Imagine my surprise when I once added a reference to a Wikipedia and 20 seconds later googled it to see whether I missed anything—and that WP article was prominent in the hits.
This site uses the google custom search (see sidebar), and it provides a feature for on-demand indexing. I suppose it shares the index it makes with google proper.
This may be funny but the actual context makes it a) less rationalist and b) a bit sad. There’s some argument that he was actually talking about the standard at the time that Jews couldn’t have any access to the trendier clubs.
I sent the club a wire stating, “PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER”.
Telegram to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills to which he belonged, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321
Groucho sent the quote to a club which he was a member of, that was founded by a Jew. I can see how one could infer an ironic reference to antisemitism from that. Interesting that the quote as often paraphrased drops the ‘people like me’ part.
“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.”—Groucho Marx
It’s funny, but NO NO NO! This is exactly why rationalists suck at forming socially cohesive groups! :)
That doesn’t seem all that likely to me. It would seem somewhat more likely if the quote was ‘will not’...
I rather immediately decided to see if this had been posted before. Google indexed this comment within 2 minutes.
Imagine my surprise when I once added a reference to a Wikipedia and 20 seconds later googled it to see whether I missed anything—and that WP article was prominent in the hits.
This site uses the google custom search (see sidebar), and it provides a feature for on-demand indexing. I suppose it shares the index it makes with google proper.
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So far, this has been a failure—the test string still isn’t found by google, and the previous post doesn’t even show up in the custom search yet.
Had to stop polling because google now thinks I’m a bot.
I found the posting easily enough by searching “google custom search lesswrong”. Try your experiment again using a shorter string.
Google does seem to love this site! (I wonder if Google has specialised technology in place for handling reddit based sites.)
This may be funny but the actual context makes it a) less rationalist and b) a bit sad. There’s some argument that he was actually talking about the standard at the time that Jews couldn’t have any access to the trendier clubs.
Interesting—below I give the wikipedia take on it.
Groucho sent the quote to a club which he was a member of, that was founded by a Jew. I can see how one could infer an ironic reference to antisemitism from that. Interesting that the quote as often paraphrased drops the ‘people like me’ part.