[ExI] Wikipedia again

[Giulio Prisco]

Direct link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ray_Kurzweil#Hofstadter_criticism
Please please add your voice here and say loud and clear that the
quote must be removed immediately

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all those who want to help. First task:
>
> Wikipedia reports libel against Hans Moravec and Ray Kurzweil: ""dog
> excrements" (for those who need a translation, that means dogshit).
> This is far too much, please add your voice here and say loud and
> clear that the quote must be removed immediately:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ray_Kurzweil#Hofstadter_criticism
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The deplorable status of Wikipedia pages related to futurism and
>> transhumanism has been discussed many times. Many active Wikipedia
>> editors, and especially the most zealot ones, seem biased against our
>> ideas and inject (at least) a slight anti-transhumanist bias in
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> In the past, sometimes we have managed to correct some mistakes and
>> force some of the anti-transhumanist editors to be more reasonable,
>> but it has taken a lot of work, energy and endurance, as many of you
>> will remember.
>>
>> I remember that we started some kind of Wikipedia task force, some
>> good results. I think we should revive the task force. The recent
>> remarkable growth of Wikipedia (which I am very happy to see) results
>> in Wikipedia pages being usually the very first result of google
>> searches.
>>
>> Ideas anyone? Who wishes to help?