In @balajis thenetworkstate.com there is a line about “history as written to the ledger vs history written by the victors”, that made me curious: Wikipedia edit wars are a thing, but the edit history assuages me. Are there cases where histories have been wiped by victors?
It isn’t trivial to modify the history of a wiki, but it is easy compared to a blockchain. Arguments for the robustness of a blockchain look good with lots of examples of sketchy changes to conventional historic ledges. I’m wondering specifically about Wikipedia.
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Thx 4 the Lex talk. Random thought: auto-generative smart contracts on a crowd-sourced, detailed public ledger could be our fastest route to an #agi. 1 blockchain = total organism learning and memory. Self-updating smart contracts as rules like we see in CNS patterning & LTP/LTD
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Absolutely, you should look into pre colonial invasions where religious sites of some countries were wiped out and replaced and whole libraries curating art, cultural artefacts and books were burnt down.
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Does the #Newworldorder golf? Like to golf with you John, I feel we would be buds👊
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Not so much "wiped" but definitely "modified" -- check out "leyenda negra" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Leg…
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Since the world has one shared information base now, if some victorious system did erase some history, how would we know? We can study it in history before societies had shared information bases. Probably all religions' origin stories are examples x.com/nirsd/status/1…
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Since the world has one shared information base now, if some victorious system did erase some history, how would we know? We can study it in history before societies had shared information bases. Probably all religions' origin stories are examples x.com/nirsd/status/1…
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis “Histories wiped by the victors” is the default, and exceptions like Wikipedia are rare. It’s not just explicit actions like the burning of the Library of Alexandria — it’s the institutions with power preserving their stories while the others are left to fade away.
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Rome did a good job wiping Carthaginian history, leaving little more than the ghost of Hannibal.
@ID_AA_Carmack @balajis Yep, there's a feature for it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…