how will more perfect address questions of bias, particularly with regard to controversial topics?
Rather than using the terminology of “objectivity”, we prefer the concepts of “fairness and accuracy.” It is “fair and accurate,” for example, to say that most climate scientists believe human activities are contributing to global warming, so there is no need to take a “neutral point of view” with regard to this question. Of course, bias is an issue in any information system, but more perfect users will constitute a community of peers whose combined influence helps compensate for the bias of single individuals. Systemic bias, e.g. due to a contributor’s background or demographic, will be overcome by a variety of measures to promote equity of viewpoints. By its very nature more perfect is bound to deal with controversial topics. However, the Wikipedia system upon which it is based has shown considerable ability to produce articles that examine controversial topics in a fair and accurate way. Indeed, some of the most controversial topics yield the best articles.
