Jimmy Wales
speaker
6,110 appearances
12 recordings
11 series
first heard Jun 2023
last heard 21 Jun
Jimmy Wales’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, lovely.
I mean, if you think about, you know, if you jump into an elevator...
with eight other people, and then the power goes out and you're stuck in the elevator with eight random people, you don't look like which one of you is going to stab me.
You just think, oh, these are probably perfectly nice people.
I would say if you get together a thousand people, probably about ten of them will be quite annoying.
but the number who are actually malicious is very very small that most people have good intent most people are trying to get through life and have some fun and look after their kids and all that kind of good stuff and it's easy to forget that like when we live in a society that's having a real breakdown in trust you know if you go if you spend too much time on social media particularly like
x which is really really super toxic um you'll get the idea that most people are actually screaming lunatics who are idiots um and what's happening there is that the algorithms are promoting the sort of screaming idiots who are angry and lunatic and in fact if you're really good at it and quite clever at it you might even become president of the united states but um
But that's not the real world.
That's not what most people are like.
Most people are actually very nice.
And we see this at Wikipedia.
In Wikipedia, even today, after all these years, you can go to 99% of the pages in Wikipedia
without logging in, you can click the edit link at the top of the page, make a change, hit save, it goes live immediately.
I mean, that's insane, right?
But it works because when we look at those edits that come from, we call them anonymous IP addresses,
They aren't as good as the edits of experienced Wikipedians who've learned the rules and who've been practicing and learning.
But on net, they are positive contributions, even from people who just randomly go, I'll click edit and I'll do something.
Those people tend to vandalize more.
They tend to misbehave more.
They add something and didn't put a reference and things like that.
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