Oly Sourbut

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Future of Life Institute Podcast · How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut) · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

Because Wikipedia at its best on a given topic

It's not necessarily, so if something's kind of sealed, like done, it's known science, it's like we're confident on the whole that something is the case, then the Wikipedia page for that is just going to describe that situation.

And then it might describe some kind of history.

So it is, in an ideal case, a Wikipedia page is making legible the provenance structure, like how did we get to this knowledge in the first place?

There's a bit of history.

Maybe it describes some of the characters as well.

I don't know.

And then it's describing kind of the kind of concluded, a summary of the concluded position on this topic.

If it's not a done deal, if it's like an active debate right now, again, an ideal case, the Wikipedia page for that will present

a selection, ideally all sides of that debate, which have some degree of merit, and why those camps are coming to that position, and what their evidence is, and why the other camps are coming to the other positions, and so on, and where the remaining uncertainties are, and where there's maybe lacking evidence, and so on.

So in an ideal case, that Wikipedia-type format is able to encompass both solid science and active debate.

Yeah, for sure.

So whether it's kind of got this intermediate form of something like a Wikipedia page or whether actually you've just got the slightly more raw corpus, which is the claims, their evidence, their citations and so on, and the positions and the way that the discourse maps together, there's a bunch of structure there that you can imagine actually ingesting directly into a chatbot interface or directly into a Wikipedia-like view.

I actually, I tend to quite like reading Wikipedia.

It's often got, it's a nice kind of familiar format

I already mentioned that often I want to see a summary.

Then I want to see maybe something about how we got to that position.

Then I want to see, are there competing claims?

Are there areas of uncertainty?

And this kind of thing.

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