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by Imnimo 1319 days ago
Surely expanding the index is not the only sort of change that needs to occur over time, though. Like for the example "My two favorite blogs are SlateStarCodex and", the model not only needs to have an up-to-date list of blog URLs in the index, it also needs to have an up-to-date understanding of what SlateStarCodex is. If SlateStarCodex changes to AstralCodexTen after the model has been trained, does that prompt still work?

EDIT: It looks like the answer is "no". Substituting in AstralCodexTen gives a bunch of weird occult and esoteric blogs, not rationalist blogs. These are the top results:

https://www.arcturiantools.com/

https://secretsunarchives.blogspot.com/

https://skepticaloccultist.com/

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Or maybe it's because the new name is less relevant and not used as much anyways? If you want to hardcode in these updated names and make judgements about what is REALLY relevant you should stay on Google
> needs to have an up-to-date understanding of what SlateStarCodex is

I don't think that is how this works.

This works by looking a web text where it talks about SlateStarCodex and seeing what URLs are associated with that text (ie, what it links to).

If the name is changed this will break completely.