[lit-ideas] Re: Wikipedia
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:03:30 -0700
National Public Radio in the U.S. had an interview with the person who started Wikipedia,
and it was an interesting interview. He's proposing a new operational definition of
"truth:" Something is "true" if people stop making corrections to it.
This would guarantee truthiness.
But there's a different problem with Wikipedia, and all of these systems for capturing
knowlege. It creates a sense that we have knowledge. But there are many things that don't
fit into Wikipedia, and we end up with "well, it's not in there, so it doesn't exist."
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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