Wikipedia notes, other
Wikipedia co-founder says site has liberal bias — here’s his plan to fix that at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffSCHKwLqeY
https://x.com/RichardKCollin2/status/1976000327859175728
I am RichardKCollin2, The Internet Foundation on X. I have followed the site and groups since before they began. The Internet Foundation was started on 23 Jul 1998. I have worked on making the Wikipedia materials on the Internet more accessible and usable in other forms. But when checking the details and errors, gaps and biases, out of date materials and mistakes, lack of translations and tools and educational assistance – it is easier on most every topic – to simply start from scratch. The editors have no say, the people taking the donations have no say, and the many people and groups scraping and using the material are not helping in a coherent way. I consider it “not impossible” but found other ways. There are many other higher priorities on the Internet and in the world. These groups all speak different value languages, to retrain all of them to one mindset is extremely costly. They do not want to change, get donations whether they change or not. Now the AI groups depend on it so no incentive to change.
Grok comments: https://x.com/i/grok/share/nKxvkjIygt3vHhXl5XlvEqqsP
Answering a question where someone uses “a civilization” to describe a group having complexity.
You can simply say “group”. “Civilization” was meant to convey the complexity of real groups. But for the Internet Foundation I simply say “group”. There are about 360 Million domains, 5.6 Billion users, exabytes of data, 8.2 Billion humans connected to the stuff on the Internet. I have been working with it all every day for 27 years. And “group” works well enough. Once profiling and detailing “any group” has become a habit and a professional tool. Groups all work for their selves mostly, and many young people never learned “for all humans”. It is not taught, though these stories might help.
Alien Forgemaster Called It Impossible Steel—He Smiled: ‘Damascus. My Uncle Makes Them on Weekends’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA64rLPpXM4
I took the GRE engineering test and made an almost perfect score. The question I got wrong was related to the temperature of iron which you don’t run into if you skip shop and practical classes for “college prep”. My uncle worked as a blacksmith when he was young, but he ended up a professor of mathematical physics. Really enjoyed this story. I never tried blacksmithing but I did carve stone and wood for about 40 years. Swinging a heavy metal mallet to strike a chisel for 8 to 12 hours a day is a pleasant way to spend time. I would miss the chisel and hit my hand once in a while. So I learned to completely block pain, no matter its intensity. Never broke any bones but figure my hand bones are kind of folded like that steel. Broken and healed countless times.
The beast Cubs Cried in the Cold Den — The Human Built Them a Fire, Then Slept Outside Herself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F6JwMlR2bQ
This applies to Earth where “people who care” get better results. Whole countries now “do not care” and “do not listen to and care” about citizens. Whole large corporations with 100s of Millions of subscribers, have no clue they ought to be treating them as valued individuals and customers and members of a valued community. Whole universities treat everyone coldly rather than caring about their individual needs, futures, hopes and potential. Actually listen, actually care. The world is filled with cold, faceless uncaring systems when what is needed is empathy, caring, listening and attentive response.
The Alien General Laughed at the Human Waitress’s File—Until His Officers Voted Against the Pilot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTzQCSvy10k
If governments and corporations and large groups of any size had people like Melody to help them listen – perhaps there would not be such oppression, greed and inefficiency as there is now. Much of this used to be handled by “courtesy”, “mutual respect”, “caring”, “empathy” But somehow business and politics turned cold and deaf and mean. Whole generations forgot how to be friendly, or never even saw it at all.
NASA let me test my weird chain theory in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtZaP8VMv0c
It ought to be possible to model it. And, using acoustic or electromagnetic fields in zero g or on earth to control it, and measure precisely. Playing with fingers and loops is child-like and organic but not measurement. “holds it shape” is likely if the chain is absolutely uniform and the tiniest motions and vibrations monitored precisely. You could make a “chain” or larger robot beads linked with instrumented connections (wires or fields or strings) each bead or node with 3 axis accelerometer and gyro (and 3 axis magnetometer) and measure the position, velocity, accelerations, forces of all nodes in a “chain”. Not impossible. “look at and play” is not measurement.
