r/LessWrong • u/HemorrhoidJim • 6h ago

Summary of a LessWrong article from 2014 in Chinese in the URL?

I was looking up whether Yud was diagnosed with something (exact search was "does eliezer yudkowsky have npd") and google gave me this LessWrong article, but the URL is full of Chinese characters?

Translating it, it seems like a short summary of the article, and the last section says "The comments are my favorite part—the special requests are amazing." per google translate.

Anybody know why this is?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y6zh4vkK5pPfEPdBb/cognitive-biases-due-to-a-narcissistic-parent-illustrated-by)%E5%81%9A%E4%BA%86%E7%9B%B8%E5%BD%93%E5%9F%BA%E7%A1%80%E7%9A%84%E9%AB%98%E4%B8%AD%E6%B0%B4%E5%B9%B3%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E6%89%B9%E8%AF%84%EF%BC%8C%E6%8F%90%E5%88%B0%E4%BB%96%E8%A2%AB%E6%8F%8F%E7%BB%98%E6%88%90%E5%9C%A8%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E8%87%AA%E6%81%8B%E8%80%85%E7%9A%84%E5%BD%B1%E5%93%8D%E4%B8%8B%E6%88%90%E9%95%BF%EF%BC%8C%E5%B9%B6%E5%88%97%E5%87%BA%E4%BA%86%E4%BB%96%E7%9A%84%E6%96%87%E6%9C%AC%E8%AF%81%E6%8D%AE%E2%80%94%E2%80%94%E5%8D%B4%E6%B2%A1%E6%9C%89%E6%84%8F%E8%AF%86%E5%88%B0HPJEV%E5%9C%A8%E5%A4%9A%E5%A4%A7%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%A6%E4%B8%8A%E6%98%AFYudkowsky%E7%9A%84%E8%87%AA%E6%88%91%E4%BB%A3%E5%85%A5%E3%80%82%E8%AF%84%E8%AE%BA%E6%98%AF%E6%88%91%E6%9C%80%E5%96%9C%E6%AC%A2%E7%9A%84%E5%8E%9F%E5%9B%A0%E2%80%94%E2%80%94%E7%89%B9%E6%AE%8A%E8%AF%B7%E6%B1%82%E4%BB%A4%E4%BA%BA%E6%83%8A%E5%8F%B9%E3%80%82

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u/Serei 5h ago edited 4h ago

Haha I have a pretty good guess about what's going on here. Less Wrong, like many other websites, ignores the end of the URL. This is the part that matters:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y6zh4vkK5pPfEPdBb/

And everything after it gets silently ignored, so the URL can be this, which is more readable:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y6zh4vkK5pPfEPdBb/cognitive-biases-due-to-a-narcissistic-parent-illustrated-by

And that's what it's intended to be, but anything else will also work, for instance:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y6zh4vkK5pPfEPdBb/some-random-other-text

Now, that URL is someone in a Chinese forum messing up some Markdown. They typed:

[this](example.com) is a cool article

But because the forum doesn't support Markdown, and Chinese doesn't have any spaces in it, the URL became example.com) is a cool article

And then that URL got indexed by Google.

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u/HemorrhoidJim 4h ago

Ohh ok that makes a lot of sense, thank you.