Wikipedia et Hayek

[José]

La lecture de Friedrich von Hayek à la base de l'idée du Wikipedia :

There are a lot of bad things said about Wikipedia, the ninth most-visited destination on the internet. An encyclopedia that anyone can edit, critics argue, is one that is vulnerable to endless mistakes. Such criticisms have been raised by skeptics since Wikipedia's creation in 2001. Despite the critics, Wikipedia has grown to include 8.2 million articles in 253 different languages. The English Wikipedia alone includes nearly two million articles, and has a word-length fifteen times that of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Wikipedia is the single largest encyclopedia ever assembled, having long since surpassed the Yongle Encyclopedia of 15th century China.

The man credited with founding Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales--known to Wikipedians as "Jimbo"--was a finance major at Auburn University when he read "The Use of Knowledge in Society," a now-famous essay written by Austro-libertarian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek. The essay argues that prices in the market represent a spontaneous order that results from the interaction of individuals with diverse wants, allowing them to cooperate to achieve complex goals. According to a June 2007 Reason magazine interview, this insight of Hayek's is what led Wales to found Wikipedia. The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales? "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

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http://profatusveritas.com/2007/09/what-is…is-it-good.html

[melt_core]

In the past year, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit," has been cited four times as often as the Encyclopedia Britannica in judicial opinions, and the number is rapidly growing. In just two years, YouTube has become a household word and one of the world's most successful Web sites. Such astounding growth and success demonstrate society's unstoppable movement toward shared production of information, as diverse groups of people in multiple fields pool their knowledge and draw from each other's resources.

Developing one of the most important ideas of the 20th century, Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek attacked socialist planning on the grounds that no planner could possibly obtain the "dispersed bits" of information held by individual members of society. Hayek insisted that the knowledge of individuals, taken as a whole, is far greater than that of any commission or board, however diligent and expert. he magic of the system of prices and of economic markets is that they incorporate a great deal of diffuse knowledge.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…7022301596.html

A long time ago, in a more aristocratic era, Henry David Thoreau lamented that "the mass never comes up to the standard of its best member." But in the age of the Internet, people are more inclined to believe that the decentralized efforts of large groups can be better than the work of experts. Wikipedia has edged out traditional encyclopedias; eBay can value your car better than a local used-car dealer. And politicians have a special reason to respect the wisdom of markets. Amateur traders on the University of Iowa's political futures market predict elections more accurately than professional pollsters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte…7030401048.html

[Jesrad]

Et pendant ce temps, les abrutis ordinaires continuent de dire que "si on laisse tout le monde choisir sa propre assurance de santé ou son propre plan de retraite, la couverture santé et les retraites seront moins bonnes", "si on laisse tout le monde porter une arme, tout le monde sera moins bien protégé de la violance", "si on laisse tout le monde choisir ses propres règles, il n'y aura plus de règles", etc…

Ignorance totale de l'émergence.

[Apollon]

La lecture de Friedrich von Hayek à la base de l'idée du Wikipedia :

http://profatusveritas.com/2007/09/what-is…is-it-good.html

Excellent ! Merci infiniment.

[phantom_opera]

Très intéressant à savoir! La lecture d'Hayek produit toujours quelque chose chez les gens