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Posted by edward 12 hours ago

Humans will never again create a project quite like Wikipedia(www.economist.com)
467 points | 410 commentspage 6
Verdex 9 hours ago|
Humans will never again create a project like stonehenge.

Yeah, like my wrist watch beeps when it's the solstice, why would I carry all that rock?

Everyone believes that the people before them were morons and that the greats of their youth represent a golden age lost forever to the sands of time. It's almost like there isn't any reason to be teaching inductive proofs because they ain't applying it.

dguest 7 hours ago|
We'll get another stone age before you know it!
e12e 9 hours ago||
Without even reading the article - seems to ignore the probability of a reset of civilization through nuclear war, climate change, pandemic or a Gibson "jackpot".
bita_nidir 10 hours ago||
How many decades do we need to go back where the consensus on a wikipedesque project would be "Humans will never create anything like that!" ?
haunter 11 hours ago||
Not with this attitude.
1970-01-01 7 hours ago||
if you want to disprove it outright:

1. Sign up to https://citizendium.org/wiki/Help:Index/Join

2. Create or update anything

3. Done

danjc 7 hours ago||
Wikipedia PR campaign much?
sheerun 9 hours ago||
"project like Wikipedia" is so vague I'm sure it is already being written
sheerun 9 hours ago||
Is Wikipedia about sharing knowledge, or do I miss something
AndyMcConachie 11 hours ago||
These are also the geniuses who thought Fukuyama was right when he declared the end of history.
intrasight 11 hours ago|
The comcept of the end of history, including Fukuyama's thesis, is an interesting intellectual topic, and I would argue that it's become even more interesting and relevant with the threat that AI could become.
tzury 9 hours ago|
the phrase 'Humans will never again...' is just enough to signal one not to continue reading anything in this article.
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