From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 17:52:45 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Al Billings wrote:
> >
> > He's just going to google.com and similar and searching on the names of
> > people. If you have an active net presence under your own name, lots of
> > stuff will turn up, especially if your name is unique at all.
>
> There's a *little* more to it than just that, you know.
Ironically enough, today's "Onion" carries the following article
http://www.theonion.com/onion3645/couples_unspoken_desires.html
which explains how to reconstruct personal psychologies from browser
history files. 'While Christine's browser history exposes her
insecurities about her appearance, Allen's web-surfing patterns reveal his
career dissatisfaction. "It's obvious that Allen wants to quit his
dead-end job at the bank and become an author," said Kimble, pointing to a
list of Allen's web links to iUniverse.com and
NextGreatAmericanNovel.com. "An author who works out of his cabin in the
mountain, that is."'
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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