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YC startups can point to whichever website PG + JL register. That kind of google karma will easily put George as the #1 George on any of the search engines. No
by prakash 18y ago
YC startups can point to whichever website PG + JL register. That kind of google karma will easily put George as the #1 George on any of the search engines.
Now, if the YC companies are really creative, George will be the 1st result returned even if someone types in "Eliezer Yudkowsky" ;-)
- Eliezer 18y agoGood solution, I suppose. At least the first part. To be fair, I'll be first in line to congratulate PGJL on having not named their kid Jeeebo Graham just because the domain name was available. But I do advise prospective parents to think hard about what the child might think of the name when grown up. Sure, in one sense it would have been awesome, but I'm glad my mother didn't let my father actually name me Luke Skywalker Yudkowsky, Hari Seldon Yudkowsky, or Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan Yudkowsky. Or similarly: I was once at a science fiction convention, and I saw a young kid - maybe 8 or so - wearing a nametag that said "Vanyel". I walked up to him and said, "Excuse me, is Vanyel your real name?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you named after Vanyel Ashkevron?" He said, "Yes." And I said, "Awesome." Which, in a sense, it was - it definitely had a high coolness factor. But what I wanted to ask was, "Did your parents think at all about what sort of problems they might be volunteering their child for, by naming him after one of the most famous gay characters in all of fantasy fiction?" But I didn't ask, because I didn't know if they had explained that part to him yet. Names matter.
- nostrademons 18y agoI know a family that named their kids Luke, Leia, and Jedi. It actually works out fairly well, because Luke and Leia were reasonably common names in my generation (though Leia is usually spelled Leah), and Jedi just goes by Jed.
- tlrobinson 18y agoWell, that's better than "JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell", "Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell" and "Adolf Hitler Campbell": http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holland_township_family_angry.html http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/today/index.ssf/2008/12/holl...
- dfranke 18y agoIf you're going to be creative with a kid's name, you should do it with the middle name. Then it can be up to him whether he wants to use it. My parents gave both my sister and I middle names of Fox, and when she started college my sister begin introducing herself by it.
- prakash 18y agointeresting. maybe the middle name should be left blank and that person could fill it when he/she turns 18!
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago"Yes, that's John _____ Smith. Yes, five underscores. Yes, I know. Yes. Ok, thanks for getting that straightened out."
- prakash 18y agothats funny..
- dfranke 18y agoThere are three ex-presidents, two of them living, who I think would have consider more Google juice than a conspiracy of YC startups.