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- Build a human-level AI by compressing Wikipedia http://prize.hutter1.net/ 4 comments
- Wikipedia Deploys AI to Expand Its Ranks of Human Editors http://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-human-editors/ 6 comments
- Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.UwTuA3gRq8M 60 comments
- Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/wikipedia-human-language-wikifunctions.html 103 comments
- Turkey's Wikipedia block violates human rights, high court rules https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/26/turkish-court-wikipedia-block-lifted 8 comments
- Cognitive Distortions — How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence. https://quillette.com/2022/07/18/cognitive-distortions/ 44 comments cogsci
- Wikipedia-sized math proof is too big for humans http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwl-ukjdvjv 11 comments science
- "Wikipedia can never become a complete, accurate encyclopedia of human knowledge." http://shii.org/knows/shii%27s_solution_to_the_problem_of_wikipedia 8 comments reddit.com
- Wikipedia as of today has more than SIX MILLION articles in English. Biggest database of human history available absolutely free. https://twitter.com/lukestateson/status/1220715899981914113 47 comments opensource
- Wikipedia takes Turkey to European human rights court https://www.ft.com/content/ff2bf0d0-7d5a-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560 35 comments europe
- ‘Encryption is a human right’: Wikipedia aims to lock out NSA http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-encryption-security-nsa-990/ 26 comments crypto
- x/post from TIL: Wikipedia tells me only 76% of human and chimp DNA are alike enough to be align-able. Could someone explain that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolutionary_genetics#Sequence_divergence_between_humans_and_apes 17 comments askscience
- Reading this, I couldn't escape the suspicion that wikipedia editors expect aliens to learn about humans through wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/humans 3 comments reddit.com
- Turkey's Wikipedia block violates human rights, high court rules https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/26/turkish-court-wikipedia-block-lifted 77 comments europe
- Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals The Most Influential People In 35 Centuries Of Human History https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/wikipedia-mining-algorithm-reveals-the-most-influential-people-in-35-centuries-of-human-history-ede5ef827b76 3 comments science
- Italian wiretapping bill goes against Universal Declaration of Human Rights, shuts down Wikipedia. http://computersight.com/computers/wikipedia-is-being-shutted-down-by-italian-government/ 20 comments europe
- Top 100 Most Visited Articles on Wikipedia - 'The Beatles', fair enough, but 'Human penis size'? http://techxav.com/2009/08/31/wikipedia/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act on Wikipedia. How is anyone in doubt after reading this? Was "legal" Disclosure of non-human intelligence when it was signed into law by President Joe Biden on December 22, 2023? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_Disclosure_Act 6 comments aliens
- Wikipedia’s entry on Human Rights in the reported new owner of WWE, Saudi Arabia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#Torture 25 comments squaredcircle
- List of Indian states and territories by Human Development Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/list_of_indian_states_and_territories_by_human_development_index 90 comments india
- The Wikipedia and the Death of Archaeology: a perfect record of how humanity understands itself at any moment in time http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061030173044439 4 comments reddit.com
- AI robot with role at United Nation's could be the threat to humanity as the bible foretold, Wikipedia articles and news reports help demonstrate. https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/krw759/ai_robot_with_role_at_united_nations_could_be_the/ 14 comments artificial
- Turkey’s Wikipedia ban violates human rights, high court rules. The ban is decided to be lifted effective immediately. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/26/turkish-court-wikipedia-block-lifted 34 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia-size maths proof too big for humans to check: if no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwj4n4wgwkf 154 comments philosophy
- humanity at it's lowest point - in sudan - does anyone know more history about the events circulating this photograph? [wikipedia pic] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:dying_sudanese_man_eating_cow_dung-_2.jpg#summary 15 comments reddit.com
- Nick Carr: Please stop talking about the "sum of all human knowledge" as you delete articles from Wikipedia http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/knowledge_and_u.php 2 comments reddit.com
- Wikipedia is taking Turkey to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over a two-year ban imposed on the site in the country. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48386940?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c207p54mdq3t/turkey&link_location=live-reporting-story 290 comments worldnews
- Inside the Plan to Print All of Wikipedia and Send It to the Moon - Wikipedia will be the second of three ‘libraries’ sent to outer space. That way, even if humans don’t make it, a comprehensive record of our existence will survive for millennia. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pavd37/inside-the-plan-to-print-all-of-wikipedia-and-send-it-to-the-moon 23 comments space
- If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwjqh4wv9so 131 comments math
- If no human can check a proof of a theorem, does it really count as mathematics? That's the intriguing question raised by the latest computer-assisted proof. It is as large as the entire content of Wikipedia, making it unlikely that will ever be checked by a human being. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html#.uwjqh4wv9so 370 comments programming
- Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With China’s Censorship "Wales said he would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship. Wikipedia will always refuse to comply with Gov't requests to restrict information, calling access to knowledge and education a human right." http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/09/wikipedia-co-founder-refuses-to-comply-with-chinas-censorhip/ 1000 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia Boosts Security after XKeyscore Revelations. Co-founder says: "I challenge the rest of the industry to join us. Encryption is a human rights issue." https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/05-2 74 comments worldnews
- Wikipedia Boosts Security after XKeyscore Revelations. Co-founder says: "I challenge the rest of the industry to join us. Encryption is a human rights issue." https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/05-2 42 comments privacy
- ‘Encryption is a human right’: Wikipedia aims to lock out NSA "Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping" http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-encryption-security-nsa-990/ 44 comments politics
- ‘Encryption is a human right’: Wikipedia aims to lock out NSA "Wikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping" http://rt.com/news/wikipedia-encryption-security-nsa-990/ 288 comments technology
- Hey look, the so-called "human rights activist" Nitsana Darshan-Leitner who is suing Jimmy Carter for $5 mil for "criticism of Israel" has a Wikipedia page that reads like a snazzy press release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nitsana_darshan-leitner 6 comments politics