Oly Sourbut
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They enable this kind of a bit more trust of a pool of experts rather than experts.
mere single expert.
It's harder for a pool of experts to kind of collude to forward all of their interests at once, whereas perhaps an individual could kind of distort things subtly in a way which is less traceable.
So Wikipedia has this property where at least most pages are contributed to by some number of experts at once.
But yeah, it's difficult.
I think the power law of contribution is probably here to stay in a big way.
It might well be that for many things that the largest contributors may come to be AI systems or outputs, which are largely AI generated.
And you'd hope that they were well scaffolded and sufficiently scrutable and legible that their outputs may be auditable after the fact.
You can look at what sources went into this and all this kind of thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It remains the case that even with these steep power laws of contribution, things like Wikipedia are to some extent a gold standard of public sense-making.
Wikipedia suffers from some of the similar problems I've already identified for kind of what you might call kind of legacy epistemic systems in that there it's slow.
Um, it's, it, it struggled just kind of update in real time.
That's, that's kind of difficult.
So for many topics, that's absolutely fine.
If it's like, you know, historical biography of, or something like that, there's not going to be much new evidence every minute or something is there, but for other things, it's important to kind of keep up to date and systems like Wikipedia just can't really do that very well right now.
Um,
But there are various kinds of incremental ways we can imagine improving that.
In fact, one of the other visions we have for an epistemic stack is to be a kind of foundation for an improved Wikipedia, perhaps literally Wikipedia itself, kind of ingesting from the more kind of structured metadata annotated epistemic structures of citations and evidence and so on, but also discourse.
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