Re:Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:59PM
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If you are suggesting that those of pure heart have no agency, then you are at a cartoonish level of evilness. I'm talking Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Claudely.
Re:Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia
by larodi on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:14AM
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"Those of pure heart" - well who are these peoples precisely, and how is it that we know a heart to be of pure or not so pure quality. What makes a person of a good heart - not taking any meat or praying by the hour? Really, how does someone writing in Wikipedia immediately be rated good-hearted. This is childish level of black-and-white thinking, not sure what you meant by the evilness. And, no, we can not automatically rate all non-profit writing as a selfish or goodhearted by intent, sorry, this is just not true.
For the record: I do not consider myself evil, and I much appreciate what Wikipedia had to offer at zero cost for the reader.
in way perhaps similar flame wars to those here in HN so I can definitely feel the kick.
but the whole point is, if this whole energy which writes Wikipedia is funneled through flame wars - what a way to ti - tis an arena. Never though of it, and as arena it sure has a future. But as a source of truth that gets munched into models, well - super questionable, and also questionable if people still feel like going there (I do, tbh more than 40-50 times a month), but then I can also take focused resumes from GPTs.
So then the question is - if my text is to be projected through some biased multidimensional manifold filter, why do it? It probably keeps its value as the recordbook of humanity, perhaps revisions get their own blockchain, but also it looses all or most of direct human traffic.