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Maybe it will be a shot in arm for Wikipedia to make some needed reforms.

Yeah, I guess you're right - came out last night while I was sleeping.

I hope so, but that would require of rolling back some changes they made that led to ideological biases, which would be fought tooth and nail.

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Grokipedia literally just came out a few hours ago. So this article was already in the can before they could even test it.

It's got some obvious bias right now, but some articles are already better than Wikipedia - for example on the origin of Covid. I'm not really going to trust either one of them for…

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It will get better. This is only version 0.1.

It's fine it this was some blog, but this is supposed to be "serious" journalism. It comes off as childish and unprofessional.

Calling people "Silicon Valley freaks" is really trashy.

Something similar that collects news from various sources, plus it adds social media context: https://truenorthnews.app/

Public policies were made (or justified) based on some of this research. People used this "settled science" to make consequential decisions. Stereotype threat for example was widel…

Those things were not done by awful people though - they all thought they were serving the public good. We only judge it as awful now because of the results. Nearly of these ideas …

Is anyone tracking how much damage to society bad social science has done? I imagine it's quite a bit.

THOUSANDS of young girls were sexually exploited for YEARS and the government did nothing about it because they didn't want to appear to be racist. There is no equivalence with any…

Personally, I would rate the grooming gangs scandal as one of the worse things that happened to a western nation in decades. It literally made me sick to stomach when I read the de…

> I started working with folks from the UK right at the start when social media really took off, and I personally think that what ails the UK is the same as what ails the world. To…

Healthcare coverage generally comes with any fulltime job. It's cheap for individuals (I pay about $150/month) but gets more expensive with families, which is a real problem. Most …

It's a social construct in the way that all categories are. The question is whether or not a category is useful. I'm saying there are genetic differences between groups, but our st…

Race is a social construct, but one loosely based on biological reality. As we unravel the mystery of human origins using ancient DNA, we are starting to get a better understanding…

Sorry, not my intent to flamebait. I'll drop it.

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How would you know when the problem is solved though? If you look at average earnings of groups and correct for IQ, the gap disappears. If you want all groups to score the same on …

Both things can be true. That fact is that some groups that were discriminated against now thrive, and some don't (even after trillions of dollars in public spending). That is why …