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Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory (www.newyorker.com)
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One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it's readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

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[–] [S] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The way it's usually treated by laymen, as here, Sapir-Whorf theory is pseudoscience, and you're not even really talking about language but about information. As for Wittgenstein, you're grossly banalising his work.

This is not even hidden

Yeah. Really makes you think...

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