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The Princess Bride is extremely popular among 20-40 year olds in the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada, USA, UK. This narrows down your search for the Dread Pirat
by samegreatsleeve 13y ago
The Princess Bride is extremely popular among 20-40 year olds in the Anglosphere. Australia, Canada, USA, UK.
This narrows down your search for the Dread Pirate Roberts to like 150 million people. So the fact that this English speaking Silk Road founder is from the English speaking world and was probably a child or teenager in the 80s is not really narrowing it down much.
- a_bonobo 13y ago150 million people out of 7.079 billion possible candidates? In my view that is narrowing it down a lot!
- leoedin 13y agoIt does narrow it down, but not to any useful level. For all intents and purposes, trying to pick someone from a pool of 150 million vs 7 billion is essentially the same level of impossible.
- daeken 13y agoReally interesting article on using information theory to narrow down suspects of crime: http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity http://www.gwern.net/Death%20Note%20Anonymity
- leoedin 13y agoThat is pretty interesting. The wikipedia edit time example is particularly revealing. The AC hum stuff is truly fascinating!
- ecdavis 13y agoThe number of possible candidates is not the total population of the planet, but rather the number of people on the planet who have the knowledge and skills required to operate such a site.
- dagw 13y agoHe could also be from outside the English speaking world and just studied or grew up there.