Uberfact
There are a number of fun things about a sketch of Uberfact: the ultimate social verifier. The first is that the post could be written without mentioning distributed revision control. The second is that the proposed project is a nice would-be example of political desires sublimated entirely into creating useful and voluntary tools. Third, Mencius Moldbug is a fun writer.
Something like Uberfact should absolutely be built, though I’m far from certain it would hit a sweet spot. It may be too decentralized or too centralized or both. All points from enhancing Wikipedia to the Semantic Web (with Uberfact somewhere between) are complementary and well worth pursuing, particularly if that pursuit displaces malinvestment in politics.
Relatedly, but no time to explain why:
- Imagine decentralizing Wikipedia with Codeville
- Possibility of a git-based fully distributed Wikipedia
- Google Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
- Most important software project
- Free software and social revolution
- We R Independent
February 20th, 2008 at 13:42
Stop distracting me with things like ‘git-based wikipedia.’ The ability to fork contentious articles to provide M(ultiple)POV where necessary would be… oy, so huge.
July 14th, 2008 at 22:06
[...] modified source of network applications a natural part of deployment (greatly eased by the rise of distributed version control), and convincing users and service providers that it is in their interest to expect and provide [...]