A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*

Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when

An LLM just generates text

26.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 4033    🔁 1222    💬 60    📌 38

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 18166    🔁 6775    💬 551    📌 284

People who say things like "we achieved racial equality through MLK doing peaceful protests" tend to ignore three major facts:
1. We never achieved racial equality.
2. There were literally hundreds of violent race riots in the 60s.
3. They killed MLK. They fucking shot that dude anyway. Come on.

11.06.2025 01:20 — 👍 647    🔁 183    💬 17    📌 0

Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention but I never thought a dictator could be so whiny

19.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 8495    🔁 887    💬 357    📌 54

A machine monitors an elderly Cathy's heartbeat. She thinks "I'm dying. I can feel it all slip away. And I know what comes next. Chemicals will flood my brain and wreak havoc with my memories. I will live my final moments in fantasy. But it's not a fantasy.

Because everything that we are can be reduced to just that... chemicals and memories. SO this is all really happening... This IS reality. My family. My friends. My love.

They're all here. They are safe. THey are loved. And they love me. And that is the comedy of it all. We are all granted acces to the kingdom of heaven. All hopes fulfilled. All sins forgiven. Because that is the tender mercy of whatever force created us.

We are built to know the eternal and for that eternity to feel like no time at all. Cathy fades into space. The blackness of the cosmos reflected in her dying eyes. She cries. She closes her eyes, says "ack' and gently passes into oblivion.

The Death of Cathy

04.10.2024 13:15 — 👍 2532    🔁 494    💬 88    📌 41

I don’t believe that everything happens FOR a reason but I do believe that everything happens BECAUSE OF a reason and that reason is baryogenesis, the process by which the imbalance of matter and antimatter was established in the early universe and for which we currently have no accepted explanation

04.09.2024 01:26 — 👍 3036    🔁 471    💬 87    📌 43

Saying that everyone has to shut up about an active genocide because it is ruining the vibes of your political movement is so nihilistic that I really can't believe any human who lives and breaths could even imagine thinking it.

24.08.2024 05:23 — 👍 169    🔁 33    💬 0    📌 1

Using AI to write science explainers is bad for SO MANY REASONS relating to accuracy and content theft but also because effective science communication is not about just arranging information on a page, but allowing the science to create a connection between people, the basis of which is trust

14.08.2024 11:49 — 👍 1346    🔁 382    💬 31    📌 11

should I use Cara?

05.06.2024 02:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Mars will always be much worse place to live than Earth even if we experience a horrific planetary apocalypse” is a true statement but it’s only an argument against humans ever going there if you’ve been listening to some deeply unserious people

13.04.2024 13:24 — 👍 649    🔁 117    💬 24    📌 0