Marius comments on [SEQ RERUN] Politics is the Mind-Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Marius 30 April 2011 01:28:28PM 3 points [-]

Oh, I certainly agree with this. I'd just trace it back to Wikipedia's roots - and I suspect that as fewer people are familiar with Britannica, Wikipedia will lose that more and more.

Comment author: David_Gerard 30 April 2011 02:42:37PM 4 points [-]

I suspect that as fewer people are familiar with Britannica, Wikipedia will lose that more and more.

That's ... a thought on Wikipedia's future that hadn't occurred to me before. You can see it already, of course. Even just "We're here to write an encyclopedia" requires a prior notion of an encyclopedia other than what you're already doing. But then there's anecdotes of kids already saying "encyclopedia? Is that like Wikipedia?" I wonder how Wikipedia will self-define.