Jimmy Wales
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Okay.
We better start there because otherwise, who knows?
We might actually agree on the actual number.
You just think there's 40 million a year and I think there's 4,000 a year.
And so suddenly it's, no, hold on.
There's...
Forty seven thousand.
And you might go, oh, well, that's not as high as I thought.
And I'm like, oh, that's a lot more than I thought.
And then we suddenly are like, oh, OK, fine.
And we can all fall into that trap.
you know, where we've heard one side of the story and we're like, oh, okay, well now I have a view on that.
And then it's like, oh, oh, I didn't even have the facts right.
So like I came to a judgment about what we should do based on incorrect information.
Nobody likes that.
Like I don't think anybody likes that.
And actually sometimes I've had journalists who are like, are you sure?
Like people really want to believe.
I'm like, no, nobody wants to make a decision based on false information.
Like you end up doing the wrong thing and feeling like an idiot.