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i read a bit about that. i couldn't find quotes from the site employees saying they were trying to be wikipedia, so i didn't mention it because id have had to digress. but almost everyone who talked about the launch mentioned their weirdass card system for linking other articles, and that it was wikipedia like. and all the descriptions sounded AWFUL, like it would just be throwing useless rotating shit at you all the time
there's this: https://nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
especially amusing considering this, published only nine months after vox launched. not sure how much objective resource building the professional journalism would be buying you there, ezra
https://deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447/
ah but if you assume a perfectly spherical polity of uniform density in a vacuum at absolute zero,, klein will still be wrong
Ezra Klein so centrist, he could both-sides a Moebius strip
That is, an Ezra Klein bottle
isn't that what the youth use to make jenkem
yeah, it was so inept and un wikilike that you would hardly believe it, but they honestly thought it would compete.
At one point Yudkowsy raised money for Arbital, "an attempted successor to Wikipedia and/or Tumblr and/or peer review" Cw attempts to suck up to J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, John Paulson
Didn't one of the Arbital head honchos have a psychotic episode after writing unhinged rants about rationality dojos making superhumans?
well, seems like that didn't pan out, but I still have hope for my attempted successor to the automobile and/or trigonometry and/or Leonard Nimoy