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Wow, last thing I figured is my answer would be given by someone else. I love the negative results answer. I'd also: Endow a non-partisan original-reporting o
by ericb 13y ago
Wow, last thing I figured is my answer would be given by someone else. I love the negative results answer.
I'd also:
Endow a non-partisan original-reporting only, no-pr, news site with no sponsors to bias results, ever. Now that all news is corporate sponsored in various ways, we need alternatives.
Use part to endow a rationalist organization dedicated entirely to the spreading of rationality as determined by the results of research on how to most effectively spread rationality.
Create a cost-effective ethically acceptable platform for testing drugs and theories on a human-ish system. Basically this would be an attempt to strap a rocket to modern day testing and drug discovery by making it as effortless as it would be if you could put humans in various conditions without ethics or harm considerations.
See if there's a way to use my money to undo the corrupting supreme court Citizens United decisions and decisions about Super PACs.
- syncerr 13y agoUnfortunately, if you wanted your new "liberal" news network to affect a larger audience you'd need a think-tank to help "propagandize", else you'd be discredited by other motivated interests.
- gregcohn 13y agoI'm extremely curious to know exactly what about the comment you're replying to sparked the "liberal" label. I don't want to create a political discussion here, but it seemed like the reply was taking pains to suggest it would be neutral.
- syncerr 13y ago1. What is the political leaning of the national news network who stands to lose the most viewers if you were to take a percentage of everyone's audience? Fox [1]. Will they call your network neutral? 2. There seems to be an inordinate amount of money pouring into campaigns to discredit the sort of thing you might focus on (e.g., climate change[2], which is seen as a liberal idea[3]). 3. Less seriously, it was sub-text'd from Colbert's "Reality has a well-known liberal bias." [4] _______ [1] http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/cable-a-growing-medium-reaching-its-ceiling/4_cable_only_msnbc_grows_in_prime_time/ http://stateofthemedia.org/2013/cable-a-growing-medium-reach... (2012) [2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-c... [3] http://www.conservapedia.com/Global_warming http://www.conservapedia.com/Global_warming [4] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberal_bias http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberal_bias