The Rabbit Hole

I stopped editing Wikipedia years ago myself, after having quality edits reverted or vandalized by ideologically possessed basement dwellers with disproportionately more time on their hands. Wikipedia was and is inherently susceptible to ideological capture. This isn't a problem that will be solved within the scope of an information architecture that collapses vehemently held and diametrically opposed points of view into a single small text box. What comes after Wikipedia will be architected very differently. A post-Wikipedia encyclopedia will not enforce a single narrative, but rather support any plurality of perspectives and narratives that may differ even on epistemic and/or ontological grounds. An epistemic superposition, if you will. Reconciliation into a simplified single narrative will still be possible, using machine intelligence to collapse the superposition and stitch it into linear form. If it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it, higher education will increasingly consist of perceiving and examining the superposition. A post-Wikipedia encyclopedia will deploy a combination of mechanism design and machine intelligence built on top of a permissionless knowledge architecture that doesn't gatekeep who can edit what, but instead uses info finance to incentivize and signal boost quality contributions. (We are building the foundation for this at @ASIMOV_Protocol.)