#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this
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Wikipedia: https://donate.wikimedia.org WT.Social:
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https://medium.com/@lexfridman OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for
the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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