate on a site like lesswrong if it cares most strongly about rationality and much less about topics like AI and cryonics?
site:lesswrong.com “artificial intelligence” = 30,700 results site:lesswrong.com “Singularity” = 32,000 results
Thought this was because of the logo at the top of the page, so searched for “Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” and got:
site:lesswrong.com “Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” = 111,000 results
So something’s weird. Also, if you move “site:lesswrong.com″ to the right side you get 116,000 instead.
Google’s result counter is an estimate, and not a very good one. It’s within 2 or 3 orders of magnitude… usually.
You’re right.
Or maybe those result counts don’t measure what you think they measure.
site:lesswrong.com “artificial intelligence” = 30,700 results
site:lesswrong.com rationality = 13,500 results
site:lesswrong.com “Singularity” = 32,000 results
site:lesswrong.com bias = 5,230 results
site:lesswrong.com “cryonics” = 1,680 results
site:lesswrong.com bayes = 1,660 results
site:lesswrong.com “evolutionary psychology” = 804 results
site:lesswrong.com “Bayes’ theorem” = 689 results
This doesn’t prove anything, but I thought it was interesting. You can conduct your own searches, what results do you anticipate on a site like lesswrong if it cares most strongly about rationality and much less about topics like AI and cryonics?
Thought this was because of the logo at the top of the page, so searched for “Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” and got:
site:lesswrong.com “Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence” = 111,000 results
So something’s weird. Also, if you move “site:lesswrong.com″ to the right side you get 116,000 instead.
Google’s result counter is an estimate, and not a very good one. It’s within 2 or 3 orders of magnitude… usually.
You’re right.
Or maybe those result counts don’t measure what you think they measure.