Comments on: Wikipocalypse http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: fotrkd http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8671 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:50:41 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8671 @ admin

But if you were trying to belittle human “everyday common sense knowledge” it would look a lot like Cyc.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8669 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:39:29 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8669 If you were trying to think up the research approach that was least likely to contribute to AI, it would look a lot like Cyc. An AI, at the minimum, must learn — which is pretty much the exact opposite of encyclopedic pre-programming.

]]> By: fotrkd http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8668 Sun, 21 Jul 2013 08:17:52 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8668 Cyc (from “encyclopedia”)

]]> By: Mark Warburton http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8588 Sat, 20 Jul 2013 01:15:38 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8588 Haha. That’s Alanis morrisette ‘ironic’ right back at me!

]]> By: fotrkd http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8573 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:36:05 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8573 [W]hite male computer nerds… Once again, we see that spontaneous social order and common law are reliant on a shared ethnicity, language, and culture.

Is this not something to do with the fact that Wikipedia is on a computer, primarily Western and based on European cultural Enlightenment ideals? For a different project, such shared qualities may not be so important.

You also need to decide if Wikipedia-quality is good enough.

]]> By: Scharlach http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8568 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:10:48 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8568 90+% of WIkipedia contributors are white male computer nerds. Probably middle-aged white male computer nerds.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8293217/Why-Wikipedias-editors-are-mostly-male.html

Once again, we see that spontaneous social order and common law are reliant on a shared ethnicity, language, and culture.

]]> By: Scharlach http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8567 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:07:34 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8567 Putting Wikipedia’s servers in space or somehow otherwise trying to figure out how to get its data off-world.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8555 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:46:30 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8555 This whole Internet begging culture is a sign of something not working.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8554 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:45:18 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8554 I’m not sure that I’m quite getting the ‘it’.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/wikipocalypse/#comment-8544 Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:46:54 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=799#comment-8544 Yes, despite some serious problem areas, it’s vastly less corrupt than the population it draws from. Given reasonable expectations of total depravity, its mechanisms work pretty well.

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