Based on 218 businesses audited.
Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands Reputation: Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky.net)
Yudkowsky.net is an authentic intellectual archive that succeeds through extreme information density while failing every standard technical metric for authority and trust. It is a rare example of a site with high substance that ignores the theatre of credibility entirely. The BS score reflects technical neglect and a lack of structured proof, not a lack of underlying truth.
Blogs, Influencers & Personal Brands Reputation: Eliezer Yudkowsky (yudkowsky.net)
The website perfectly fits the category of Personal Brand and Blog, functioning as a centralized repository for the author’s research and writing. It subverts influencer norms by prioritizing technical substance over commercial engagement or brand partnerships.
“The BS score is driven by the Identity and Authority pillar (11 points), specifically the complete absence of schema data and technical meta-information. The Trust and Proof score (7 points) is elevated by the lack of direct proof links in the structured crawl, which is a common forensic indicator of unsubstantiated claims even if links are mentioned in text. Information Density and Semantic Coherence are nearly optimal, indicating that the site's content is as substantive as its headings suggest.”