Quote of the Day | 0114
Defenders of traditional authority will object to the relativism of all this, but relativism is all we’ve got — the rise of the scientific method has taken away certainty and replaced it with nothing but process and probability. An authority isn’t a person or institution who is always right — ain’t no such animal. An authority is a person or institution who has a process for lowering the likelihood that they are wrong to acceptably low levels.
Clay Shirky, ‘On Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary’
The Atlantic invited eight thinkers to comment on Wikipedia’s anniversary.
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