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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You just think, oh, nice, normal people, you know.
And, you know, usually people are pretty quiet in an elevator.
But if anything, you get...
stuck suddenly, you know, the elevator stops and everybody kind of nervously chuckles, but not because they're afraid of the others.
They're like, oh gosh, how long are we going to be in here and all of that.
And, you know, we do know, you know, that most people are basically decent and nice, the people we work with and so on.
I mean, a few of them are very annoying, but the number of people who are actually malicious is really quite small.
And we know that.
And so we do trust people generally.
We trust people all the time.
I mean, there's simple examples like,
Every time you get in a car and drive down the road, you trust that the people around you aren't going to just veer into you for no reason.
We don't think people are murderous maniacs.
But one of the things that has happened to us, and there's a lot of different reasons for it, but certainly in
in our political climate and so on, there is a real breakdown of trust.
And, you know, I blame social media for a lot of that.
Certainly, you know, if you go on to Twitter, I mean, X,
You know, you very quickly get the idea, wow, the general public is full of absolutely crazy screaming maniacs and they're really horrible to each other and so forth.
And what you don't realize or it's easy to forget is like, oh, no, the reason you're seeing those particular people is that the algorithm is promoting them and the algorithm is promoting them.
Because they create engagement and debate and argument and anger and so on, which keeps you on the website.
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