Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJimmy Wales: belief
18 Nov 2020 Conversations with Tyler Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
“People are friendly. It’s an openness of culture, which I think has served me very well with Wikipedia because I’m basically just friendly to people, and that’s actually very helpful.”
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- 18 Nov 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Why? Well, Huntsville is a really interesting place. I grew up in Alabama, which is not known generally to be a super high-tech place. But Huntsville, Alabama, is where the NASA scientists are headquartered. They’re at the Space & Rocket Center, which means that, for a time in the early ’60s, Huntsville apparently had the highest number of PhDs per capita of any place in the US. Huntsville is quite a high-tech town. Yet, at least for me, what I feel was important as well was not just the high-tech piece of it, but it is Southern in a good way. People are very polite. People are friendly. It’s an openness of culture, which I think has served me very well with Wikipedia because I’m basically just friendly to people, and that’s actually very helpful. So underrated. Transhumanism — overrated or underrated?…
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