XAi is soon to release a rewrite of Wikipedia by Grok. This will make Grok the first entity since Aristotle to interact all topics. Which is a cool feat; I sense there is something really profound about this though.

First off the idea of forking Wikipedia rather than contributing to it is interesting and I think reflects the reality that getting all people to agree on what the truth is isn't possible. The effort spent debating people is much better spent writing on a fork. If people are interested in exploring other world views they can do so at their leisure. Plus you will be able to ask an AI to read every fork of an article and write a version of it that integrates all perspectives in a way tailored to you. In the future getting your thoughts out there will be much more important than convincing people that they are correct.

But the more interesting idea is of outputting a complete world view. Grokipedia will enable us to see how Grok thinks. If every person did this it would make Psyops impossible since any attempt to make it seem like lots of people hold an opinion that they don't will be easily disproven. It would also make it much easier for politicians to serve their constituents since all the information they need about them is on hand ready for an AI to synthesise into something comprehensible.

Now let's deal with the obvious problem, which is that we aren't all AI datacenters capable of spending hundreds of GWhs of energy writing our thoughts down. The solution to this is really very simple though. You just write about the things you care about and redirect the rest to someone you respect. By default this would be randomly assigned, noise tends to cancel so it's equivalent to not assigning anyone, but assigning a random person rather than no-one will encourage people to engage with the system at least briefly. And there would be no need to limit it to just one delegate, it could be a sorted list. Since most people will stick to writing about their specialty the order you put them into this list probably won't matter.

This system would end up being a non-ephemeral version of twitter. It would encourage deep thought over the long term rather than the constant noise from people eager to use the latest trend word in some witty way¹. A follower doesn't mean much on twitter. But ending up on someone's deferral list would always be meaningful. Someone who ends up on a lot of deferral lists would hold a lot of proven power.

Grokipedia would also be the first social network for intellectuals. Since you can write about your interests as much as you like without feeling like you're performing for a theatre that's either empty or expects you to stick to one thing. You're just writing for yourself and people will only see it if they search for it. Then when you're done it's trivial for Grok to find other people like you. If you're recruiting for a company you can ask it to find people who write about certain domains and get it to sort them by how similar they are to members of the existing team.