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Kalle Pihlajasaari's avatar

I used to help solve problems on SubStack for people but stepped back when they went woke.

To attract larger numbers to the platform it needs to have some tangible benefit.

Find a way to harness all the advertising money that the capitalists are still throwing around and you may have a chance. Picture a platform that displays curated adverts to people who get PAID when they see an advert, not the platform but the user.

Right now your laudable idea is lost in the noise floor because it has no immediate incentive. Create a way that turns the tables on the advertising systems and you may be onto a winner. The model can then be used in all sorts of ways to enable the common man.

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Kaiser Basileus's avatar

People solve problems better in groups because sometimes other perspectives are valuable, particularly to avoid missing anything relevant. That entails access to diversity but it does not imply anyone always has something relevant to say or that everyone sometimes has something relevant to say.

Expertise includes having spent more time considering the facets of an issue and must be held above even equally interested and competent people, just as one example. In short, meritocracy is superior to democracy, so we must not think of any legitimate way of crowd-sourcing knowledge as being equitable.

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And now here's the necessarily true philosophy you must accept of you honestly value knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, because it is true: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ASywAfBAVrQ

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Even the best ideas will lead you in the wrong direction if you don't have your priorities straight, and Truth is a prerequisite for all non-arbitrary goals.

All problems are resource distribution problems.

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