Some very brief thoughts on decentralisation and think-tanks.
I'm a big proponent of free speech and I've found that often there's a lack of diverse opinion represented in the media and university. I recently began a platform (www.kazingram.com) that attempts to solve some of this problem by seeking to fairly represent both sides of debate, but I wanted a place where people could organically discuss ideas on a high level.
Over the past year and a bit, I've started to see the benefits of decentralisation. So, it made me wonder whether it would be possible to have something like a think-tank that is decentralised, where the level of discussion is high but at the same time not exclusive. I say this because I find that places that allow for a (somewhat) free discussion, the discussions often lead to a shouting match or name calling. Prime examples of this being twitter and facebook. Of course, this is not to say that all discussions that take place on those platforms are like that.
Back to the decentralised think-tank. This decentralised think-tank will work on all areas of human knowledge--science, philosophy, history, law, policy, and et al. The only limitation here is the human mind.
Imagine then this platform where you have access to cutting-edge research (if you're a big physics person), or you're discussing with a scholar on their research, or you can get involve in a topic you're interested in and at the end of the month or year this group puts together a conference on developments and improvements within the conversation--all self-funded with no external funding like the government et al.
Or, say, there is a brilliant scholar who you think is doing tremendous work but their time, efforts, and skill put into their speciality does not correlate to with their book sale and grants they receive. Imagine that you're both part of this de-centralised think-tank. You could personally fund their research and know that you won't be scammed and will get your moneny's worth. (Something like ICOs) This is would something like a smart contract.
This decentralised think-tank (DTT) would be able to influence public-policy by the fact that many of a nation's citizens will be part of the think-tank. Not only that, this DTT would be immutable to human corruption and bias "idea" curation since no one person controls the feeds, groups, the funding, discussions.
So I'm experimenting this on LinkedIn groups to see if there are people on LinkedIn (the business world) who'd be interested. If you're on linkedin it's called (De)Centre for Rational Dialogue.
If you have thoughts or questions, please let me know!
