> "My normal position is fairly anti-government, but.... Targeted at people who are really quite clever.... It'd be nice to have a centralised, low bandwidth we

> "My normal position is fairly anti-government, but.... Targeted at people who are really quite clever.... It'd be nice to have a centralised, low bandwidth well moderated information source for the smartest 5-10% of people" that only reveals ego and information blindness. it's hard to triangulate toward the truth, much less a plan, with that kind of blindness, no matter the composition of expertise. smart people may know more of their little patch of elephant, but make no mistake, they know nothing of the whole elephant. it's so easy to miss massive swaths of the elephant because you're too smart to ask the simplest questions first. luckily, an easy first-order fix is to not dictate the composition of the audience asking questions. pick at random. then you'll get a truer picture of the bewildering complexity of the elephant and a better sense of where to take that (and a truer picture of the information holes between the panelists to fill for next time). besides, what you ask for is simply the standard academic seminar at any major research university.