From a 2014 Wikipediocracy thread which I started: "And this reminds me of one of the most crank-ish transhumanists I've ever run across: Eliezer Yudkowsky..... "Yes, kids, that's right; Yudkowsky runs LessWrong , a forum where Singulatarians hang out, and rave at each other incoherently. ...

He's the philosopher who, in 2003, put out the serious idea that we live in a giant computer simulation. (Before that it was kicked around by science fiction writers like Philip Dick, but only their fans took it seriously.) Unquestionably Bostrom is a smart fellow, but there are some things I'd like...

I bet r/the_donald is snarling about this right now--and organizing "raids" on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TinyTrumps/

The Register had a way out last year, but it involved the ideas of Andreas Kolbe; namely either pay editors for their work (while ending anonymity at Wikipedia), or rig Wikipedia so it can be a source for infoboxes even though that will help along the "citogenesis" problem. And you will n...

Reminds me of the many ways to debone a chicken real damn fast:
https://youtu.be/WHmyAoY-HrA?t=284
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfY0lrdXar8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTCI64jLFaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz7be13Ov5w

Anyone care to place a bet that the High Oompa Loompa will either invade a Middle Eastern country, or a major terrorist attack will occur on U.S. soil, within the next six months? And that a surge of blind patriotism will raise his approval figures? I would not be surprised if Mr. Bannon is trying t...

m created in April 2013 by m And never repaired. He was blocked as a sockpuppet but no one gave a shit about the obvious paid content he did. In fact you can go thru this category and find ample paid editing. m According to most Wikipedia content, nothing bad ever happens in the jewelry industry; wh...

All correct. Jimbo set the tone after Larry was pushed out--and Jimbo wanted BAD people in charge. He got them. Wanna be an administrator, in a SERIOUS way? Move to London and befriend Jimmy. Suck his little ego deep and hard for a couple of years and he'll hand great power over to you (on that mise...

Thanks for reposting that. I might also point this out: m There are 1,275 (as of now) administrator accounts (active and otherwise), 577 of them active (as of 2017-02-27). FYI: English Wikipedia has not had so few active administrators since 2005. Things are REALLY bad. Dozens more either quit or ar...