#385 – Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/jimmy-wales-transcript

EPISODE LINKS: Jimmy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales Jimmy's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales Donate to Wikipedia: https://donate.wikimedia.org WT.Social: https://wt.social/

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OUTLINE: Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (05:10) - Origin story of Wikipedia (11:14) - Design of Wikipedia (18:07) - Number of articles on Wikipedia (24:18) - Wikipedia pages for living persons (45:11) - ChatGPT (58:42) - Wikipedia's political bias (1:04:46) - Conspiracy theories (1:17:51) - Facebook (1:26:09) - Twitter (1:46:45) - Building Wikipedia (2:01:18) - Wikipedia funding (2:12:38) - ChatGPT vs Wikipedia (2:17:19) - Larry Sanger (2:22:51) - Twitter files (2:25:43) - Government and censorship (2:40:07) - Adolf Hitler's Wikipedia page (2:51:49) - Future of Wikipedia (3:03:51) - Advice for young people (3:11:13) - Meaning of life