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Just a bunch of made up arguments against made up arguments. Should have stuck with math.

The essay you linked doesn't at all convey that Wikipedia is cancer, in fact it does somewhat the opposite. A shame the title is so inflammatory and doesn't at all reflect the content.

It's in fact a seriously amazing essay, thank you for sharing it here. The 2006 Jaron Lanier essay, in addition with the 13 responses (including from Cory Doctorow and Jimmy Wales) is a golden nugget of internet history, and a snapshot of what people believed would be the future of the internet (oh boy, with 15 years of insight, there is quite a lot to say)

Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a widespread apotheosis of the hive mind. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.

Digital Maoism? Can you point me to the Jimmy Wales mass line?