Twitter Experiment — Suppressed cancer cures?
Over the past month, we’ve been preparing a little experiment —
We built a clone of Ideamarket that’s Twitter-only: no crypto features at all.
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All “posts” are Tweets linked from Twitter
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All you need is a Twitter account.
Now you can easily invite anyone with a Twitter account to express their opinions on an Ideamarket-style interface. Quickly build credibility for disruptive ideas, “by petition.” (This should sound familiar.)
The benefit comes from concentrating a lot of ratings on the same Tweet. This way, we can aggregate a lot of people’s opinions, the top supporting evidence for and against, and a lot of people’s opinions on each piece of evidence, all in the same place.
Example: Suppressed cancer cures
I’m suggesting a tweet saying “Many cures for cancer have been found” as a starting point for our experiment. Here’s why I think this is a good one to start with:
It’s a scientific matter — It should be fairly straightforward to argue one way or the other.
It’s disruptive — If it’s true, it would take the FDA decades to legitimize it. A well-chosen handful of Twitter influencers might be able to accelerate the process using Ideamarket.
It’s good news — If it’s true, it’s really good, and really matters.
No matter your level of expertise on the topic, Sign in with Twitter and Rate this tweet: https://twitter.ideamarket.io/post/63b763650707941c5643cc4c
(Why “no matter your level of expertise”? Because as humans, we have no choice but to make our own judgments about everything. Instead of trying to override this innate freedom using authoritative credentials, Ideamarket aims to make it easier to found our inevitable personal judgments on a well-organized and utterly uncensored cache of evidence, including a track record of whose opinions have proven the most useful in hindsight — regardless of their credentials.)
Cheers,
—Mike