Wikipedia

4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 11, 2018 by Adam Robinson · said 33 times in 19 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Dec 11, 2018 positive
Insight
Robinson: Wikipedia extracts immense uncompensated economic value by offering intrinsic worth
“Wikipedia extracts economic value from people without compensating them. It offers them the opportunity to extract intrinsic value, intrinsic worth from the activity.”
Adam Robinson Dec 11, 2018 ▶ 30:52 #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
May 14, 2019
Assertion Supported
Post-Snowden Studies Showed Measurable Drops in Sensitive Wikipedia Search Queries
“Right after Snowden, there were two studies that were really interesting. One is people stopped searching terrorism related terms because presumably they feel that they might've been investigated if they searched. So the terms like Al Qaeda and stuff like that…”
Gabriel Weinberg May 14, 2019 ▶ 29:20 Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
Apr 5, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Srinivasan: Putting Scientific Literature On-Chain Has Wikipedia-Level Complexity
“What I'm describing here, by the way, is of the complexity of Wikipedia, but not greater than that. You're basically talking about taking the scientific literature, putting it into truly reproducible research format and putting it on chain such that it's perma…”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 34:33 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
May 16, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kelly: Bottom-up neural nets will never achieve full AI without top-down control
“That bottom up Will take you much further than you thought you could go, but will never take you all the way to where you want to go. So Wikipedia, this classic bottom-up thing, over time, there's a more and more top-down editorial control, and eventually, ov…”
Kevin Kelly May 16, 2023 ▶ 59:32 Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living
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