Everybody loves Wikipedia, the surprisingly serious encyclopedia and the last gasp of Old Internet idealism!
(90 seconds later)
We regret to inform you that people write credulous shit about “AI” on Wikipedia as if that is morally OK.
Both of these are somewhat less bad than they were when I first noticed them, but they’re still pretty bad. I am puzzled at how the latter even exists. I had thought that there were rules against just making a whole page about a neologism, but either I’m wrong about that or the “rules” aren’t enforced very strongly.
Ah! Further fucking around leads to a search query for all instances of
lesswrong.comin page source:https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=~lesswrong.com&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&searchToken=9u6c55in4yuoezpsk08h0czmf
Via the above search, here’s some made-up bullshit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement
And there’s a random LessWrong reference in the goddamn introduction here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory