A Decentralized Approach to "Truth About" Presentations

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I have an idea that I need some collaborators for to do a trial run. I, like many of you, really enjoy the Truth About presentations that FDR does. They are a great resource for getting introduced to complex and challenging topics and I want to make some myself since there are so many interesting things that people I interact daily just have no idea about. However, there are two issues that I find myself running into--time and technical knowledge limitations--that both play off of each other. There are only so many hours in the day, and since I've got a day job, that eats up a significant amount of time for side projects. With little available time, I'm constrained by what I already have knowledge about because of how long it takes to do decent research. However, this only has to be a problem if I am the only variable here. I'm sure that many of you are in a similar situation where you have some knowledge about a topic that you'd like to share, but it is incomplete due to time demands. If we took a Wikipedia style approach to making a presentation, we could fill in the gaps of each other's knowledge.

For example, if I'm ever talking to people about cryptocurrency, it's mostly just a lot of explaining the basics since the average person has no idea about it other than the price. As for myself, I can explain its significance from a moral, political, and economic ground, but the technical aspects of blockchain are beyond me. If I tried to make a presentation, I could explain the first three, but the last one I could not. Since the goal would be to make a presentation so accessible that you'd be comfortable sharing it with your grandma, all aspects have to be covered to make a credible case. I can explain the economics behind why you want to own a deflationary asset, but if I tried to explain what ring signatures are or how your funds are protected from hackers, it would sound like voodoo because that's about my level of understanding. But, if someone here had that specific knowledge, we could fill in the gaps of each others knowledge and thereby make a much more credible and compelling presentation. However, this is just a one off example. The real significance here is as a platform. By using a reputation system, the thousands of us here collectively have a tremendous amount of untapped specific information that we can aggregate into something truly useful for spreading around the internet.

Just for example, during the last call in show, Stefan mentioned how most British sailor's died from scurvy and not battle. That seemed shocking so I put it into google to find out more. One of the first results I found was some statistics about the revolutionary war. Apparently, of the 18k British soldiers that died in the conflict, only about 1,000 were from actual combat, and the rest were from diseases like scurvy. That's completely mind blowing! In all the years that I've studied history, I've never heard anything about this. A truth about war presentation on this would be incredibly fascinating, and would be possible with a platform that collates people with niche information.

So, if anyone is interested in testing this out, reply to this thread and we can get the ball rolling.