Jimmy Wales
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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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That's one of the reasons that you do see some collaboration on fiction and things like that.
But it's much harder because fiction could be anything.
Yeah.
There's a few techniques that we use that make sense to me, you know, early on, which is we call it going meta, stepping up one level.
So rather than trying to decide in a controversial area, what is the truth with a capital T, instead you characterize the debate.
You explain like, oh, you know, this is one view.
Here's another view.
I always give the example, if you imagine a kind and thoughtful Catholic priest and a kind and thoughtful Planned Parenthood activist, they're never going to agree about abortion.
But because I've said they're kind and thoughtful, they can work together to say, well, let's explain the debate to people.
And so let's sort of talk about it in a way that different people can understand.
And in fact, the Wikipedia entry on this is quite good, and it's very balanced.
And you can sort of say, oh, okay, like, here's the different perspectives.
And, you know, it's very, the Catholic Church position is this, and the Pope has said that, and critics have responded thus, and it starts to sound like a Wikipedia entry.
But that's really, when we're at our best, that's how we're doing it.
You know, I always say it has two purposes.
One is the epistemological or knowledge purpose, i.e.,
When I go to an encyclopedia, I don't want to hear just one side of the story.
I want to understand all the sides and what's the debate about.
But also from a social perspective, it makes it possible for people who strongly disagree to work together.
Like you can go, OK, right.
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