David_Gerard comments on Absolute Authority - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 19 January 2011 12:37:28PM 1 point [-]

In the world of the unenlightened ones, there is authority and un-authority. What can be trusted, can be trusted; what cannot be trusted, you may as well throw away. There are good sources of information and bad sources of information.

This is pretty much the standard argument against Wikipedia. It fails to address the question of "what's it for?"