Yes, but what would it matter if 200 billion hours was spent refining wikipedia? There is only so much knowledge you can pump into it. I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
So what else could we also accomplish? I didn’t read it as ‘wikipedia could be 2,000 times better’, but ‘we could have 2,000 wikipedia-grade resources’. (Which is probably also not true—we’d run out of low-hanging fruit. Still.)
A somewhat related, impactful graph.
Of course, human effort and interest is far from perfectly fungible. But your broader point retains a lot of validity.
Yes, but what would it matter if 200 billion hours was spent refining wikipedia? There is only so much knowledge you can pump into it. I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
So what else could we also accomplish? I didn’t read it as ‘wikipedia could be 2,000 times better’, but ‘we could have 2,000 wikipedia-grade resources’. (Which is probably also not true—we’d run out of low-hanging fruit. Still.)