I think it’s unrelated; David Gerard is mean to rationalists and spends lots of time editing articles about LW/ACX, but doesn’t torch articles about math stuff. The reason these articles are bad is because people haven’t put much effort into them.
Ah, in a parallel universe without David Gerard the obvious next step would be to create a WikiProject Rationality. In this universe, this probably wouldn’t end well? Coordination outside Wikipedia is also at risk of accusation of brigading or something.
Eh, wasn’t Arbital meant to be that, or something like it? Anyway, due to network effects I don’t see how any new wiki-like project could ever reasonably compete with Wikipedia.
Well, it seems like this story might have to do something with it?: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3XNinGkqrHn93dwhY/reliable-sources-the-story-of-david-gerard
I don’t know to what extent that is, though; otherwise, I agree with you.
I think it’s unrelated; David Gerard is mean to rationalists and spends lots of time editing articles about LW/ACX, but doesn’t torch articles about math stuff. The reason these articles are bad is because people haven’t put much effort into them.
Ah, in a parallel universe without David Gerard the obvious next step would be to create a WikiProject Rationality. In this universe, this probably wouldn’t end well? Coordination outside Wikipedia is also at risk of accusation of brigading or something.
In this universe it would end just fine! Go ahead and start one. Looks like someone else is creating a Discord.
Brigading would be if you called attention to one particular article’s talk page and told people “Hey, go make this particular edit to this article.”
Eh, wasn’t Arbital meant to be that, or something like it? Anyway, due to network effects I don’t see how any new wiki-like project could ever reasonably compete with Wikipedia.
I think Arbital was supposed to do that, but basically what you said.
https://discord.gg/skNZzaAjsC