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Jimmy Wales

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And, you know, in a number of cases, so this actually speaks to a slightly broader phenomenon, which is there are a number of cases where there is no one word that can get consensus.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And in the body of an article, that's usually okay because we can explain the whole thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

You can come away with an understanding of why each side wants to use a certain word.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But there are some aspects, like the page has to have a title.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So there's that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Same thing with certain things like photos.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's like, well, there's different photos, which one's best?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

A lot of different views on that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But at the end of the day, you need the lead photo because there's one slot for a lead photo.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Categories is another one.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So at one point, I have no idea if it's in there today, but I don't think so.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I was listed in, you know, American entrepreneurs, fine, American atheists.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

And I said, hmm, that doesn't feel right to me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Like, just personally, it's true.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

I mean, I wouldn't disagree with the objective fact of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But when you click the category and you see sort of,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

a lot of people who are, you might say, American atheist activists, because that's their big issue.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

So Madeline Murray O'Hare or various famous people who, Richard Dawkins, who make it a big part of their public argument and persona.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

But that's not true of me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

It's just like my private personal belief.