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Jimmy Wales

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1952 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And point out potentially biased terms to rewrite it to be more neutral.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Now, it is a bit anodyne and it's a bit, you know, cliched.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So sometimes it just takes the spirit out of something that's actually not bad.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's just like, you know, poetic language.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And you're like, okay, that's not actually helping.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But in many cases, I think that sort of thing is quite interesting.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And I'm also interested in, you know...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Can you imagine where you feed in a Wikipedia entry and all the sources, and you say, help me find anything in the article that is not accurately reflecting what's in the sources.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And that doesn't have to be perfect.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It only has to be good enough to be useful to a community.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So if it scans an article and all the sources, and you say, oh, it came back with...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

10 suggestions, and seven of them were decent, and three of them it just didn't understand.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Well, actually, that's probably worth my time to do.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And it can help us really more quickly get good people to sort of review obscure entries and things like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Yeah, there's a famous webcomic that's titled Cytogenesis, which is about how somethingβ€”an error's in Wikipedia, and there's no source for it, but then a lazy journalist reads it and writes the source.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And then some helpful Wikipedian spots that it has no source, finds the source, and adds it to Wikipedia.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And voila, magic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

This happened to me once.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Well, it nearly happened.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

There was thisβ€”