Jimmy Wales


Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales: "You Can’t Ban Blockchain. It’s Math!"

Published on Jun 6, 2018

We interviewed Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at Blockshow Berlin about all things crypto.
 

Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia | Lex Fridman Podcast #385

Jun 19, 2023

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia.

Outline:

0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Origin story of Wikipedia
6:51 - Design of Wikipedia
13:44 - Number of articles on Wikipedia
19:55 - Wikipedia pages for living persons
40:48 - ChatGPT
54:19 - Wikipedia's political bias
1:00:23 - Conspiracy theories
1:13:28 - Facebook
1:21:46 - Twitter
1:42:22 - Building Wikipedia
1:56:55 - Wikipedia funding
2:08:15 - ChatGPT vs Wikipedia
2:12:56 - Larry Sanger
2:18:28 - Twitter files
2:21:20 - Government and censorship
2:35:44 - Adolf Hitler's Wikipedia page
2:47:26 - Future of Wikipedia
2:59:29 - Advice for young people
3:06:50 - Meaning of life
 
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