This reminded me of the post on connectionism. I tried searching “a person who isn’t Genghis Khan” and surely enough, the first things it comes up with are all related to Genghis Kahn.
I think that “imagine you’re using Google” could be a fairly useful heuristic for trying to phrase queries to your brain.
This reminded me of the post on connectionism. I tried searching “a person who isn’t Genghis Khan” and surely enough, the first things it comes up with are all related to Genghis Kahn.
I think that “imagine you’re using Google” could be a fairly useful heuristic for trying to phrase queries to your brain.
It will not return any specific person even if you speak Google: a person—”Genghis Khan”
I googled ‘a specific person—”genghis khan”’ and got Bob Dylan in the top result. If you want specificity, include “specific”.
Then again, if Google were optimized to provide useful answers to queries like these, it probably wouldn’t be very useful.