>What we REALLY need are informed consumers What we really need is a friendly post-singularity AGI, or an omnipotent omnibenevolent god that directly and notic

>What we REALLY need are informed consumers What we really need is a friendly post-singularity AGI, or an omnipotent omnibenevolent god that directly and noticeably runs the government. But, we can't get those. What if we can't get more informed consumers either? Informing yourself is hard work, and there's no clear way to do it (see: multitudes of bullshit everywhere on everything). Most people aren't wouldn't know how to do it even if they 1. knew they were lacking understanding, 2. wanted to change that enough to put in hours a week of research. I mean, in theory if you go talk to people about problem X they'll be "more informed consumers", but your evangelism doesn't scale, and human nature won't magically improve any more than it did the last 2000 years of hoping it would. What if we can't get more informed consumers?