Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | Lex Fridman Podcast #385

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TRANSCRIPT:
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Jimmy’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:47 – Origin story of Wikipedia
6:51 – Design of Wikipedia
13:44 – Number of articles on Wikipedia
19:55 – Wikipedia pages for living persons
40:48 – ChatGPT
54:19 – Wikipedia’s political bias
1:00:23 – Conspiracy theories
1:13:28 – Facebook
1:21:46 – Twitter
1:42:22 – Building Wikipedia
1:56:55 – Wikipedia funding
2:08:15 – ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
2:12:56 – Larry Sanger
2:18:28 – Twitter files
2:21:20 – Government and censorship
2:35:44 – Adolf Hitler’s Wikipedia page
2:47:26 – Future of Wikipedia
2:59:29 – Advice for young people
3:06:50 – Meaning of life

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Written by Lex Fridman