Wikipedia
Reddit take
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Pros
- Cant worry too much, I just love the place
- Back in the day, I remember being told Wikipedia wasn't a reliable source because it was community edited, but my argument was it gave sources you could follow back to verify.
- Wikipedia: Smaller than you'd think once it's bundled up. I think the last dump of the English language site, including (admittedly low-res) images was only around 90GB.
- you should get hard drives and start archiving stuff on websites such as wikipedia, wikipedias other websites like wikibooks and wikiversity, Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, libretexts, MIT opencourseware, project Gutenberg, NASA im...
- I think it's a good set of knowledge to take into account kind of like Wikipedia or stack exchange, but don't just copy code word for word and drop it in there without vetting anything.
Cons
- Instead, one eventually gets a feel for when Wikipedia can be trusted, and when not. And precisely that feel is now going out of the window, because if there's anything LLMs excel at, it's selling bullshit as gold
- As is it's looking like Wikipedia might end up blocking UK residents, sites relating to substance misuse like drug rehab/alcohol etc get blocked.
Sentiment
9 positive (82%) · 1 mixed (9%) · 1 negative (9%)
Trust + time weighted score: +70% · raw score 73%
What redditors said (10 of 11)
Cant worry too much, I just love the place
Back in the day, I remember being told Wikipedia wasn't a reliable source because it was community edited, but my argument was it gave sources you could follow back to verify.
Instead, one eventually gets a feel for when Wikipedia can be trusted, and when not. And precisely that feel is now going out of the window, because if there's anything LLMs excel at, it's selling bullshit as gold
Wikipedia: Smaller than you'd think once it's bundled up. I think the last dump of the English language site, including (admittedly low-res) images was only around 90GB.
As is it's looking like Wikipedia might end up blocking UK residents, sites relating to substance misuse like drug rehab/alcohol etc get blocked.
you should get hard drives and start archiving stuff on websites such as wikipedia, wikipedias other websites like wikibooks and wikiversity, Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, libretexts, MIT opencourseware, project Gutenberg, NASA images and videos, data.gov, congress.gov, supreme Court.go, pixabay,freesound, public domain movies, and archive.org.
I think it's a good set of knowledge to take into account kind of like Wikipedia or stack exchange, but don't just copy code word for word and drop it in there without vetting anything.
I can now officially say it’s easier to download all of Wikipedia than Call of Duty.
Wikipedia is on the list as well!
A copy of Wikipedia is a good start.
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