I'm am exactly the wrong amount of tired right now. I've got an idea in my head that will not go away, and I want to sleep. The perfect time for neither good ideas nor sleep. Exactly the wrong amount of tired.
Anyway the idea is something from Scott Adams. A website that tracks political issues point and counterpoint with weight given to each point by the expertise of the people making the argument and the number of others with knowledge of the field who agree with them. I just keep thinking to myself would that type of knowledge influence us at all? I mean really we have debates on evolution and global warming. When there is consensus by all the people who understand the science that these things are going on. Not that we know what to do about global warming, or how evolution can be used best but still this isn't trivial.
It's not about disseminating information. Everything has been laid out in journals online and in books and television. It's about persuasion and explaination. I'm not sure that getting authorities is enough and I hate polls.
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