#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 200 minutes

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(05:10) - Origin story of Wikipedia
(11:14) - Design of Wikipedia
(18:07) - Number of articles on Wikipedia
(24:18) - Wikipedia pages for living persons
(45:11) - ChatGPT
(58:42) - Wikipedia's political bias
(1:04:46) - Conspiracy theories
(1:17:51) - Facebook
(1:26:09) - Twitter
(1:46:45) - Building Wikipedia
(2:01:18) - Wikipedia funding
(2:12:38) - ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
(2:17:19) - Larry Sanger
(2:22:51) - Twitter files
(2:25:43) - Government and censorship
(2:40:07) - Adolf Hitler's Wikipedia page
(2:51:49) - Future of Wikipedia
(3:03:51) - Advice for young people
(3:11:13) - Meaning of life

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, one of, if not the most
0:07.2	impactful websites ever, expanding the collective knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom of human civilization.
0:16.3	And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description.
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0:33.1	our amazing team, we're always hiring good Alex Friedman.com slash hiring. And now friends,
0:38.0	onto the full arteries, as always, no ads in the middle. I try to make this interesting, but if you
0:42.6	must skip them, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff, maybe you will too.
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1:09.6	you fast it for 22-23 hours. You take in the smell and the sizzling sounds of deliciousness.
1:19.3	And I just think how grateful I am to have shelter, to have food, to have all this amazing
1:26.2	things that I can use that other brilliant people have created. It's awesome. This human civilization
1:32.8	we've built up. Well, we do a thing that we're good at and we, with that thing, help other people
1:39.6	and form this cohesive network of goodness. It's a beautiful thing, really.
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