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No, Wikipedia is a cancer. https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-digital-maoism-the-hazards-of-the-new-online-collectivism https://www.edge.org/conver

• hooverd 4y ago
  Digital Maoism? Can you point me to the Jimmy Wales mass line?
• ideamotor 4y ago
  Just a bunch of made up arguments against made up arguments. Should have stuck with math.
• nicopappl 4y ago
  The essay you linked doesn't at all convey that Wikipedia is cancer, in fact it does somewhat the opposite. A shame the title is so inflammatory and doesn't at all reflect the content. It's in fact a seriously amazing essay, thank you for sharing it here. The 2006 Jaron Lanier essay, in addition with the 13 responses (including from Cory Doctorow and Jimmy Wales) is a golden nugget of internet history, and a snapshot of what people believed would be the future of the internet (oh boy, with 15 years of insight, there is quite a lot to say)
  • leephillips 4y ago
    Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a widespread apotheosis of the hive mind. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.