I earnestly believe that an upgrade to truth-seekers’ ability to find and scrutinise information, to build and share fuller pictures of topics at hand, can be ‘infectious’
Have you tried to steel-man arguments for the idea that an upgrade to truth-seekers’ ability to find and scrutinize information, to build and share fuller pictures of topics at hand, would not grow popular?
This is probably the biggest concern. I’m not centrally expecting universal uptake. Base rates aren’t great, though nonzero (including recently: Wikipedia, stackoverflow, elicit, reddit kinda, chatgpt kinda). There are a thousand ignored tools for every popular one. But there are truly new software potentials right now, and really great stuff could see wide uptake.
Failing very widespread uptake, targeted distribution among those who have existing demand and discernment for well-grounded, full-picture background research is a satisfactory fallback (and perhaps beachhead).
Have you tried to steel-man arguments for the idea that an upgrade to truth-seekers’ ability to find and scrutinize information, to build and share fuller pictures of topics at hand, would not grow popular?
This is probably the biggest concern. I’m not centrally expecting universal uptake. Base rates aren’t great, though nonzero (including recently: Wikipedia, stackoverflow, elicit, reddit kinda, chatgpt kinda). There are a thousand ignored tools for every popular one. But there are truly new software potentials right now, and really great stuff could see wide uptake.
Failing very widespread uptake, targeted distribution among those who have existing demand and discernment for well-grounded, full-picture background research is a satisfactory fallback (and perhaps beachhead).