You should’ve also searched for the URL since people often post things as bare URLs. In any case, it would not have helped: neither Google nor LW/Reddit match search queries on embedded URLs. (Google used to support something like that, a link: operator, but the current results are so incomplete and bad I never bother any more.)
In this case, I knew we had already discussed the essay since I had found it interesting and I just went through “scurvy site:lesswrong.com″ until I found the conversations.
Thank you for finding those; I searched for the title of the article but was unable to find previous posts about it.
You should’ve also searched for the URL since people often post things as bare URLs. In any case, it would not have helped: neither Google nor LW/Reddit match search queries on embedded URLs. (Google used to support something like that, a
link:operator, but the current results are so incomplete and bad I never bother any more.)In this case, I knew we had already discussed the essay since I had found it interesting and I just went through “scurvy site:lesswrong.com″ until I found the conversations.