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Relevant article and discussion from SSC today: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1e01b7k/reliable_sources_how_wikipedia_admin_david_gerard/ htt
by mistermann 2y ago
Relevant article and discussion from SSC today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1e01b7k/reliable_sources_how_wikipedia_admin_david_gerard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1e01b7k/rel...
Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture, which makes reading conversations about alleged instances of the phenomenon very fun if you're into human psychology from a more meta perspective.
You'd think we'd eventually realize this after a century or so and rise above the nonsense, but propaganda is too powerful I guess?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press
- tivert 2y ago> Fwiw: all governments engage in propaganda, and people are typically biased towards that produced by their own country/culture Honestly, probably all people engage in propaganda. IMHO, that impulse is the raw fuel for crowdsourced knowledge sites like Wikipedia: people are motivated to edit it to make it conform to their personal bias. Their "solution" to that is to force people to appeal to "reliable sources" (authorities) that reflect their bias instead of injecting it directly, but just shifts the problem a little bit. > You'd think we'd eventually realize this after a century or so and rise above the nonsense, but propaganda is too powerful I guess? Bias and self-serving hypocrisy are tendencies that are too powerful.
- hindsightbias 2y agoI wonder if there’s a wiki written by the losers in history.
- slater 2y ago[flagged]