About this episode
Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – Hexclad Cookware : https://hexclad.com/lex and use code LEX to get 10% off – Eight Sleep : https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings – House of Macadamias : https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order 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/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips SUPPORT & CONNECT: – Check out the sponsors above, it’s the best way to support this podcast – Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman – Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman – Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman 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